Volume contains: 171 AD 776 (Bergstrom v. Ritz-Carlton) 172 AD 947 (Breitung v. Wight et al.) 172 AD 952 (Carmisciano v. Mason-Seaman Transportation Co) 172 AD 353 (Cheever v. Cheever and Williamson) 171 AD 561 (City of New York v. McCarthy) 172 AD 946 (Robert Colin Co v. Wolff et al.) 172 AD 955 (Court v. Bankers Trust Co) 171 AD 422 (De Cordova v. Sanville) 171 AD 507 (Dittenfass v. Horsley et al.)
What makes a great judge? How are reputations forged? Why do some reputations endure, while others crumble? And how can we know whether a reputation is fairly deserved? In this ambitious book, Richard Posner confronts these questions in the case of Benjamin Cardozo. The result is both a revealing portrait of one of the most influential legal minds of our century and a model for a new kind of study—a balanced, objective, critical assessment of a judicial career. "The present compact and unflaggingly interesting volume . . . is a full-bodied scholarly biography. . . .It is illuminating in itself, and will serve as a significant contribution."—Paul A. Freund, New York Times Book Review