In Law in American History, Volume III: 1930-2000, the eminent legal scholar G. Edward White concludes his sweeping history of law in America, from the colonial era to the near-present. Picking up where his previous volume left off, at the end of the 1920s, White turns his attention to modern developments in both public and private law. One of his findings is that despite the massive changes in American society since the New Deal, some of the landmark constitutional decisions from that period remain salient today. An illustration is the Court's sweeping interpretation of the reach of Congress's power under the Commerce Clause in Wickard v. Filburn (1942), a decision that figured prominently in the Supreme Court's recent decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act. In these formative years of modern American jurisprudence, courts responded to, and affected, the emerging role of the state and federal governments as regulatory and redistributive institutions and the growing participation of the United States in world affairs. They extended their reach into domains they had mostly ignored: foreign policy, executive power, criminal procedure, and the rights of speech, sexuality, and voting. Today, the United States continues to grapple with changing legal issues in each of those domains. Law in American History, Volume III provides an authoritative introduction to how modern American jurisprudence emerged and evolved of the course of the twentieth century, and the impact of law on every major feature of American life in that century. White's two preceding volumes and this one constitute a definitive treatment of the role of law in American history.

Law in American History, Volume III: 1930-2000

History

White, G. Edward

Americas

Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press, copyright 1976; apparent First Edition. 442 pp. Size 9.25" by 6.25" by 1.5". DJ; no tears but shows scuffs from shelf life; see listing photo. Covers and binding intact; no loose pages; covers and pages clean and unmarked EXCEPT signature of former owner (me) on front free endpaper. In excellent condition. Profiles of 24 or more appellate judges in America from John Marshall to the Warren Court, written from the perspective of the political issues their interpretations of law faced at the times of their most momentous decisions.

The American Judicial Tradition

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Profiles of Leading American Judges. Portreys the morality of the institution of the judiciary. Looks at the judiciary based on profiles of prominent judges including: Tradition: John Marshal; Judicial Function and Property Rights: Kent, Story, and Shaw; Limits of Judicial Power: Roger Taney; The Reconstructed Constitution: Miller, Bradley, and Field; Political Ideologies, Professional Norms, and the State of the Judiciary in the Late Nineteenth Centrury: Cooley and Doe; The Precursor: John marshall Harlan I; Origins of Judicial Liberalism: Homes, Brandeis; Source of Judicial NOteriaty: The four horsemen; Ironies of the Chief Justiceship: Hughs and Stone; Personal versus impersonal judging: the Dilemmas of Robert Jackson; The Dialetic of Freedom and Restraint: Cardozo, Learned Hand, and Frank; Rationality and Intuition in the process of judging: Roger Traynor; The Mosaic of the Warren Court: Frankfurter, Black, Warren, and Harlan;

This history of tort law in America looks at how the subject has been conceptualized, pointing out why changes in rules occurred, and who did the changing. White approaches his subject from four perspectives: intellectual history, the sociology of knowledge, the phenomoenon of professionalization in the late 19th and 20th centuries in America, and the recurrent concerns of tort law since it became a discrete field.

Tort Law in America: An Intellectual History

Business

Earl Warren: A Public Life

The author challenges the notion that Warren was an average man of limited abilities and seeks to establish him as a major political reformer and judicial activist

This history of tort law in America looks at how the subject has been conceptualized, pointing out why changes in rules occurred, and who did the changing. White approaches his subject from four perspectives: intellectual history, the sociology of knowledge, the phenomoenon of professionalization in the late 19th and 20th centuries in America, and the recurrent concerns of tort law since it became a discrete field.

Asia

This is a major biography of one of America's most influential and respected Supreme Court justices by a leading law scholar. In the late 1970s, Earl Warren's papers were opened and G. Edward White, a former law clerk of Warren, was given complete access to research this book. The result is the first study of the Chief Justice to cover his entire political career and to examine aspects of Warren's character that have seemed paradoxical. White goes back to Warren's roots in California Progressivism to illuminate his mid-century liberalism and the controversial decisions over which he presided in the Supreme Court. Based on a wealth of newly available information and White's understanding of Warren's work and personality, this is a fascinating, original portrait of Chief Justice Earl Warren.

Historical

The American Judicial Tradition: Profiles of Leading American Judges

Now available in a newly revised and updated second edition, this highly acclaimed volume presents a series of portraits of the most famous appellate judges in American history from John Marshall to the Burger court. G. Edward White traces the American judicial tradition through sketches of the careers and contributions of such significant judges as John Marshall, Joseph Story, Roger Taney, Stephen Field, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Brandeis, Charles Evans Hughes, Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, Earl Warren, William Brennan, and Sandra Day O'Connor. This expanded edition contains a new preface, an updated bibliographical note, and two new chapters, one on Justice William O. Douglas and one on the Burger Court.

The American Judicial Tradition: Profiles of Leading American Judges (Oxford Paperbacks)

Now available in a newly revised and updated second edition, this highly-acclaimed volume presents a series of portraits of the most famous appellate judges in American history from John Marshall to the Burger court. G. Edward White traces the American judicial tradition through sketches of the careers and contributions of such significant judges as John Marshall, Joseph Story, Roger Taney, Stephen Field, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Brandeis, Charles Evans Hughes, Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, Earl Warren, William Brennan, and Sandra Day O'Connor. This expanded edition contains a new preface, an updated bibliographical note, and two new chapters, one on Justice William O. Douglas and one on the Burger Court.

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

The Marshall Court and Cultural Change, 1815-1835

G. Edward White's monumental study on the Marshall Court, originally published as Volumes III-IV of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court, shows how the decisions made between 1815 and 1835 reveal an active reinterpretation of the Constitution and its principles of republicanism to suit the requirements of a rapidly changing nation. Placing the Marshall Court within the cultural and ideological context of early nineteenth-century America, White argues that the Court recast the language of the Constitution to give certain crucial terms the appearance of timeless legal principles, and promoted a style of judicial decision-making that concealed the discretionary elements of constitutional interpretation from public scrutiny, thus fostering the impression of an objective, non-partisan Court. Now available in an abridged paperback edition, The Marshall Court and Cultural Change, 1815-1835 will be essential for courses in American legal and constitutional history.

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Law in American History, Volume III: 1930-2000

The American Judicial Tradition

The American Judicial Tradition

Tort Law in America: An Intellectual History

Earl Warren: A Public Life

Tort Law in America: An Intellectual History

Earl Warren: A Public Life

The American Judicial Tradition: Profiles of Leading American Judges (Oxford Paperbacks)

The American Judicial Tradition: Profiles of Leading American Judges

The Marshall Court and Cultural Change, 1815-1835