The credentialed court : inside the cloistered, elite world of American justice / Benjamin H. Barton.
"The Credentialed Supreme Court starts by establishing just how different today's Justices are from their predecessors. The book combines two massive empirical studies of every Justices' background from John Jay to Amy Coney Barrett with short, readable bios of past greats to demonstr...
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New York :
Encounter Books,
[2022]
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the rise of our cloistered elite court
- Two Marshalls and a Whizzer
- Washington's first six: founders, politicians, entrepreneurs, and one cushing
- Washington's last four: bankruptcies, mental illness, and a Bacon face
- The lawyer's lawyers disappear
- Our lost lawyer-statesmen
- The triumph of the circuit court judge
- Changing case conferences to faculty meetings: the rise of law professors
- From the Acela Corridor to the Beltway
- From polymath autodidacts to hoop-jumpers extraordinaire
- Let's makek the justices weird again
- Bring back phronesis and range
- The narrowing of life's rich pageant: experiential diversity shrinks
- Let's get this show back on the road.