{"product_id":"justice-accused-paperback","title":"Justice Accused: Antislavery and the Judicial Process - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert M. Cover\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat should a judge do when he must hand down a ruling based on a law that he considers unjust or oppressive? This question is examined through a series of problems concerning unjust law that arose with respect to slavery in nineteenth-century America.\u003cbr\u003e\"Cover's book is splendid in many ways. His legal history and legal philosophy are both first class. . . . This is, for a change, an interdisciplinary work that is a credit to both disciplines.\"--Ronald Dworkin, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Scholars should be grateful to Cover for his often brilliant illumination of tensions created in judges by changing eighteenth- and nineteenth-century jurisprudential attitudes and legal standards. . . An exciting adventure in interdisciplinary history.\"--Harold M. Hyman, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A most articulate, sophisticated, and learned defense of legal formalism. . . Deserves and needs to be widely read.\"--Don Roper, \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An excellent illustration of the way in which a burning moral issue relates to the American judicial process. The book thus has both historical value and a very immediate importance.\"--Edwards A. Stettner, \u003ci\u003eAnnals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A really fine book, an important contribution to law and to history.\"--Louis H. Pollak\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 322\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.14 x 9.18 x 6.15 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 10, 1984\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42134721069191,"sku":"9780300032529","price":79.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/dc3a38777af76658b8dba48836c32e6a.webp?v=1732644019","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/justice-accused-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}