Justice and empathy : toward a constitutional ideal / Robert A. Burt and Frank Iacobucci.
Material type: TextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2018Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780300231854
- United States. Supreme Court
- Judicial power -- United States
- Constitutional law -- Social aspects -- United States
- Political questions and judicial power -- United States
- Sociological jurisprudence
- Law
- United States of America, USA
- Constitution: government & the state
- Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law
- Legal systems: courts & procedure
- Constitutional & administrative law: general
- 347.7312 23
- KF5130 .B874 2018
Previously issued in print: 2017.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Supreme Court long considered its highest mission to be the protection of individual liberty from intrusion by government, but the court shifted its focus to social and economic equality. This text explores this shift and its implications, especially for the legal protection of the vulnerable.
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