Intervention and Detachment: Essays in Legal History and Jurisprudence

by G. Edward White

Overview

This collection of essays by G. Edward White provides, in one place, discussion of a number of the substantive issues of current interest in American legal history and jurisprudence. Ranging through a diverse body of subjects, including "doing history" (methodology and practice), judicial review, and the politics of jurisprudence, the author both explores important topics and raises critical issues affecting the process of writing legal history. Topics include the nature and process of "revisionism" in historical writing, the role of lawyers in the New Deal, the roles of evidence and interpretation in legal history, critical theory, the significance of the Supreme Court in American culture, the historiography of the Marshall Court, and the career of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. Written by one of the nation's preeminent legal historians, Intervention and Detachment skillfully integrates the theoretical and the concrete, offering scholars and students a vital survey of modern American legal history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195084962
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/06/1994
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.06(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

University of Virginia

Table of Contents

IntroductionI. Doing History: MethodologyTruth and Interpretation in Legal HistoryThe Text, Interpretation, and Critical StandardsThe Art of Revising History: Revisting The Marshall CourtII. Doing History: PracticeThe Intergrity of Holmes' JurisprudenceLooking at Holmes in the MirrorRevisiting the New Deal Legal GenerationFelix Frankfurter, the Old Boy Network, and the New Deal: The Placement of Elite Lawyers in Public Service in the 1930sIII. Judicial ReviewReflections on the Role of the Supreme Court: The Contemporary Debate and the "Lessons" of HistoryJudicial Activism and the Identity of the Legal ProfessionChief Justice Marshall, Justice Holmes, and the Discourse of Constitutional AdjudicationIV. The Politics of JurisprudenceThe Inevitability of Critical Legal StudiesFrom Realism to Critical Legal Studies: A Truncated Intellectual HistoryConclusionIndex