Persons and Masks of the Law: Cardozo, Holmes, Jefferson, and Wythe as Makers of the Masks

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University of California Press, 29 may 2002 - 206 páginas
"Noonan's analyses challenge even as they charm; simultaneously they constitute both pieces of creative scholarship and literary gems. I have read and re-read this slim volume and have strongly recommended it to students as an example of how an imaginative scholar can start with what seems commonplace and force us to reexamine our own conclusions--and occasionally values."—Walter F. Murphy, author of American Constitutional Interpretation

"A classic work, highly influential, widely cited."—Martin Shapiro, author of Seeking the Center



"Persons and Masks of the Law is a brilliant conception, beautifully realized. I congratulate the author on this sparely and wholly expressed idea."—Robert K. Merton, Columbia University

"A beautifully written and probing discussion by an eminent legal philosopher. Professor Noonan strips the façade from judge-made law, and exposes the often unpleasant reality that citizens must confront daily."—Norman Dorsen, New York University School of Law

"I am struck by the timelessness of the work. I have always thought of it as a great book. What I now see is that it is a book that will never be out of date. The reason is simple: it brings a great legal mind of our own time into conversation with the greatest legal minds of the past."—Robert P. George, author of The Clash of Orthodoxies

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The Masks of the Participants
3
Virginian Liberators
29
The Overlord of American Law and
65
The Passengers of Palsgraf III
111
The Alliance of Law and History
152
Notes and References
171
Index
199
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John T. Noonan Jr. has served as Judge on the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit since 1986. He is Robbins Professor Emeritus at Boalt School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of prize-winning work in history, philosophy, and theology. His books include The Lustre of Our Country: The American Experience of Religious Freedom (1998), Bribes (1988) and The Antelope: The Ordeal of the Recaptured Africans in the Administrations of James Monroe and John Quincy Adams (1977), all from California.

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