E. Nathaniel E. Nathaniel Gates Benjamin N. Cardozo
Explores the concept of "race" The term "race," which originally denoted genealogical or class identity, has in the comparatively brief span of 300 years taken on an entirely new meaning. In the wake of the Enlightenment it came to be applied to social groups. This ideological transformation coupled with a dogmatic insistence that the groups so designated were natural, and not socially created, gave birth to the modern notion of "races" as genetically distinct entities. The results of this view were the encoding of "race" and "racial" hierarchies in law, literature, and culture. How...
Explores the concept of "race" The term "race," which originally denoted genealogical or class identity, has in the comparatively brief span of 30...
Explores the concept of "race" The term "race," which originally denoted genealogical or class identity, has in the comparatively brief span of 300 years taken on an entirely new meaning. In the wake of the Enlightenment it came to be applied to social groups. This ideological transformation coupled with a dogmatic insistence that the groups so designated were natural, and not socially created, gave birth to the modern notion of "races" as genetically distinct entities. The results of this view were the encoding of "race" and "racial" hierarchies in law, literature, and culture. How...
Explores the concept of "race" The term "race," which originally denoted genealogical or class identity, has in the comparatively brief span of 30...
Cardozo examines the meaning of justice, the science of values and the relationship between individual and society. Originally published: New York: Columbia University Press, 1928. v, 142 pp. His many references in these lectures to Greek philosophy show how great a part his early classical training played in the formation of his ideas; in relating his general principles to the concrete cases which, in his words, he used as a kind of legal litmus paper, he was a true Aristotelian. --ARTHUR L. GOODHART, Five Jewish Lawyers of the Common Law 59-60. The paradoxes or puzzles of legal...
Cardozo examines the meaning of justice, the science of values and the relationship between individual and society. Originally published: New York: Co...
Benjamin Cardozo's Anniversary Discourse address to the New York Academy of Medicine, November 1, 1928, delivered when he was Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals, State of New York. Originally published: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1930. 52 pp. "This noteworthy address, with its appreciation of the scientific problems involved, its courage and social vision, will go down in history as one of the most valuable contributions in our time to medico-legal jurisprudence."--Bernard Lloyd Shientag, Moulders of Legal Thought 39 BENJAMIN N. CARDOZO 1870-1938] was an associate justice of the...
Benjamin Cardozo's Anniversary Discourse address to the New York Academy of Medicine, November 1, 1928, delivered when he was Chief Justice of the Cou...
