Charles Fairman

History of the Supreme Court of the United States

Herausgeber: Katz, Stanley

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

With this seventh volume of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States, Charles Fairman completes his study of the Supreme Court in the post-Civil War period, 1864 88.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 904
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 57mm
• Gewicht: 1668g
• ISBN-13: 9780521769181
• ISBN-10: 0521769183
• Artikelnr.: 28111359

Autorenporträt

Charles Fairman (1897-1988) was Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the author of Volumes 6 and 7 of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the United State Supreme Court Reconstruction and Reunion: 1864-1888. He was also the author of numerous articles and books, including The Law of Martial Rule (1930) and Mr. Justice Miller and the Supreme Court (1939). In 1948 he published his casebook, American Constitutional Decisions, and a year later, he published his classic article, 'Does the Fourteenth Amendment Incorporate the Bill of Rights?'

Inhaltsangabe

1. Grant finds a Chief Justice
2. Waite, C.J., joins the court
3. Legislation to enforce the post-war amendments: 1866-72
4. The Civil Rights Act of 1875
5. Judicial response to the new legislation I: difficulties at the threshold
6. Judicial response to the new legislation II: Minor, Reese, and Cruikshank
7. Public aid to railroads
eminent domain
and rate regulation: the Granger cases
8. Extension of federal jurisdiction
9. Decisions on the enforcement statutes (1880)
10. The renewal of the court
11. The civil rights cases (1883)
12. The Pacific Railroad and the public domain
13. The commerce clause
14. The court and the police power
15. Reviewing the conduct of government
16. The court and the law of nations
17. The close of an epoch.