Pillars of Justice : : Lawyers and the Liberal Tradition / / Owen Fiss.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Fiss, Owen,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 13 halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; I. The Struggle for Civil Rights --; 1. Thurgood Marshall: The Law’s Promise --; 2. William Brennan: A Life Lived Twice --; 3. John Doar: To Stand for What Is Right --; 4. Burke Marshall: A Reluctant Hero --; II. Legal Education and the Culture of Liberalism --; 5. Harry Kalven: A Tenth Justice --; 6. Eugene Rostow: The Law according to Yale --; 7. Arthur Leff: Making Coffee and Other Duties of Citizenship --; 9. Joseph Goldstein: The Scholar as Sovereign --; III. The Fate of the Law --; 10. Carlos Nino: The Death of a Public Intellectual --; 11. Robert Cover: Cases and Materials --; 12. Morton Horwitz: Timeless Truths --; 13. Aharon Barak: Law Is Everywhere --; Coda --; Toiling in Eden --; Sources and Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674977341; 9783110543315
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674977341
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Owen Fiss.

The constitutional theorist Owen Fiss explores the purpose and possibilities of life in the law through a moving account of thirteen lawyers who shaped the legal world during the past half century. He tries to identify the unique qualities of mind and character that made these individuals so important to the institutions and principles they served.