Intervention and Detachment: Essays in Legal History and Jurisprudence - Couverture souple

White, G. Edward

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0195084969 ISBN 13 : 9780195084962

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1994

Synopsis

Intervention and Detachment This collection of essays by G. Edward White provides, in one place, discussion of a number of the substantive issues of current interest in American legal history and jurisprudence. Ranging through a diverse body of subjects, including "doing history" (methodology and practice), judicial review, and the politics of jurisprudence, the author both explores important topics and raises critical issues affecting the process of writing legal history. Topics include the nature and process of "revisionism" in historical writing, the role of lawyers in the New Deal, the roles of evidence and interpretation in legal history, critical theory, the significance of the S...

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

This is a collection of essays addressing many of the major issues in American legal history. Opening essays discuss the historiography and development of methodology of American legal history. Other sections consider prominent issues and people such as judicial review, Critical Legal Studies, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. Taken together, the essays provide a survey of the field of modern American legal history.

Biographie de l'auteur :

G. Edward White is at University of Virginia.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0195084969
• ISBN 13: 9780195084962
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320