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Author : Kim Isaac Eisler
Publisher : Beard Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1587982714
Fascinating and illuminating portrayal of William J. Brennan, Jr., who emerged from a nondescript past to become the seminal justice of our times.
Author : David E. Marion
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0847685675
David E. Marion offers a careful review of Brennan's opinions that clarifies his defense of libertarian dignity and illustrates the profound political and constitutional impact of Brennan's opinions on public discourse and government policy.
Author : Seth Stern,Stephen Wermiel
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780700619122
In this sweeping and revealing insider study, Seth Stern and Stephen Wermiel shine a bright light on the life, career, and thought of William Brennan (1906-1997), widely considered the Supreme Court's most influential twentieth-century justice, as well as its greatest liberal and preeminent strategist. Stern and Wermiel make available for the first time a striking new view of Brennan based on what Jeffrey Toobin has called "a coveted set of documents"—Justice Brennan's very personal case histories of the major battles that confronted the Supreme Court during the past half century. Roe v. Wade, affirmative action, the death penalty, obscenity law, and the constitutional right to privacy are among the many controversial and hotly-contested big-picture issues covered in the Brennan annals. But they also provide more intimate glimpses of Brennan's surprising refusal to hire female clerks, even as he wrote groundbreaking opinions relating to women's rights; the complex tension between his commitment to law and his Catholic beliefs; and new details on his unprecedented working relationship with Chief Justice Earl Warren. Drawing upon Wermiel's rare access to the Brennan case histories, half of which will not be released to the public until 2017, and his more than sixty hours of one-on-one interviews with Justice Brennan himself, the authors have crafted a compelling portrait of a judicial giant, filled with details and insights that will further cement Brennan's reputation as an epic playmaker during the Court's most liberal era.
Author : Seth Stern,Stephen Wermiel
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780547523897
A sweeping insider look at the life of William Brennan, champion of free speech and widely considered the most influential Supreme Court justice of the twentieth century Before his death, William Brennan granted Stephen Wermiel access to volumes of personal and court materials that are sealed to the public until 2017. These are what Jeffrey Toobin has called “a coveted set of documents” that includes Brennan’s case histories—in which he recorded strategies behind all the major battles of the past half century, including Roe v. Wade, affirmative action, the death penalty, obscenity law, and the constitutional right to privacy—as well as more personal documents that reveal some of Brennan's curious contradictions, like his refusal to hire female clerks even as he wrote groundbreaking women’s rights decisions; his complex stance as a justice and a Catholic; and details on Brennan’s unprecedented working relationship with Chief Justice Earl Warren. Wermiel distills decades of valuable information into a seamless, riveting portrait of the man behind the Court's most liberal era.
Author : Hunter R. Clark
Publisher : Carol Publishing Corporation
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015034243397
When he was named to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1956, he likened himself to a mule entered in the Kentucky Derby. But by the time he retired 34 years later, William Brennan was regarded as the seminal justice of the second half of the 20th century. Now the coauthor of the acclaimed biography of Justice Thurgood Marshall tells Brennan's story. 16 pages of photographs.
Author : Roger L. Goldman,William Joseph Brennan,David Gallen
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Pub
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Law
ISBN : 0786700696
Exploring his thirty-four year position on the United States Supreme Court, a detailed account of his significant contribution to the modern law on freedom of speech and the press notes his positions on civil rights, education, and capital punishment.
Author : William J. Brennan,Leonard Williams Levy
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 080932234X
The Conscience of the Court celebrates the work of Justice William J. Brennan Jr., who served on the United States Supreme Court for thirty-four years (1956-1990). Stephen L. Sepinuck and Mary Pat Treuthart introduce and present selected judicial opinions written by Justice Brennan on issues involving personal freedom, civil liberties, and equality. Brennan is ranked by many as the best writer ever to have served on the Supreme Court, and his written opinions depict real people, often in desperate, emotional situations. Remarkable for their clarity of analysis, for their eloquence, and for their forcefulness and persuasiveness, his opinions demonstrate that judicial thought need not be a proprietary enclave of lawyers or the intellectual elite. The extended excerpts selected by Sepinuck and Treuthart highlight Brennan's approach to judicial decision making. Concerned always with how each decision would actually affect people's lives, Brennan possessed a rare quality of empathy. In Brennan, the editors note, "people and groups who lacked influence in society -- Communists and flag burners, children and foreigners, criminal defendants and racial minorities" -- found a champion they could count on "to listen to their causes and judge them unmoved by the passions of the politically powerful". This book is divided into four chapters dealing with freedom of expression, religious liberties and guarantees, the individual versus the state, and protections of equality. Within each chapter, the excerpted cases are presented chronologically. The editors selected more dissenting and concurring opinions than majority opinions because, they reason, a justice writing a dissent or concurrence isfreer to express personal views than one writing for the majority who may feel compelled to include or exclude certain statements in order to hold a fragile coalition together. Each opinion has been edited to focus on the constitutional question at issue while still preserving Brennan's style of expression and process of reasoning. In their introduction to each opinion, the editors provide background facts, discuss how the excerpted opinion transformed the law or otherwise fit into the realm of constitutional jurisprudence, and delve into Justice Brennan's judicial philosophy, his method of constitutional interpretation, and the language he used.
