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Table of Contents:

• 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.

Author/Creator:

White, G. Edward

Contributors:

NetLibrary, Inc.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The American judicial tradition: profiles of leading American judges [by White, G.E.]

Subjects:

Judges — United States — Biography

United States Supreme Court — History

United States Supreme Court

Judges

United States

Genres:

Biographies

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 477-582) and index.
Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2007. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries.

Physical Description:

xxx, 592 pages ; 24 cm

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

KF8744 .W5 2007eb

ISBNs:

9781435614185 (electronic bk.)
1435614186 (electronic bk.)

OCLC Numbers:

184900951