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1. Biography - Cardozo, Benjamin N(athan) (1870-1938): An article from: Contemporary Authors by --Sketch by Judson Knight | |
Digital: 9
Pages
(2003-01-01)
list price: US$9.95 -- used & new: US$9.95 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: B0007SAO7Y Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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2. Cardozo: A Study in Reputation by Richard A. Posner | |
Hardcover: 163
Pages
(1990-10-15)
list price: US$22.95 Isbn: 0226675556 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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As Danger Invites Rescue, Posner Stimulates Intellect
Deconstructing Justice Palsgraf
Compound Authority; a many-layered onion I 'd rate this book the one MUST READ book if you are thinking about law school. This is what law school is about: Struggling with how to promote social welfare by interpretation and rulemaking.
American Judges Attemptingto create a new genre of social science, Judge Posner smoothly integratesthe drives that formed Cardozo as a man with the strictures of the law thatdefine a judge. Analysis of the opinions, along with the briefs of thearguments, show that he was a good judge because he was able to reachcorrect results even when the specific facts of cases seemed to predict alegal anamoly. That quality produced case law that remains hard toreconcile, and the result has been attacks on the decisions asinconsistent. Judge Posner recognizes those weaknesses, but rather thancontorting his logic in reconciling them explains that a man's reputationis typically based on either his high points or his low ones. In Cardozo'scase, his death after only six years on the US Supreme Court limited thehigh points to controversial cases, such as MacPherson and Hynes. JudgePosner speculates that had Cardozo, like Holmes, had a full career as aSupreme Court justice the subjective standard for measurement of hisreputation would have shifted away from the decisions as a statejudge. Although those state court opinions continue to dominate Tortstextbooks, Cardozo's critics have injured his reputation by suggesting thathe was merely a flamboyant local judge. Judge Posner shows that their slurshave not reached the ears of leading jurists. However, the ordinary personis apt to adopt those reputationary revisions without actually readingCardozo's opinions and relating them to the specific cases and thedevelopment of American common law. Thus, Judge Posner creates a bridge,somewhat like Justice Cardozo, between arcane legal studies and the conductof the people that law governs.
A fine book The only part of the book Ifound lacking was Posner's discussion of individual cases, which was a bitless exciting than the rest of the book.Before reading the book I was notconvinced that the infarmous Palsgraf case deserved its notoriety-- and Istill don't get the Palsgraf mystique that seems to entrance so many otherlaw professors and lawyers. ... Read more |
3. Mr. Justice Cardozo: A Liberal Mind in Action by Joseph Percival Pollard | |
Hardcover: 327
Pages
(1970-03-30)
list price: US$65.00 Isbn: 0837128153 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
4. The World of Benjamin Cardozo: Personal Values and the Judicial Process by Richard Polenberg | |
Hardcover: 320
Pages
(1997-10-15)
list price: US$31.00 -- used & new: US$23.95 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0674960513 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Book Description "The sordid controversies of litigants," Benjamin Cardozo once said, are "the stuff from which great and shining truths will ultimately be shaped." As one of America's most influential judges, first on New York State's Court of Appeals and then on the United States Supreme Court, Cardozo (1870-1938) oversaw this transformation daily. How he arrived at his rulings, with their far-reaching consequences, becomes clear in this book, the first to explore the connections between Benjamin Cardozo's life and his jurisprudence. An intensely private man whose friends destroyed much of his correspondence, Cardozo has long eluded scrutiny. But through extraordinary effort Richard Polenberg has uncovered letters, briefs, transcripts, and biographical details to give us a complex living picture of this man whose judicial opinions continue to affect us. Polenberg describes the shaping experiences of Cardozo's youth, among them the death of his mother when he was nine years old; religious training in the Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue; two years of private tutoring by Horatio Alger, Jr.; and his reaction to the scandal that prompted his father to resign from the New York Supreme Court. Then, in light of certain cases that were brought before the Court of Appeals, we see how Cardozo's rulings reflected a system of beliefs rooted in these early experiences; how, despite his famous detachment, Cardozo read evidence and precedents selectively and based his decisions regarding issues from rape and divorce to the insanity plea on his own views about morality, scholarship, and sexuality. Here too is the truth behind Cardozo's renowned liberalism, explored through his rulings on New Deal measures such as the Social Security Act and his more conservative decisions in cases involving conscientious objectors and the rights of criminal defendants. The Benjamin Cardozo who emerges from these pages, a complicated and intriguing figure, points to a new understanding of the shaping of American law. |
5. Bibliography, Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (May 24, 1870-July 9, 1938) by Ernest Henry Breuer | |
Unknown Binding:
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(1964)
Asin: B0007I348U Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
6. Cardozo by Andrew L. Kaufman | |
Hardcover: 744
Pages
(1998-05-01)
list price: US$74.50 -- used & new: US$45.00 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0674096452 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Amazon.com Kaufman recounts all of this, effectively combining legal analysis with biography. Cardozo's father was a judge tarnished with scandal, and it has long been theorized that Cardozo's life was an attempt to retrieve that lost honor. He would, for example, turn down even the simplest gifts that other judges routinely accepted. Kaufman arguably overplays the honor theme when it comes to his legal analysis, most notably in his analysis of Meinhard v. Salmon, in which the judge declared that, in matters of fiduciary obligations, "[a] trustee is held to something stricter than the morals of the marketplace." Kaufman, perhaps stretching Cardozo's opinion too far to reach the desired conclusion, views this decision as "a culmination of Cardozo's efforts to implant a sense of honorable conduct into law." The only potential downside to the book, other than the occasional desire to see Kaufman address more frequently the thoughts and analysis of other biographers and commentators on Cardozo's life and work, is that Cardozo's virtue risks becoming the biography's failing: his life was his work. He was celibately monkish in his private life, and other than the politicking behind each of his successive appointments to higher courts, Cardozo's political life was for the most part equally quiet. Fortunately, Cardozo's legal output is so varied and important that the biography's necessary focus on his judicial career is not wasted effort for the author or the reader. --Ted Frank Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, unarguably one of the most outstanding judges of the twentieth century, is a man whose name remains prominent and whose contributions to the law remain relevant. This first complete biography of the longtime member and chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals and Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States during the turbulent years of the New Deal is a monumental achievement by a distinguished interpreter of constitutional law. Cardozo was a progressive judge who understood and defended the proposition that judge-made law must be adapted to modern conditions. He also preached and practiced the doctrine that respect for precedent, history, and all branches of government limited what a judge could and should do. Thus, he did not modernize law at every opportunity. In this book, Kaufman interweaves the personal and professional lives of this remarkable man to yield a multidimensional whole. Cardozo's family ties to the Jewish community were a particularly significant factor in shaping his life, as was his father's scandalous career--and ultimate disgrace--as a lawyer and judge. Kaufman concentrates, however, on Cardozo's own distinguished career, including twenty-three years in private practice as a tough-minded and skillful lawyer and his classic lectures and writings on the judicial process. From this biography emerges an estimable figure holding to concepts of duty and responsibility, but a person not without frailties and prejudice. Customer Reviews (4)
The Definitive Biography
Extraordinary insights into an American judicial hero
An honest and insightful biography of a pivotal figure
The only comprehensive biography of Justice Cardozo |
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