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Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface to Third Edition Preface to Expanded Edition Preface Introduction 1: John Marshall and the Genesis of the Tradition 2: Kent, Story, and Shaw: The Judicial Function and Property Rights 3: Roger Taney and the Limits of Judicial Power 4: Political Ideologies, Professional Norms, and the State Judiciary in the Late Ninteenth Century: Cooley and Doe 5: John Marshall Harlan I: The Precursor 6: The Tradition at the Close of the Nineteenth Century 7: Holmes, Brandeis, and the Origins of Judicial Liberalism 8: Hughes and Stone: Ironies of the Chief Justiceship 9: Personal versus Impersonal Judging: The Dilemmas of Robert Jackson 10: Cardozo, Learned Hand, and Frank: The Dialectic of Freedom and Constraint 11: Rationality and Intuition in the Process of Judging: Roger Traynor 12: The Mosaic of the Warren Court: Frankfurter, Black, Warren, and Harlan 13: The Anti-Judge: William O. Douglas and the Ambiguities of Individuality 14: The Burger Court and the Idea of "Transition" in the American Judicial Tradition 15: The Unexpectedness of the Rehnquist Court 16: The Tradition and the Future Appendix: Chronology of Judicial Service Notes Bibliographical Note Index ...
