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Gertrude Jenkins, Unplugged, Todd C. Peppers Jan 2022

Gertrude Jenkins, Unplugged, Todd C. Peppers

Scholarly Articles

Gertrude Jenkins worked for U.S. Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone until his death in 1946. Adept at multi-tasking, she also ran a boarding house to make more money. A position as a floating secretary was created for Jenkins at the Court, and she worked in other chambers as well as the Court library until October 1949, when she accepted a position in Justice Frankfurter’s chambers. Jenkins retired in August 1953.

Gertrude Jenkins’s letters neither shed light on the grand constitutional issues of her day nor provide insights into the justices’ jurisprudential views. They will not cause historians to radically reevaluate …


Cardozo, The Canon And Some Critical Thoughts About Pedagogy, Deborah W. Post Jan 2018

Cardozo, The Canon And Some Critical Thoughts About Pedagogy, Deborah W. Post

Touro Law Review

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Cardozo, Andrew L. Kaufman Jan 2018

Cardozo, Andrew L. Kaufman

Touro Law Review

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Benjamin Cardozo And The Death Of The Common Law, John C. P. Goldberg Jan 2018

Benjamin Cardozo And The Death Of The Common Law, John C. P. Goldberg

Touro Law Review

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Cardozo And The Civil Jury, Michael D. Green, Ashley Dimuzio Jan 2018

Cardozo And The Civil Jury, Michael D. Green, Ashley Dimuzio

Touro Law Review

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Justice Cardozo’S The Nature Of The Judicial Process: A Case Study, Judge Kermit V. Lipez Jan 2018

Justice Cardozo’S The Nature Of The Judicial Process: A Case Study, Judge Kermit V. Lipez

Touro Law Review

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Palsgraf V. Long Island R.R.: Its Historical Context, William E. Nelson Jan 2018

Palsgraf V. Long Island R.R.: Its Historical Context, William E. Nelson

Touro Law Review

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Let Us Now Praise Famous Judges: Exploring The Roles Of Judicial "Intuition" And "Activism" In American Law, Rodney A. Smolla Nov 2005

Let Us Now Praise Famous Judges: Exploring The Roles Of Judicial "Intuition" And "Activism" In American Law, Rodney A. Smolla

University of Richmond Law Review

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Benjamin N. Cardozo: Sixty Years After His Appointment As New York's Chief Judge, Jay C. Carlisle Jan 1988

Benjamin N. Cardozo: Sixty Years After His Appointment As New York's Chief Judge, Jay C. Carlisle

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

Sixty years after his appointment as Chief Judge of the New York State Court of Appeals, Benjamin N. Cardozo’s place in history as one of the country's most outstanding jurists and preeminent legal philosophers is secure. He is· widely acclaimed for being a successful practitioner, a brilliant legal scholar and a man who is ranked among the preeminent American judges, along with Marshall, Kent, Story and Holmes. He was a giant of his era who, while spending all but six years of his professional life in New York, exerted a powerful national influence upon his own times.