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The American judicial tradition : profiles of leading American judges /

In this revised third edition of a classic in American jurisprudence, G. Edward White updates his series of portraits of the most famous appellate judges in American history from John Marshall to Oliver W. Holmes to Warren E. Burger, with a new chapter on the Rehnquist Court. White traces the develo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: White, G. Edward (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Edición:3rd ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • John Marshall and the genesis of the tradition
  • Kent, Story, and Shaw : the judicial function and property rights
  • Roger Taney and the limits of judicial power
  • Political ideologies, professional norms, and the state judiciary in the late nineteenth century : Cooley and Doe
  • John Marshall Harlan I : the precursor
  • The tradition at the close of the nineteenth century
  • Holmes, Brandeis, and the origins of judicial liberalism
  • Hughes and Stone : ironies of the chief justiceship
  • Personal versus impersonal judging : the dilemmas of Robert Jackson
  • Cardozo, Learned Hand, and Frank : the dialectic of freedom and constraint
  • Rationality and intuition in the process of judging : Roger Traynor
  • The mosaic of the Warren Court : Frankfurter, Black, Warren, and Harlan
  • The anti-judge: William O. Douglas and the ambiguities of individuality
  • The Burger Court and the idea of "transition" in the American judicial tradition
  • The unexpectedness of the Rehnquist Court
  • The tradition and the future : a summary.