What Medicine Can Do For Law by Benjamin N Cardozo

What Medicine Can Do For Law by Benjamin N Cardozo

Benjamin Cardozo's Anniversary Discourse address to the New York Academy of Medicine, November 1, 1928, delivered when he was Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals, State of New York. Originally published: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1930. 52 pp.
This noteworthy address, with its appreciation of the scientific problems involved, its courage and social vision, will go down in history as one of the most valuable contributions in our time to medico-legal jurisprudence.--Bernard Lloyd Shientag, Moulders of Legal Thought 39
BENJAMIN N. CARDOZO 1870-1938] was an associate justice of the Supreme Court. One of the most influential American jurists of the twentieth century, his books include The Nature of the Judicial Process (1921) and The Paradoxes of Legal Science (1928).

Benjamin Nathan Cardozo was a well-known American lawyer and associate Supreme Court Justice who lived from 1870 to 1938. Cardozo is known for his modesty, philosophy, and vibrant written style, as well as his considerable influence on the evolution of American common law in the twentieth century. Cardozo only served on the Supreme Court for six years, from 1932 to 1938, and the majority of his historic rulings came during his eighteen-year stint on the New York Court of Appeals, the state's highest court. Cardozo was nominated to the Supreme Court of the United States by President Herbert Hoover in 1932 to replace Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes. The New York Times wrote of Cardozo's appointment, less, if ever, has an appointment been so widely praised in the annals of the Court.

Cardozo's appointment by a Republican president has been referred to as one of the few Supreme Court appointments in history that was made solely on the basis of the nominee's contribution to law, rather than party or politics. Yet, Hoover was running for re-election, and would eventually face Franklin Roosevelt in the election, so a bigger political calculation may have been at work. On February 24, Cardozo was confirmed by the Senate in a unanimous voice vote. On the day of Cardozo's confirmation, March 1, 1932, in a radio transmission, Clarence C.

Senator Dill of Washington, a Democrat, considered Hoover's selection of Cardozo the finest deed of his presidency. The entire faculty of the University of Chicago Law School, as well as the deans of Harvard, Yale, and Columbia law schools, had pushed Hoover to nominate him. Justice Harlan Fiske Stone pleaded with Hoover to pick Cardozo, even promising to resign to make way for him if Hoover had his heart set on someone else (Stone had previously advised Calvin Coolidge to nominate Cardozo rather than himself in 1925). Hoover, on the other hand, was first hesitant: there were already two New York justices on the court, as well as a Jew; in addition, Justice James McReynolds was a notorious anti-Semite.

When William E. Grassley, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was elected, Borah of Idaho threw his weight behind Cardozo, but Hoover eventually gave in to the pressure. Cardozo, together with Brandeis and Stone, constituted a member of the Three Musketeers, which was the Supreme Court's liberal faction.

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Title	What Medicine Can Do For Law
Author	Benjamin N Cardozo
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Publisher	Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Year published	2014-11-18
Number of pages	62
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