Leadership on the federal bench : the craft and activism of Jack Weinstein / by Jeffrey B. Morris.
2011
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Title
Leadership on the federal bench : the craft and activism of Jack Weinstein / by Jeffrey B. Morris.
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]
Copyright
©2011
Call Number
KF373.W3485 M67 2011
ISBN
9780199772414 (hardback : alk. paper)
019977241X (hardback : alk. paper)
019977241X (hardback : alk. paper)
Description
xx, 398 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)701495058
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Preface
ix
Note: The Weinstein Oral History and Other Sources
xv
Note on Footnotes
xvii
Abbreviations
xix
Introduction: Jack B. Weinstein and the Work of the Federal District Courts
1
1.
"All The Facts of Real Life Revealed in Our Work": The "Job" of a Federal District Judge
11
2.
The Years Before Appointment to the Bench, 1921-1967
25
3.
The Political and Legal Environment within which Jack Weinstein Judged: Nation and District, 1967 to Date
73
4.
Characteristics of Jack Weinstein's Judging
89
5.
"An Activist Seeker of Troublesome Issues": Jack Weinstein's First Decade on the Bench, 1967-1976
117
6.
"Making the Unequal Equal through the Alchemy of the Law": Growing Renown, 1977-1986
161
7.
"Imaginative Reformer" and "Vindicator of the Ideal of the Judge": Jack Weinstein's Work, 1987-1996
207
8.
"Under the Blindfold, Does Justice Weep?": Jack Weinstein and Sentencing
243
9.
Feeling "Like the Man of La Mancha Pursuing Enamored Justice": Weinstein's Judicial Work, 1997-2007 and Beyond
281
10.
Bringing Justice to Large Groups of People: Mass Torts and Class Actions (I)
315
11.
Bringing Justice to Large Groups of People: Mass Torts and Class Actions (II)
341
Conclusions
371
Index
381