Title: Patterns of American legal thought /
Authors: White, G. Edward
Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill Co.,
Year: 1978
Subjects: Jurisprudence; Law United States History
Contents: Introduction -- Some central themes of American law. Book review of Lawrence M. Friedman, A history of American law ; The path of American jurisprudence ; The appellate opinion as historical source material -- Scholarly thought. From sociological jurisprudence to realism: jurisprudence and social change in early twentieth-century America ; The evolution of reasoned elaboration: jurisprudential criticism and social change ; The intellectual origins of torts in America -- The judiciary. The rise and fall of Justice Holmes ; Allocating power between agengies and the courts: the legacy of Justice Brandeis -- Constitutional law. The Supreme Court's public and the publics's Supreme Court ; Constitutional protection for personal lifestyles -- Conclusion.