Cardozo

Andrew L. Kaufman

  • Winner of the 1999 Scribes Book Award Sponsored by the American Society of Writers on Legal Subjects
  • Winner of the Erwin N. Griswold Prize of the Supreme Court Historical Society
  • Winner of the 1998 Archives Week Award for Excellence in Research Using the Holdings of the State Archives, from the New York Board of Regents and the New York State Archives
  • A Choice Outstanding Academic Book

Acknowledgments

Beginnings: 1870-1891

1. Cardozo's Heritage: The Sephardim and Tammany Hall

2. Young Cardozo

3. Columbia Law School

Lawyer: 1891-1914

4. Apprenticeship

5. Developing a Practice

6. Lawyer's Lawyer

Judge: 1914-1932

7. New York Supreme Court

8. The Job of a Judge

9. Private Life and Private Views

10. A Judge's Service

11. Chief Judge

Doing the Law's Work: 1914-1932

12. The Nature of the Judicial Process

13. Equity, Individual Justice, and the Punctilio of Honor

14. The Law of Negligence: Duty to Strangers

15. Liability and Duty: MacPherson v. Buick

16. Fireworks and Foreseeability: Palsgraf

17. Contracts and Promises

18. Moral Obligation and Damages

19. Constitutional and International Law

20. Criminal Law

21. Property, Corporations, the Legal Profession, and Legislative Policy

22. A Puzzle, Candor, and Style

The Supreme Court: 1932-1938

23. Appointment

24. Life in Washington

25. State Regulatory Power and the Constitution

26. National Regulatory Power and the Constitution

27. Civil Liberties, Race, and Other Supreme Court Issues

28. Legacy

Notes

Index of Cases

General Index

  • Cover: Cardozo
  • A photo of the author

Andrew L. Kaufman is Charles Stebbins Fairchild Professor of Law, Harvard Law School.