The Politics of Judicial Interpretation: The Federal Courts, Department of Justice, and Civil Rights, 1866-1876

This landmark work of Constitutional and legal history is the leading account of the ways in which federal judges, attorneys, and other law officers defined a new era of civil and political rights in the South and implemented the revolutionary 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments during Reconstruction.

"Should be required reading . . . for all historians, jurists, lawyers, political scientists, and government officials who in one way or another are responsible for understanding and interpreting our civil rights past."--Harold M. Hyman, Journal of Southern History

"Important, richly researched. . . . the fullest account now available."--American Journal of Legal History

Author: Robert J. Kaczorowski
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 11/01/2004
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.46w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780823223824

About the Author

Robert J. Kaczorowski, Professor of Law and Director of the Condon Institute in Legal History at Fordham University School of Law, is also co-editor of Constitutionalism in American Culture: Writing the New Constitutional History.