Law professors : three centuries of shaping American law /
"There is no nation in which the teachers of law play a more prominent role than in the United States. In this unique volume Stephen Presser, a law professor for four decades, explains how his colleagues have both furthered and frustrated the American ideals that ours is a government of laws no...
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St. Paul, MN :
West Academic Publishing,
2017
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- English Common Law Background of American Law
- Common Law and Popular Sovereignty
- Towards an American Common and Constitutional Law
- Law as Science?
- The Life of the Law as Experience
- An Elite Legal Intellectual as Moralist and Reformer
- Towards Sociological Jurisprudence
- Advancing American Legal Realism
- Harvard School of Reflexive Judicial Deference
- The Law Professor as Fictional Modern Cambridge Don and Denizen of the Corridors of Power
- Are There Neutral and General Principles of Constitutional Law?
- Justifying the Warren Court
- The American Law Professor as Aloof Olympian
- Critical Legal Studies : Law and the Movement
- The Economic Approach to Law
- Popular Constitutionalism and the Unwritten Constitution
- Towards a Feminist Critique of Law
- Against the Impoverishment of Legal Discourse
- The Lawyer as Romantic
- Towards Originalism and Textualism
- Critical Race Theory
- Changing the Legal Fabric of the National Government Towards Libertarian Paternalism
- The Law Professor as President
- Conclusion