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William E Nelson 
In Pursuit of Right and Justice 
Edward Weinfeld as Lawyer and Judge

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In Pursuit of Right and Justice chronicles the life of the United States District Court’s Judge Edward Weinfeld, from his humble Lower East Side origins to his distinction as one of the nation’s most respected federal judges. Judge Edward Weinfeld’s personal growth and socio-economic mobility provides an excellent illustration of how Catholics and Jews descended from turn-of-the-century immigrants were assimilated into the mainstream of New York and American life during the course of the twentieth century. Weinfeld left a rich collection of personal papers that William E. Nelson examines, which depict the compromises and sacrifices Weinfeld had to make to attain professional advancement. Weinfeld’s jurisprudence remained closely tied to his own personal values and to the historical contexts in which cases came to his court.
Nelson aptly describes how Weinfeld strove to avoid making new law. He tried to make decisions on preexisting rules or bedrock legal principles; he achieved just results by searching for and finding facts that called those rules into play. Weinfeld’s vision of justice was simultaneously a liberal one that enabled him to develop law that reflected societal change, and an apolitical one that did not rest on contested policy judgments.

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William E. Nelson served as law clerk to Judge Edward Weinfeld during 1965-66. He later was law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White. He is currently professor of law at New York University.
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Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9780814758946 ● Taille du fichier 2.3 MB ● Maison d’édition NYU Press ● Pays US ● Publié 2004 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 5479990 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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