Justice Accused Antislavery and the Judicial Process

Name: Justice Accused Antislavery and the Judicial Process
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ISBN: 9780300032529

ISBN-10: 0300032528

ISBN-13: 9780300032529

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Robert M. Cover

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What should a judge do when he must hand down a ruling based on a law that he considers unjust or oppressive? This question is examined through a series of problems concerning unjust law that arose with respect to slavery in nineteenth-century America. Cover's book is splendid in many ways. His legal history and legal philosophy are both first class...This is, for a change, an interdisciplinary work that is a credit to both disciplines.-Ronald Dworkin, Times Literary Supplement Scholars should be grateful to Cover for his often brilliant illumination of tensions created in judges by changing eighteenth- and nineteenth-century jurisprudential attitudes and legal standards...An exciting…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 9/10/1984
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 322
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.98" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English