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The world of Benjamin Cardozo
personal values and the judicial process
By Polenberg, Richard
- ISBN
- 978-0-67496-051-0
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997.
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Reviewed on November 1, 1997
Early in his judicial career, Benjamin Cardozo, who would become a U.S. Supreme Court justice, established values for judicial decisions. He believed that judges can assess the social environment when precedent or philosophical positions do not provide for a clear decision. Polenberg (American history, Cornell Univ.) examines Cardozo's legal decision-making when he was a judge of ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
