The American Judicial Tradition : Profiles of Leading American Judges: Profiles of Leading American JudgesOxford University Press, USA, 1988 M12 1 - 576 pages Now available in a newly revised and updated second edition, this highly-acclaimed volume presents a series of portraits of the most famous appellate judges in American history from John Marshall to the Burger court. G. Edward White traces the American judicial tradition through sketches of the careers and contributions of such significant judges as John Marshall, Joseph Story, Roger Taney, Stephen Field, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Brandeis, Charles Evans Hughes, Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, Earl Warren, William Brennan, and Sandra Day O'Connor. This expanded edition contains a new preface, an updated bibliographical note, and two new chapters, one on Justice William O. Douglas and one on the Burger Court. |
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... American judicial tradition . Bibliography : p . Includes index . 1. Judges — United States — Biography . 2. United States . Supreme Court — History . I. Title . KF8744.W5 1988 347.73'2634 88-17914 ISBN 0-19-505726-0 ISBN 0-19-505685 ...
... American judicial tradition . Bibliography : p . Includes index . 1. Judges — United States — Biography . 2. United States . Supreme Court — History . I. Title . KF8744.W5 1988 347.73'2634 88-17914 ISBN 0-19-505726-0 ISBN 0-19-505685 ...
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
John Marshall and the Genesis of the Tradition | 7 |
The Judicial Function and Property | 35 |
Roger Taney and the Limits of Judicial Power | 64 |
Miller Bradley Field and the Reconstructed Constitution | 84 |
Political Ideologies Professional Norms and the State Judiciary | 109 |
The Precursor | 129 |
The Tradition at the Close of the Nineteenth Century | 146 |
Ironies of the Chief Justiceship | 200 |
The Dilemmas of Robert | 230 |
The Dialectic of Freedom | 251 |
Rationality and Intuition in the Process of Judging Roger | 292 |
Frankfurter Black Warren | 317 |
William O Douglas and the Ambiguities | 369 |
The Burger Court and the Idea of Transition in the American | 421 |
The Tradition and the Future | 460 |
Holmes Brandeis and the Origins of Judicial Liberalism | 150 |
The Sources of Judicial Notoriety | 178 |
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