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The Warren Court : A Retrospective.
Title:
The Warren Court : A Retrospective.
Author:
Schwartz, Bernard, the late.
ISBN:
9780195355840
Physical Description:
1 online resource (417 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A Personal Remembrance -- 3. Earl Warren and His America -- I. THE CONSTITUTIONAL CORPUS -- 4. Race and Equality: The Still Unfinished Business of the Warren Court -- 5. Freedom of Speech in the Warren Court -- 6. The Warren Court and Freedom of the Press -- 7. The Warren Court and the Religion Clauses of the First Amendment -- 8. The Warren Court and Criminal Justice -- 9. The Takings Jurisprudence of the Warren Court: A Constitutional Siesta -- 10. The Warren Court and the Welcome Stranger Rule -- II. THE JUSTICES -- 11. Hugo L. Black -- 12. William J. Brennan, Jr. -- 13. William O. Douglas -- 14. Felix Frankfurter -- 15. John Marshall Harlan -- 16. Earl Warren -- 17. Clerking for the Chief Justice -- III. A BROADER PERSPECTIVE -- 18. The Warren Court and the Legal Profession: Shouldering the Responsibility of a Common Law Legal System -- 19. The Warren Court in Historical Perspective -- 20. The Warren Court and State Constitutional Law -- 21. From Modernism to Postmodernism in American Legal Thought: The Significance of the Warren Court -- 22. The International Impact of the Warren Court -- 23. Spook of Earl: The Spirit and Specter of the Warren Court -- 24. What the Warren Court Has Meant to America -- 25. The Legacy of the Warren Court.
Abstract:
A detailed analysis of the Warren Court and what it meant to American law and life by well-known judges, professors, lawyers, and popular writers such as Anthony Lewis, David Halberstam, and David J. Garrow. The book covers the Court's decisions, its Justices, and its contribution from a broader perspective. Readable and informative, this will be an indispensable source for those interested in the Court that did so much to change America.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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