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Brandeis and the progressive constitution : Erie, the judicial power, and the politics of the federal courts in twentieth-century America
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"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 feder...
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Edward A. Purcell, Jr
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- English
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- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2000]
- ©2000
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- x, 417 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780300078046, 9780300147391, 0300147392, 0300078048
- OCLC
- on1024043855, ocm41400860, ocn861792682
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [309]-407) and index.
- 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 Legal Change. 8. Erosion and Creation 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