Certainty and justice
Subtitle: studies of the conflict between precedent and progress in the development of the law
By: by Frederic R. Coudert.
Publisher: D. Appleton
Published: 1913
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Law -- United States.; Constitutional law -- United States.; Courts -- United States.
Notes: Partly reprinted from various sources.
Table of contents: title: Certainty and justice.; title: The challenge to the Constitution.; title: What is the matter with the law?; title: Jury trial as an instance of constitutional development.; title: Criminal procedure and the Constitution.; title: The Constitution and our new peoples; citizens, subjects, nationals or aliens.; title: The law and our industrial development. "The rule of reason."; title: Perversion of precedent. Stare decisis. History misinterpreted.; title: Aliens and the progress of the law.; title: Progress of international law in treatment of political crime.; title: The crisis of the law; professional incompetency.