Author : Frank I. Michelman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781400823369
In Brennan and Democracy, a leading thinker in U.S. constitutional law offers some powerful reflections on the idea of "constitutional democracy," a concept in which many have seen the makings of paradox. Here Frank Michelman explores the apparently conflicting commitments of a democratic governmental system where key aspects of such important social issues as affirmative action, campaign finance reform, and abortion rights are settled not by a legislative vote but by the decisions of unelected judges. Can we--or should we--embrace the values of democracy together with constitutionalism, judicial supervision, and the rule of law? To answer this question, Michelman calls into service the judicial career of Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, the country's model "activist" judge for the past forty years. Michelman draws on Brennan's record and writings to suggest how the Justice himself might have understood the judiciary's role in the simultaneous promotion of both democratic and constitutional government. The first chapter prompts us to reflect on how tough and delicate an act it is for the members of a society to attempt living together as a people devoted to self-government. The second chapter seeks to renew our appreciation for democratic liberal political ideals, and includes an extensive treatment of Brennan's judicial opinions, which places them in relation to opposing communitarian and libertarian positions. Michelman also draws on the views of two other prominent constitutional theorists, Robert Post and Ronald Dworkin, to build a provocative discussion of whether democracy is best conceived as a "procedural" or a "substantive" ideal.
Author : Lee Levine,Stephen Wermiel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Freedom of the press
ISBN : 1627224491
This compelling work of historical non-fiction focuses on the progeny of the famous New York Times v. Sullivan Supreme Court Decision. It examines how Justice Brennan nurtured and developed the constitutional law of defamation and related claims. It provides the authoritative historical account of how an important body of constitutional law came to be. The Progeny offers fresh insights with respect to both what the law means and the process by which it was formulated.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LOC:0014004068A
Author : H. Jefferson Powell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780226677309
While many recent observers have accused American judges—especially Supreme Court justices—of being too driven by politics and ideology, others have argued that judges are justified in using their positions to advance personal views. Advocating a different approach—one that eschews ideology but still values personal perspective—H. Jefferson Powell makes a compelling case for the centrality of individual conscience in constitutional decision making. Powell argues that almost every controversial decision has more than one constitutionally defensible resolution. In such cases, he goes on to contend, the language and ideals of the Constitution require judges to decide in good faith, exercising what Powell calls the constitutional virtues: candor, intellectual honesty, humility about the limits of constitutional adjudication, and willingness to admit that they do not have all the answers. Constitutional Conscience concludes that the need for these qualities in judges—as well as lawyers and citizens—is implicit in our constitutional practices, and that without them judicial review would forfeit both its own integrity and the credibility of the courts themselves.
Author : Brennan Center for Justice
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 0393041107
During his 34 years as a member of the Supreme Court, Justice William J. Brennan played a role in shaping American justice and society that is equaled by few others. Here Tom Wicker, anna Quindlen, Alan Dershowitz, Chief Justice William Rehnquist, and a host of others explore Justice Brennan's tremendous impact on civil liberties, criminal justice, equality, and government in a collection of colorful, passionate essays.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Judges
ISBN : STANFORD:36105062186072
Author : Bob Woodward,Scott Armstrong
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 717 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781439126349
The Brethren is the first detailed behind-the-scenes account of the Supreme Court in action. Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong have pierced its secrecy to give us an unprecedented view of the Chief and Associate Justices—maneuvering, arguing, politicking, compromising, and making decisions that affect every major area of American life.
Author : W. Wat Hopkins
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1991-08-28
Category : Education
ISBN : UCAL:B4374365
Hopkins examines the body of Justice Brennan's free expression jurisprudence. For him, Brennan was the prime protector of the rights of free speech and free press. He argues that Brennan's theory of free expression is built on the metaphor of a marketplace of ideas. He concludes that Brennan developed a philosophically sound First Amendment theory that was accepted by the Court, but is not being applied with the force necessary for it to be effective in practice.