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  title info:
    title: Leadership on the federal bench
    sub title: the craft and activism of Jack Weinstein
  name:
    name part: Morris, Jeffrey B. (Jeffrey Brandon)
    name part: 1941-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Biography
  genre: Biographies
  genre: Biographies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xx, 398 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: Leadership on the Federal Bench: The Craft and Activism of Jack Weinstein considers the ways a particularly gifted federal judge seized the opportunities available to district judges to influence the results of the cases before him, and employed the tools available to him to make policy having a national impact. In the book, author Jeffrey Morris considers the ways in which the judge, Jack Weinstein of the Eastern District of New York, has been limited by his position. This book adds to the slim literature about the policy-making role of district judges applying the work of legal historians, political scientists and those trained in the law. Focusing upon an admitted judicial activist - perhaps the most famous, innovative and controversial district judge sitting today - the book permits a close look at activism at the trial level. Leadership on the Federal Bench: The Craft and Activism of Jack Weinstein begins by analyzing the job of a federal district judge and why it is profitable to study Judge Weinstein. Related topics include Weinstein's background before appointment to the bench; the political and legal environment within which Weinstein has judged and the characteristics of the district in which he sat and its possible impact on him. Part of the book focuses on Weinstein's judicial output for each of his four decades on the bench. Cases are drawn from a diverse number of areas, among them the areas of civil rights, freedom of speech, search and seizures, organized crime and political corruption cases, evidence and procedure. Finally, conclusions are made on the role of district courts, judicial activism in general, along with a summary of Judge Weinstein's career.
  table of contents: "All the facts of real life revealed in our work" : the "job" of a federal district judge -- The years before appointment to the bench, 1921-67 -- The political and legal environment within which Jack Weinstein judged : the nation and the district, 1967-2007 -- Characteristics of Jack Weinstein's judging -- "An activist seeker of troublesome issues" : Jack Weinstein's first decade on the bench, 1967-76 -- "Making the unequal equal through the alchemy of the law :" growing renown, 1977-86 -- "Imaginative reformer" and "vindicator of the ideal of a judge" : Jack Weinstein's work, 1987-96 -- "Under the blindfold, does justice weep?" : Jack Weinstein and sentencing -- "Feeling like the Man of la Mancha pursuing enamored justice" : Jack Weinstein's judicial work, 1997-2007 -- Bringing justice to large groups of people : mass torts and class actions (I) -- Bringing justice to large groups of people : mass torts and class actions (II).
  note: Jeffrey B. Morris.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-ny
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Weinstein, Jack B
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: District Court (New York : Eastern District)
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Weinstein, Jack B
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: District Court (New York : Eastern District)
  subject:
    topic: Judges
    geographic: New York (State)
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
    topic: Government
    topic: Judicial Branch
  subject:
    topic: LAW
    topic: Legal Services
  subject:
    topic: LAW
    topic: Civil Procedure
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
    topic: Lawyers & Judges
  subject:
    topic: Judges
  subject:
    geographic: New York (State)
  classification: KF373.W3485 M67 2011eb
  classification: 347.73/14092
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Leadership on the federal bench
    name:
      name part: Morris, Jeffrey Brandon, 1941-
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2011
    identifier: (DLC) 2011005306
    identifier: (OCoLC)701495058
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  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 110610
    record change date: 20260318185120.5
    record identifier: in00005706690
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng