The American judicial tradition : profiles of leading American judges / G. Edward White.

Contents;

1. John Marshall and the Genesis of the tradition

2. Kent, story and Shaw: The judicial function and property rights

3. Roger Taney and the limits of judicial power

4. Political ideologies, professional norms, and the state judiciary in the late nineteenth century: Cooley and Doe

5. John Marshall Harlan I: The precursor

6. The traditional at the close of the nineteenth century

7. Holmes, brandies, and the origins of judicial liberalism

8. Hughes and stone: Ironies of the chief justiceship

9. Personal versus impersonal judging: The dilemmas of Robert Jackson

10. Cardozo, learned hand, and Frank: The dialectic of freedom and constraint

11. Rationality and intuition in the process of judging: Roger Traynor

12. The Mosaic of the Warren court: Frankfurter, Black, Warren and Harlan

13. The anti-judge: William O. Douglas and the ambiguities of individuality

14. The Burger court and the idea of "Transition" in the American judicial tradition

15. The unexpectedness of the Rehnquist court

16. The tradition and the future: A summary

Bibliographical references : p. 477-582 . _ Index : p. 583-592.