Noble purposes
Subtitle: nine champions of the rule of law
By: edited by Norman Gross ; foreword by Karen J. Mathis.
Contributors: Gross, Norman.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Athens, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780821417317
Subjects: Lawyers -- United States -- Biography.; Judges -- United States -- Biography.; Justice, Administration of -- United States -- History.; Rule of law -- United States -- History.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Samule Sewall : defender of the rule of law? -- John R. Vile; title: James Alexander : prophet of a free press -- John D. Gordan III -- Lemuel Shaw : the shaping of state law / -- Paul Finkelman; title: The courage of his convictions : Hugh Lennox Bond and the South Carolina : Ku Klux Klan trials -- Kermit L. Hall; title: Clara Shortridge Folz : inventing the public defender -- Barbara Allen Babcock; title: Noah Parden : in the eye of the storm -- Mark Curriden; title: Race, party, class : the contradicitions of Octaiano Larrazolo -- Phillip B. Gonzales; title: Louis Marshall : Attorney general of the Jewish people -- Henry M. Greenberg; title: Francis Biddle : Protecting the rule of law during wartime-- Cornell W. Clayton.