Laboratory of justice : the Supreme Court's 200-year struggle to integrate science and the law / Dav...
Laboratory of justice : the Supreme Court's 200-year struggle to integrate science and the law / Dav...
Laboratory of justice : the Supreme Court's 200-year struggle to integrate science and the law / David L. Faigman.
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New York : Times Books : Henry Holt, 2004.
Date
2004.
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N347.7326/ 27
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English
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xiii, 417 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. The lesson of leeches -- 2. If men were angels : a constitution by and for "corruptible human hands" -- 3. A covenant with death : Dred Scott and the biology of slavery -- 4. The roots of modernity : Holmes, Brandeis, and the new legal science -- 5. "Let us not become legal monks" : legal realism...
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New York : Times Books : Henry Holt, 2004.
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1st ed.
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New York (State)
Date Published
2004.
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"In recent decades, the Court has been confronted more and more by such questions of fact. Today's Court faces a range of issues - affirmative action, gay marriage, the right to die, privacy in a high-tech society, and the place of the word "God" in the Pledge of Allegiance - that all rest to some degree on science. As has been the case over the pa...
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Laboratory of justice : the Supreme Court's 200-year struggle to integrate science and the law / David L. Faigman.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [387] -417) and index.
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N347.7326/ 27
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0805072748
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347.7326
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991018432199702626
