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Brandeis and the progressive constitution : Erie, the judicial power, and the politics of the federal courts in twentieth-century America /
"This book focuses on Supreme Court justice Louis D. Brandeis and his opinion in the 1938 landmark case Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, which resulted in a significant relocation of power from federal to state courts. Distinguished legal historian Edward A. Purcell, Jr., shows how the Erie case...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2000]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. I : The federal judicial power and progressive reform
- 1. The premise of an age : law politics, and the federal courts, 1877-1937
- 2. Expanding the federal judicial power : Justice David J. Brewer and the "general" common law
- 3. Progressive judicial reform after World War I : diversity jurisdiction and the labor injunction
- pt. II : Brandeis, Erie, and the complexities of constitutional judging
- 4. Litigant strategies and judicial dynamics
- 5. Brandeis : the judge as human
- 6. "Defects, social" : the progressive as judicial craftsman
- 7. "Defects, political" : the progressive as constitutional architect
- pt. III : History and the dynamics of meaning in an age of transition
- 9. Henry M. Hart, Jr., and the power of transforming vision
- 10. Cold War politics and neutral principles : the federal judicial power in a New Age
- 11. To century's end : meaning, politics, and the constitutional enterprise.