Pillars of Justice : Lawyers and the Liberal Tradition / Owen Fiss.
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TextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) : 13 halftonesContent type: - 9780674977341
- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Judges -- United States
- Law teachers -- United States
- Lawyers -- United States
- Liberalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Segregation in education -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- LAW / Legal History
- Aharon Barak
- Arthur Leff
- Burke Marshall
- Carlos Nino
- Catharine MacKinnon
- Eugene Rostow
- Harry Kalven
- John Doar
- Joseph Goldstein
- Morton Horwitz
- Robert Cover
- Thurgood Marshall
- William Brennan
- KF371
- online - DeGruyter
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. The Struggle for Civil Rights -- 1. Thurgood Marshall: The Law’s Promise -- 2. William Brennan: A Life Lived Twice -- 3. John Doar: To Stand for What Is Right -- 4. Burke Marshall: A Reluctant Hero -- II. Legal Education and the Culture of Liberalism -- 5. Harry Kalven: A Tenth Justice -- 6. Eugene Rostow: The Law according to Yale -- 7. Arthur Leff: Making Coffee and Other Duties of Citizenship -- 9. Joseph Goldstein: The Scholar as Sovereign -- III. The Fate of the Law -- 10. Carlos Nino: The Death of a Public Intellectual -- 11. Robert Cover: Cases and Materials -- 12. Morton Horwitz: Timeless Truths -- 13. Aharon Barak: Law Is Everywhere -- Coda -- Toiling in Eden -- Sources and Acknowledgments -- Index
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The constitutional theorist Owen Fiss explores the purpose and possibilities of life in the law through a moving account of thirteen lawyers who shaped the legal world during the past half century. He tries to identify the unique qualities of mind and character that made these individuals so important to the institutions and principles they served.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
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