Persons and masks of the law : Cardozo, Holmes, Jefferson, and Wythe as makers of the masks
Legal thought in America has always focused on the rules rather than on the persons affected by the rules. This text aims to restore the balance by taking a person-centred view of the law. The author shows how even great jurists have chosen the "masks of the law" over persons.
Print Book, English, 1976
University of California Press, Berkeley, 1976
xxi, 206 pages ; 21 cm
9780520235236, 0520235231
927015517
Preface to the 2002 Edition Foreword 1. THE MASKS OF THE PARTICIPANTS 2. VIRGINIAN LIBERATORS 3. THE OVERLORD OF AMERICAN LAW AND THE SOVEREIGN OF COSTA RICA 4. THE PASSENGERS OF PALSGRAF 5. THE ALLIANCE OF LAW AND HISTORY Notes and References Index