{"product_id":"justice-accused","title":"Justice Accused","description":"What should a judge do when he must hand down a ruling based on a law that he considers unjust or oppressive? This question is examined through a series of problems concerning unjust law that arose with respect to slavery in nineteenth-century America.\u003cbr\u003e“Cover’s book is splendid in many ways. His legal history and legal philosophy are both first class. . . . This is, for a change, an interdisciplinary work that is a credit to both disciplines.”—Ronald Dworkin, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Scholars should be grateful to Cover for his often brilliant illumination of tensions created in judges by changing eighteenth- and nineteenth-century jurisprudential attitudes and legal standards. . . An exciting adventure in interdisciplinary history.”—Harold M. Hyman, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A most articulate, sophisticated, and learned defense of legal formalism. . . Deserves and needs to be widely read.”—Don Roper, \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An excellent illustration of the way in which a burning moral issue relates to the American judicial process. The book thus has both historical value and a very immediate importance.”—Edwards A. Stettner, \u003ci\u003eAnnals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A really fine book, an important contribution to law and to history.”—Louis H. Pollak","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54218932814168,"sku":"9780300032529","price":31.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/justice-accused","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}