John Marshall Harlan: Great Dissenter of the Warren Court - Couverture rigide

Yarbrough, Tinsley E.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0195060903 ISBN 13 : 9780195060904

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1992

Synopsis

John Marshall Harlan When David Souter was nominated by President Bush to the Supreme Court, he cited John Marshall Harlan as his model. It was an interesting choice. Admired by conservatives and deeply respected by his liberal brethren, Harlan was a man, as Justice William Brennan lamented, whose "massive scholarship" has never been fully recognized. In addition, he was the second Harlan to sit on the Court, following his grandfather--also named John Marshall Harlan. But while his grandfather was an outspoken supporter of reconstruction on a conservative court, the younger Harlan emerged as a critic of the Warren Court's liberal expansion of civil liberties. Now, in the first ...

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

John Marshall Harlan served on the Supreme Court from 1955 until his retirement and death in 1971. An articulate and forceful critic of the expansive civil liberties doctrines and constitutional trends of the period, Harlan is considered one of the most scholarly jurists ever to have served on the Supreme Court. This is the first book-length biography and analysis of his judicial and constitutional philosophy.

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• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0195060903
• ISBN 13: 9780195060904
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 428