The Southern Judicial Tradition

State Judges and Sectional Distinctiveness, 1790-1890

Timothy S. Huebner (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2008
University of Georgia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8203-3236-9 (ISBN)

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This first book to examine the lives and work of nineteenth-century southern judges explores the emergence of a southern judiciary and the effects of regional peculiarities and attitudes on legal development. Drawing on the judicial opinions and private correspondence of six chief justices whose careers span both the region and the century, Timothy S. Huebner analyzes their conceptions of their roles and the substance of their opinions related to cases involving homicide, economic development, federalism, and race. Examining judges both on and off the bench—as formulators of law and as citizens whose lives were intertwined with southern values—Huebner reveals the tensions that sometimes arose out of loyalties to sectional principles and national professional consciousness. He exposes the myth of southern leniency in appellate homicide decisions and also shows how the southern judiciary contributed to and reflected larger trends in American legal development. This book adds to our understanding of both southern distinctiveness and American legal culture.

TIMOTHY S. HUEBNER, an associate professor of history at Rhodes College, is author of The Taney Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy and coeditor, with Kermit L. Hall, of Major Problems in American Constitutional History, second edition. He and Paul Finkelman edit the series Studies in the Legal History of the South.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.12.2008
Reihe/Serie	Studies in the Legal History of the South
Zusatzinfo	8 photos
Verlagsort	Georgia
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-8203-3236-4 / 0820332364
ISBN-13	978-0-8203-3236-9 / 9780820332369
Zustand	Neuware