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  • Patterns of American Legal Thought

    de G. Edward White ...
    A renowned legal historian's collection of astute and timeless essays on such subjects as the process, method and debates of legal history; the truth about Holmes and Brandeis; legal realism & its critics; the origins of tort law; appellate opinions as research sources; Brown v. Board and the role of Earl Warren; and the development of gay rights in U.S. constitutional law. Quality digital format. ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Robert H. Jackson

    A Life in Judgment

    de G. Edward White ...
    Discover the meteoric rise of one of the most extraordinary and singular figures in American jurisprudence, Robert H. Jackson, from self-trained lawyer to influential Supreme Court Justice and chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials, in this compelling new biography. Until he joined the U.S. government in 1934, Robert H. Jackson had been a lawyer in private practice in Upstate New York who ... Leer más

    $22.79 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Legal Education at the University of Virginia

    Tradition and Transformation

    de Meggan F Cashwell, PhD, Randall N. Flaherty, Loren S. Moulds, Biruktawit M. Assefa, Michael Baysa, Catherine A. Ward, Claudrena N. Harold, Anne M. Coughlin, Laura F. Edwards, Risa Goluboff, Justene Hill Edwards, A. E. Dick Howard, Laura Kalman, David Thomas Konig, Addison R. Patrick, Professor Elizabeth R. Varon, PhD, G. Edward White ...
    Tracing the material and intellectual development of one of the nation’s leading law schoolsOver two centuries, UVA Law evolved from a regional, segregated law school into a nationally recognized leader in legal education. As this collection highlights, its changing curriculum—always in conversation with broader historical, cultural, and social forces—proved crucial to this profound transformation ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

    de G. Edward White ...
    Series series Lives and Legacies Series
    Known as the "Great Dissenter," Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. wrote some of the most eloquent opinions in the history of the United States Supreme Court. A brilliant legal mind who served on the high court into his nineties, Holmes was responsible for some of the most important judicial opinions of the twentieth century. Now, in this superb short biography, G. Edward White offers readers a lively, ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • American Legal History

    A Very Short Introduction

    de G. Edward White ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Law has played a central role in American history. From colonial times to the present, law has not just reflected the changing society in which legal decisions have been made-it has played a powerful role in shaping that society, though not always in positive ways. Eminent legal scholar G. Edward White-author of the ongoing, multi-volume Law in American History-offers a compact overview that sheds ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Tort Law in America

    An Intellectual History

    de G. Edward White ...
    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 phenomenon of professionalization in the late 19th and 20th centuries in America, and the recurrent concerns of tort law since it became ... Leer más

    $46.99 USD

  • Earl Warren

    A Public Life

    de G. Edward White ...
    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 ... Leer más

    $44.09 USD

  • Soccer in American Culture

    The Beautiful Game’s Struggle for Status

    de G. Edward White ...
    Series series Sports and American Culture
    2022 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleIn Soccer in American Culture: The Beautiful Game’s Struggle for Status, G. Edward White seeks to answer two questions. The first is why the sport of soccer failed to take root in the United States when it spread from England around much of the rest of the world in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The second is why the sport has had a significant ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD

  • Tort Law and the Construction of Change

    Studies in the Inevitability of History

    de Kenneth S. Abraham, G. Edward White ...
    Tort Law and the Construction of Change studies the interaction of law and social change in American history. Tort law—civil law made by judges, not legislators—is traditionally thought to arise out of legal precedent. But Kenneth S. Abraham and G. Edward White show that American judges over the course of the previous two centuries also paid close attention to changing societal contexts in which ... Leer más

    $37.99 USD

  • Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars

    The Covert Life of a Soviet Spy

    de G. Edward White ...
    For decades, a great number of Americans saw Alger Hiss as an innocent victim of McCarthyism--a distinguished diplomat railroaded by an ambitious Richard Nixon. And even as the case against Hiss grew over time, his dignified demeanor helped create an aura of innocence that outshone the facts in many minds. Now G. Edward White deftly draws together the countless details of Hiss's life--from his ... Leer más

    $22.79 USD

  • The American Judicial Tradition

    Profiles of Leading American Judges

    de G. Edward White ...
    In this revised third edition of a classic in American jurisprudence, G. Edward White updates his series of portraits of the most famous appellate judges in American history from John Marshall to Oliver W. Holmes to Warren E. Burger, with a new chapter on the Rehnquist Court. White traces the development of the American judicial tradition through biographical sketches of the careers and ... Leer más

    $34.19 USD

  • Oliver Wendell Holmes

    Sage of the Supreme Court

    de G. Edward White ...
    Series series Oxford Portraits
    An influential justice who refused to bow to politics and devoted his keen mind to the U.S. Supreme Court until the age of 90, Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935) helped formulate some of the most progressive judicial thought in 20th-century American history. G. Edward White first sketches Holmes's early years-his childhood in Boston, undergraduate years at Harvard, and his valiant service in the ... Leer más

    $27.89 USD