The American Judicial Tradition: Profiles of Leading American Judges / Edition 3

by G. Edward White

Overview

In this revised third edition of a classic in American jurisprudence, G. Edward White updates his series of portraits of the most famous appellate judges in American history from John Marshall to Oliver W. Holmes to Warren E. Burger, with a new chapter on the Rehnquist Court. White traces the development of the American judicial tradition through biographical sketches of the careers and contributions of these renowned judges. In this updated edition, he argues that the Rehnquist Court's approach to constitutional interpretation may have ushered in a new stage in the American judicial tradition. The update also includes a new preface and revised bibliographic note.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195139631
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/11/2007
Edition description:	3RD
Pages:	624
Product dimensions:	9.18(w) x 6.58(h) x 1.33(d)

About the Author

G. Edward White is University Professor and David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia. He is author of several works of biography and law that include the award-winning Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and most recently, Alger Hiss's Looking Glass Wars.

Table of Contents

Preface to Third EditionPreface to Expanded EditionPrefaceIntroduction1. John Marshall and the Genesis of the Tradition2. Kent, Story, and Shaw: The Judicial Function and Property Rights3. Roger Taney and the Limits of Judicial Power4. Political Ideologies, Professional Norms, and the State Judiciary in the Late Ninteenth Century: Cooley and Doe5. John Marshall Harlan I: The Precursor6. The Tradition at the Close of the Nineteenth Century7. Holmes, Brandeis, and the Origins of Judicial Liberalism8. Hughes and Stone: Ironies of the Chief Justiceship9. Personal versus Impersonal Judging: The Dilemmas of Robert Jackson10. Cardozo, Learned Hand, and Frank: The Dialectic of Freedom and Constraint11. Rationality and Intuition in the Process of Judging: Roger Traynor12. The Mosaic of the Warren Court: Frankfurter, Black, Warren, and Harlan13. The Anti-Judge: William O. Douglas and the Ambiguities of Individuality14. The Burger Court and the Idea of "Transition" in the American Judicial Tradition15. The Unexpectedness of the Rehnquist Court16. The Tradition and the FutureAppendix: Chronology of Judicial ServiceNotesBibliographical NoteIndex

Editorial Reviews

Acclaim for previous editions
"[A]n outstanding book.[A] keenly intelligent and insightful explanation of how American appellate judges have justified the special power they have in this nation."—Journal of American History

Acclaim for previous editions
"White has written a thoughtful and often provocative work. The portraits are lucid, salient and well focused, and they readily suggest the variety of ways in which judges have exercised the personal discretion permitted by institutions of law."—The American Historical Review

Acclaim for previous editions
"...stimulating and highly readable.... The American Judicial Tradition...provides an excellent introduction to some of the most influential American judges and cases [and] like all good books, provokes as many questions as it resolves."—Administrative Law Review

Acclaim for previous editions
"[P]rovide[s] a trenchant insight into the professional background, commitments, and jurisprudence of those jurists as well as a genuine understanding of the historical periods in which they functioned. We are all in Professor White's debt for a major achievement."—Virginia Law Review

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