Table of Contents
John Marshall and the genesis of tradition --Kent, Story, and Shaw: the judicial function and property rights --Roger Taney and the limits of judicial power --Miller, Bradley, Field, and the reconstructed Constitution --Political ideologies, professional norms, and the state judiciary in the late nineteenth century: Cooley and Doe --John Marshall Harlan I: the precursor --The tradition at the close of the nineteenth century --Holmes, Brandeis, and the origins of judicial liberalism --The four horsemen: the sources of judicial notoriety --Hughes and Stone: ironies of the chief justiceship --Personal versus impersonal judging: the dilemmas of Robert Jackson --Cardozo, Learned Hand, and Frank: the dialectic of freedom and constraint --Rationality and intuition in the process of judging: Roger Traynor --The mosaic of the Warren court: Frankfurter, Black, Warren, and Harlan --The tradition and the future --Appendix:Chronology of judicial service.