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Author:   G. Edward White (David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law, David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Edition:   3rd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 23.30cm , Height: 3.40cm , Length: 16.70cm
Weight:   0.857kg
ISBN:  

9780195139631

ISBN 10:   0195139631
Pages:   624
Publication Date:   18 January 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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<br>Acclaim for previous editions<br> [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<br>Acclaim for previous editions<br> 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<br>Acclaim for previous editions<br> .. .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<br>Acclaim for previous editions<br> [P]rovide[s] a trenchant insight into the professional background, commitments, and jurisprudence of those jurists

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

Acclaim for previous editions<br> [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<br> Acclaim for previous editions<br> 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<br> Acclaim for previous editions<br> .,. 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<br> Acclaim for previous editions<br> [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<br>

Author Information

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.

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