Brandeis and the progressive constitution : Erie, the judicial power, and the politics of the federal courts in twentieth-century America
Type
Book
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ISBN 10
0300078048
ISBN 13
9780300078046
DDC
347.73
Category
American Law
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Publication Year
2000
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Pages
x, 417 pages
Subject
American Biography
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Abstract
"This book focuses on Supreme Court justice Louis D. Brandeis and his opinion in the 1938 landmark case Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, which resulted in a significant relocation of power from federal to state courts. Distinguished legal historian Edward A. Purcell, Jr., shows how the Erie case provides a window on the legal, political, and ideological battles over the federal courts in the New Deal era. Purcell also offers an in-depth study of Brandeis's constitutional jurisprudence and evolving legal views."--Jacket.
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Content:
pt. I : The federal judicial power and progressive reform -- 1. The premise of an age : law politics, and the federal courts, 1877-1937 -- 2. Expanding the federal judicial power : Justice David J. Brewer and the "general" common law -- 3. Progressive judicial reform after World War I : diversity jurisdiction and the labor injunction -- pt. II : Brandeis, Erie, and the complexities of constitutional judging -- 4. Litigant strategies and judicial dynamics -- 5. Brandeis : the judge as human -- 6. "Defects, social" : the progressive as judicial craftsman -- 7. "Defects, political" : the progressive as constitutional architect -- pt. III : History and the dynamics of meaning in an age of transition -- 9. Henry M. Hart, Jr., and the power of transforming vision -- 10. Cold War politics and neutral principles : the federal judicial power in a New Age -- 11. To century's end : meaning, politics, and the constitutional enterprise.
pt. I : The federal judicial power and progressive reform -- 1. The premise of an age : law politics, and the federal courts, 1877-1937 -- 2. Expanding the federal judicial power : Justice David J. Brewer and the "general" common law -- 3. Progressive judicial reform after World War I : diversity jurisdiction and the labor injunction -- pt. II : Brandeis, Erie, and the complexities of constitutional judging -- 4. Litigant strategies and judicial dynamics -- 5. Brandeis : the judge as human -- 6. "Defects, social" : the progressive as judicial craftsman -- 7. "Defects, political" : the progressive as constitutional architect -- pt. III : History and the dynamics of meaning in an age of transition -- 9. Henry M. Hart, Jr., and the power of transforming vision -- 10. Cold War politics and neutral principles : the federal judicial power in a New Age -- 11. To century's end : meaning, politics, and the constitutional enterprise.
Biblio Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-407) and index.
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