Research Catalog

Title

Cardozo and frontiers of legal thinking, with selected opinions, by Beryl Harold Levy.

Author

Levy, Beryl Harold, 1908-1995.

Publication

New York, Oxford University Press, 1938.

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Details

Additional Authors

• New York (State). Court of Appeals.
• United States. Supreme Court.

Description

xv, 315 pages illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

Selected cases from the New York Court of Appeals in which the opinion of the court was written by Cardozo. One case is also included from the from the U.S. Supreme Court, the opinion upholding the constitutionality of the Social Security Act (p. [119]-310).

Alternative Title

Cardozo and legal thinking.

Subject

• Cardozo, Benjamin N. 1870-1938
• Cardozo, Benjamin N. 1870-1938
• Law > Philosophy
• Law reports, digests, etc. > New York (State)
• Law reports, digests, etc
• Municipal law
• New York (State)

Note

• Cover-title: Cardozo and legal thinking.
• Selected cases from the New York Court of appeals in which the opinion of the court was written by Cardozo. One case is also included from the U.S. Supreme court, the opinion upholding the constitutionality of the Social security act (p. [119]-310)
• "Acknowledgment" includes A list of publications from which extracts are taken (p. [xiii]-xv)

Contents

I. CARDOZO IN CONTEMPORARY JURISPRUDENCE -- STEERING THE COURSE -- LEGAL REALISM -- PHILOSOPHY AND LAW -- II. DOING JUSTICE -- A DYING MYTH -- `STANDING ON' PRECEDENT -- FUNCTION OF THE PAST -- VITALIZING LAW -- ENFORCING ETHICS -- JUDICIAL PRESTIGE -- COLLATERAL FACTORS -- THE CONTENT OF JUSTICE -- III. THE JUDGE AS ARTIST -- CONSTRUCTING THE OPINION -- RESHAPING THE LEGAL CORPUS -- MOULDING SOCIETY -- SUMMARY CONCLUSION -- INDEX

ISBN

• 0829501479
• 9780829501476

LCCN

38027686

OCLC

• ocm00656557
• 656557
• SCSB-125077

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library