Wildy Logo
(020) 7242 5778
enquiries@wildy.com

Book of the Month

Cover of Munkman on Employer's Liability

Munkman on Employer's Liability

Edited by: Marcus Pilgerstorfer KC
Price: £229.99

Adoption Law:
A Practical Guide 2nd ed




Welcome to Wildys

Watch


Enquiries of Local Authorities
and Water Companies:
A Practical Guide 7th ed



 Keith Pugsley, Ken Miles


Offers for Newly Called Barristers & Students

Special Discounts for Newly Called & Students

Read More ...


Secondhand & Out of Print

Browse Secondhand Online

Read More...


Easter Closing

We will be closed from 5pm Thursday 17th April for the Easter Bank Holidays, re-opening at 8.30am on Tuesday 22nd April. Any orders placed during this period will be processed when we re-open.

Hide this message

The Legalist Reformation: Law, Politics, and Ideology in New York, 1920-1980


ISBN13: 9780807825914
ISBN: 0807825913
Published: March 2001
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Country of Publication: USA
Format: Hardback
Price: Out of print
Paperback edition price on application, ISBN13 9780807855041



How state judges brought minorities into the mainstream Based on a detailed examination of New York case law, this pathbreaking book shows how law, politics, and ideology in the state changed in tandem between 1920 and 1980. Early twentieth-century New York was the scene of intense struggle between white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant upper and middle clases located primarily in the upstate region and the impoverished, mainly Jewish and Roman Catholic, immigrant underclass centered in New York City. Beginning in the 1920s, however, state court judges such as Benjamin N. Cardozo, Henry J. Friendly, Learned Hand, and Harlan Fiske Stone used the law to facilitate entry of the underclass into the economic and social mainstream and to promote tolerance among all New Yorkers. Ultimately, says William Nelson, a new legal ideology was created. By the late 1930s, New Yorkers had begun to reconceptualize social conflict not along class lines but in terms of the power of majorities and the rights of minorities. In the process, they constructed a new approach to law and politics. Though doctrinal change began to slow by the 1960s, the main ambitions of the legalist reformation - liberty, equality, h