Brandeis and the Progressive Constitution
Subtitle: Erie, the Judicial Power, and the Politics of the Federal Courts in Twentieth-Century America
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: February 9, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780300078046
Subjects: Civil law (general works); Constitution: government & the state; 20th century; Judges; U.S. Federal Courts; Progressivism (United States politics); Law; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Legal History; Biography/Autobiography; USA; Jurisprudence; Constitutional; Law / Legal History; Law-Constitutional; Law-Jurisprudence; Political aspects; Courts - General; Lawyers & Judges; United States; 1856-1941; Biography; Brandeis, Louis Dembitz,
First sentence: From the moment that Justice Louis D. Brandeis announced the Supreme Court's decision in the spring of 1938, Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins has fascinated members of the legal profession.
Description: "This book focuses on Supreme Court justice Louis D. Brandeis and his opinion in the 1938 landmark case Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, which resulted in a significant relocation of power from federal to state courts. Distinguished legal historian Edward A. Purcell, Jr., shows how the Erie case provides a window on the legal, political, and ideological battles over the federal courts in the New Deal era.

Purcell also offers an in-depth study of Brandeis's constitutional jurisprudence and evolving legal views."--BOOK JACKET.