Henry Friendly, Greatest Judge of His Era

Informationen zum Autor David M. Dorsen is Of Counsel to Sedgwick LLP, based in Washington, D.C. Richard A. Posner retired as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in 2017. He was previously a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. Klappentext Henry Friendly is frequently grouped with Oliver Wendell Holmes! Louis Brandeis! Benjamin Cardozo! and Learned Hand as the best American jurists of the twentieth century. In this first! comprehensive biography of Friendly! Dorsen opens a unique window onto how a judge of this caliber thinks and decides cases! and how Friendly lived his life. Zusammenfassung Henry Friendly is frequently grouped with Oliver Wendell Holmes! Louis Brandeis! Benjamin Cardozo! and Learned Hand as the best American jurists of the twentieth century. In this first! comprehensive biography of Friendly! Dorsen opens a unique window onto how a judge of this caliber thinks and decides cases! and how Friendly lived his life.

Product details

• Authors: David M. Dorsen
• Assisted by: Richard A. Posner (Foreword)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.03.2012
• EAN: 9780674064393
• ISBN: 978-0-674-06439-3
• No. of pages: 512
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; USA, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, 20th Century, LAW / Legal Profession, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, Biography: historical, political and military, Legal profession: general, Legal profession / practice of law: general