David J. Brewer : the life of a Supreme Court justice, 1837-1910 /
This informative new book is the first biography of David J. Brewer, an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1889 to 1910 and certainly one of the most visible judges of his time. Michael J. Brodhead's candid account covers Brewer's entire judicial career as well as hi...
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
©1994.
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Table of Contents:
- The path to the bench: from Smyrna to Kansas, 1837-1862
- Judge and citizen: Leavenworth, 1863-1870
- "A coterie of able men": Brewer and the Kansas Supreme Court on corporations, the public interest, politics, and crime, 1871-1884
- The substance of right: Brewer and the Kansas Supreme Court on prohibition, family law, women's rights, race questions, and the legal profession, 1871-1884
- "An empire in itself": the Eighth Circuit, 1884-1889
- A centennial justice: elevation to the united states supreme court
- The court and the economic realm: regulation, public finance, trusts, patents, and land, 1890-1900
- The court and humanity: minorities, labor, crime, and legal ethics, 1890-1900
- Rostrum and fireside: off-the-bench activity, 1890-1900
- Rates, trusts, and taxes: the court and the commerce, police, and taxing powers, 1901-1910
- Facts and law: responses to reform, 1901-1910.