Leadership on the Federal Bench The Craft and Activism of Jack Weinstein 1st Edition by Jeffrey Morris ISBN 978-0199772414 019977241X

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ISBN 10:  019977241X

ISBN 13: 978-0199772414

Author: Jeffrey B. Morris

 Leadership on the Federal Bench: The Craft and Activism of Jack Weinstein considers the ways a particularly gifted federal judge seized the opportunities available to district judges to influence the results of the cases before him, and employed the tools available to him to make policy having a national impact. In the book, author Jeffrey Morris considers the ways in which the judge, Jack Weinstein of the Eastern District of New York, has been limited by his position. This book adds to the slim literature about the policy-making role of district judges applying the work of legal historians, political scientists and those trained in the law. Focusing upon an admitted judicial activist – perhaps the most famous, innovative and controversial district judge sitting today – the book permits a close look at activism at the trial level.
Leadership on the Federal Bench: The Craft and Activism of Jack Weinstein begins by analyzing the job of a federal district judge and why it is profitable to study Judge Weinstein. Related topics include Weinstein’s background before appointment to the bench; the political and legal environment within which Weinstein has judged and the characteristics of the district in which he sat and its possible impact on him. Part of the book focuses on Weinstein’s judicial output for each of his four decades on the bench. Cases are drawn from a diverse number of areas, among them the areas of civil rights, freedom of speech, search and seizures, organized crime and political corruption cases, evidence and procedure. Finally, conclusions are made on the role of district courts, judicial activism in general, along with a summary of Judge Weinstein’s career.

Table of contents: 

Chapter 1. “All The Facts of Real Life Revealed in Our Work”: The “Job” of a Federal District Judge
Chapter 2. The Years Before Appointment to the Bench, 1921-1967
Chapter 3. The Political and Legal Environment within which Jack Weinstein Judged: Nation and District, 1967 to Date
Chapter 4. Characteristics of Jack Weinstein’s Judging
Chapter 5. “An Activist Seeker of Troublesome Issues”: Jack Weinstein’s First Decade on the Bench, 1967-1976
Chapter 6. “Making the Unequal Equal through the Alchemy of the Law”: Growing Renown, 1977-1986
Chapter 7. “Imaginative Reformer” and “Vindicator of the Ideal of the Judge”: Jack Weinstein’s Work, 1987-1996
Chapter 8. “Under the Blindfold, Does Justice Weep?”: Jack Weinstein and Sentencing
Chapter 9. Feeling “Like the Man of La Mancha Pursuing Enamored Justice”: Weinstein’s Judicial Work, 1997-2007 and Beyond
Chapter 10. Bringing Justice to Large Groups of People: Mass Torts and Class Actions (I)
Chapter 11. Bringing Justice to Large Groups of People: Mass Torts and Class Actions (II)

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