A Book of Legal Lists: The Best and Worst in American Law, with 150 Court and Judge Trivia Questions

ISBN-13: 9780195125023 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 304 str.

Bernard Schwartz

Opis

From John Marshall, the greatest Supreme Court Justice, to Alfred Moore, one of the worst, Bernard Schwartz's A Book of Legal Lists -- the first ever compiled -- provides the Ten Bests and Worsts in American law and also includes answers to 150 trivia questions about the legal world. From disappointments like Plessy v. Ferguson (number two on the Ten Worst Supreme Court Decisions list), which gave the lie to the American ideal "that all men are created equal," to lesser known but no less important decisions such as the 1933 United States v. One Book Called "Ulysses" (number nine on the Ten Greatest Non-Supreme Court Decisions), the landmark First Amendment case that eased the law governing censorship, Bernard Schwartz provides legal experts and non-experts alike with entertaining information in a format that can be found nowhere else.

Recenzje

'Based on US law, here is everything for the compulsive list compiler from the ten worst supreme court decisions to the ten greatest legal films. A collection of trivia questions and answers.'

O autorze

Bernard Schwartz, the Chapman Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tulsa, has written the definitive judicial biography of Chief Justice Earl Warren, as well as many other books on the Supreme Court, including Decision: How the Supreme Court Decides Cases, A History of the Supreme Court, The Reins of Power, and The Unpublished Opinions of the Rehnquist Court.