The case of Rose Bird : gender, politics, and the California courts /

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"Rose Elizabeth Bird was forty years old when in 1977 Governor Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown chose her to become California's first female supreme court chief justice. Appointed to a court with a stellar reputation for being the nation's most progressive, Bird became a lightning r...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Cairns, Kathleen A., 1946- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]
Sujets:
Bird, Rose Elizabeth.
Bird, Rose Elizabeth
California. > Supreme Court.
California. > Supreme Court
Since 1951
Judges > California > Biography.
Political questions and judicial power > California.
Politique et pouvoir judiciaire > Californie.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Women.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Lawyers & Judges.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Judges
Political questions and judicial power
Politics and government
California > Politics and government > 1951-
Californie > Politique et gouvernement > 1951-
California
Biographies
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • The first woman
  • A woman in charge
  • The most innovative judiciary
  • Becoming chief justice
  • Hail to the chief
  • Disorder in the court
  • The politics of death
  • Big business v. Rose Bird
  • The people v. Rose Bird
  • High Courts and political footballs
  • Paying for justice.

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