{"product_id":"justice-accused-antislavery-and-the-judicial-process-9780300032529","title":"Justice Accused: Antislavery and the Judicial Process","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Robert M. Cover\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Legal History\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","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47615316459671,"sku":"9780300032529","price":4195.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780300032529.webp?v=1775099886","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/justice-accused-antislavery-and-the-judicial-process-9780300032529","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}