Leadership on the federal bench
Subtitle: the craft and activism of Jack Weinstein
By: by Jeffrey B. Morris
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9780199772414
Subjects: United States; Judges; United States. District Court (New York : Eastern District); Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "All the facts of real life revealed in our work" : the "job" of a federal district judge; title: The years before appointment to the bench, 1921-67; title: The political and legal environment within which Jack Weinstein judged :  nation and the district, 1967 to date; title: Characteristics of Jack Weinstein's judging; title: "An activist seeker of troublesome issues" : Jack Weinstein's first decade on the bench, 1967-76; title: "Making the unequal equal through the alchemy of the law :" growing renown, 1977-86; title: "Imaginative reformer" and "vindicator of the ideal of a judge" : Jack Weinstein's work, 1987-96; title: "Under the blindfold, does justice weep?" : Jack Weinstein and sentencing; title: "Feeling like the Man of la Mancha pursuing enamored justice" : Weinstein's judicial work, 1997-2007 and beyond; title: Bringing justice to large groups of people : mass torts and class actions (I); title: Bringing justice to large groups of people : mass torts and class actions (II).