Cardozo on the law : including the nature of the judicial process, the growth of the law, the paradoxes of legal science, Law and literature / by Benjamin N. Cardozo.

Birmingham, Ala. : Legal Classics Library, 1982.

Special edition

12857

Law -- Philosophy.

Justice.

Sociology.

Jurisprudence.

The nature of the judicial process

Lecture I: Introduction. The method of philosophy.

Lecture II: The methods of history, tradition and sociology

Lecture III: The method of sociology. The judge as a legislator

Lecture IV: Adherence to precedent. The subconscious element in the judicial process. Conclusion

The growth of the law

I. Introduction. The need of a scientific restatement as an aid to certainty

II. The need of a philosophy of law as an aid to growth. The problems of legal philosophy. The meaning and genesis of law

III. The growth of law, and the methods of judging

IV. The function and the ends of law

V. Function and ends (continued). Conclusion.

The paradoxes of legal science

I. Introduction. rest and motion. Stability and progress

II. The meaning of justice. The science of values

III. The equilibration of interests. Cause and effect. The individual and society. Liberty and government

IV. Liberty and government. Conclusion.

Law and literature : and other essays and addresses

Law and literature

A ministry of justice

What medicine can do for law

The American Law Institute

The home of the law

The game of the law and its prizes

The comradeship of the bar.

Includes booklet "Cardozo on the law: notes from the editors", by Thomas G. Barnes. This is bound separately in "Legal Classics Library: notes from the editors" vol 1.

Includes bibliographical references.

Reprint. Originally published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1921, The nature of the judicial process.

Reprint. Originally published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1924, The growth of the law.

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Columbia University Press, 1928, The paradoxes of legal science.

Law and literature : and other essays and addresses New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1931, Law and literature : and other essays and addresses.

180, 145, 142, 190 pages ; 22 cm