The American judicial tradition : profiles of leading American judges / Edward G. White.

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

3rd edition

26977

United States. -- Supreme Court -- History.

Judges -- Biography -- United States.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 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 dialetic 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.

Table of contents and index are taken from the published work with the permission of the publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780195139631

xxx, 592 p. ; 24 cm