An edition of Pillars of justice (2017)

Pillars of justice

lawyers and the liberal tradition

Pillars of justice
Owen M. Fiss, Owen M. Fiss
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An edition of Pillars of justice (2017)

Pillars of justice

lawyers and the liberal tradition

Pillars of Justice explores the purpose and possibilities of life in the law through moving accounts of thirteen lawyers who shaped the legal world during the past half century. Some, such as Thurgood Marshall, were Supreme Court Justices. Others, like John Doar and Burke Marshall, set the civil rights policies of the federal government during the 1960s. Some, including Harry Kalven and Catharine MacKinnon, have taught at the greatest law schools of the nation and nourished the liberalism rooted in the civil rights era. Jurists from abroad--Aharon Barak, for example--were responsible for the rise of the human rights movement that today carries the burden of advancing liberal values. These lawyers came from diverse backgrounds and held various political views. What unites them is a deep, abiding commitment to Brown v. Board of Education as an exceptional moment in the life of the law--a willingness to move mountains, if need be, to ensure that we are living up to our best selves. In tracing how these lawyers over a period of fifty years used the Brown ruling and its spirit as a beacon to guide their endeavors, this history tells the epic story of the liberal tradition in the law. For Owen Fiss, one of the country's leading constitutional theorists, the people described were mentors, colleagues, and friends. In his portraits, Fiss tries to identify the unique qualities of mind and character that made these individuals so important to the institutions and legal principles they served--

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English
Pages
209

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Table of Contents

Thurgood Marshall : the law's promise
William Brennan : a life lived twice
John Doar : to stand for what is right
Burke Marshall : a reluctant hero
Harry Kalven : a tenth justice
Eugene Rostow : the law according to Yale
Arthur Leff : making coffee and other duties of citizenship
Catharine MacKinnon : feminism in the classroom
Joseph Goldstein : the scholar as sovereign
Carlos Nino : the death of a public intellectual
Robert Cover : cases and materials
Morton Horwitz : timeless truths
Aharon Barak : law is everywhere
Coda : toiling in Eden.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
340.092/273
Library of Congress
KF371 .F57 2017, KF371.F57 2017

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 209 pages
Number of pages
209

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27232091M
ISBN 10
0674971868
ISBN 13
9780674971868
LCCN
2016040437
OCLC/WorldCat
959649915

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