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Article: Cardozo.(Review)
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- Michigan Law Review
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- May 1, 2000
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CARDOZO. By Andrew L. Kaufman. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1998. Pp. xii, 731. Cloth, $55; paper, $19.96.
Benjamin Cardozo was one of the towering figures of American law in the twentieth century. Among state court judges he had no peer.(1) His reputation stems principally from his eighteen years on the New York Court of Appeals; nearly seventy years after he left that court many of his opinions, as well as some of his nonjudicial writings, remain staples of legal education. He capped his career with a glittering tenure of six years on the United States Supreme Court during one of the most critical periods in its history. Though he was the junior justice ...