Justice and empathy : toward a constitutional ideal /

"An impassioned argument for the role of courts as a moral and social agent for change and protecting the vulnerable ... The Supreme Court long considered its highest mission to be the protection of individual liberty from intrusion by government, but the court shifted its focus to social and e...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Burt, Robert A., 1939-2015 (Author)
Other Authors: Iacobucci, Frank (Editor), Post, Robert, 1947- (writer of foreword.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
United States. > Supreme Court.
États-Unis. > Supreme Court.
United States. > Supreme Court
Judicial power > United States.
Constitutional law > Social aspects > United States.
Political questions and judicial power > United States.
Sociological jurisprudence.
Pouvoir judiciaire > États-Unis.
Droit constitutionnel > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Politique et pouvoir judiciaire > États-Unis.
Sociologie juridique.
LAW > Civil Procedure.
LAW > Legal Services.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Judicial Branch.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > American Government > Judicial Branch.
Constitutional law > Social aspects
Judicial power
Political questions and judicial power
Sociological jurisprudence
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / by Frank Iacobucci
  • A living truth
  • Judicial power to command
  • All that is solid
  • This word "reason"
  • The healthiest possible soul
  • The democratic path
  • Enslaving criminals
  • Respecting same-sex relations
  • Abortion : private and public considerations
  • Race relations : between emancipation and subjugation
  • Ordering moral deliberations.

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