LAW IS JUSTICE

A Collection of Cardozos Important Opinions Edited by A L Sainer with a foreword by Hon Robert F Wagner Originally published New York Ad Press Ltd 1938 Frontispiece xv 441 pp A collection of notable opinions by the great judge in the areas of civil rights crime contractual relations injuries estates labor and social matters and international relations Cardozos opinions bear the mark of careful preparation of patient and laborious research of a profound understanding of legal principles and their ethical social and economic setting BENJAMIN N CARDOZO 18701938 an associate justice of the Supreme Court was one of the most influential American jurists of the twentieth century He is the author of The Nature of the Judicial Process 1921 The Paradoxes of Legal Science 1928 and What Medicine Can Do for Law 1930