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G. Edward White

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes

Law and the Inner Self. Sprachen: Englisch. 22,9 cm / 15,2 cm / 3,8 cm ( B/H/T )
EAN 9780195101287

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652 Seiten
Dezember 1995
Oxford University Press

White goes beyond the labels to give readers a rounded portrait of this remarkable jurist. Covering Holmes' early life and time at Harvard, his ambivalent relationship with his father, and Civil War service, White also examines Holmes' childless marriage and his reputation as a preeminent legal figure. 14 halftones. Map.

G. Edward White is University Professor and John B. Minor Professor of Law and History at the University of Virginia. A noted legal scholar, his books have won several awards, including a Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association in 1983, for Earl Warren, and the James Willard Hurst Prize of the Law and Society Association in 1990, for The Marshall Court and Cultural Change.