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  Benjamin N. Cardozo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (May 24, 1870–July 9, 1938) was a distinguished American jurist who is remembered not only for his landmark decisions on negligence but also his modesty and philosophy.
Cardozo's ancestors were Sephardic Jews who immigrated to the United States in the 1740s and 1750s from Portugal via the Netherlands and England.
Albert Cardozo was himself a justice of the Supreme Court of New York (the state's general trial court) until he was implicated in a judicial corruption scandal, sparked by the Erie Railway takeover wars, in 1868.
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 Benjamin Cardozo
Shortly after Cardozo was born, his father Albert was implicated in a judicial corruption scandal that was sparked by the Erie Railway takeover wars, in which parties contending for the control of the Erie Railway used the judicial system in a way that perverted the law.
Cardozo was appointed to a seat on the Court of Appeals in 1917, and was elected to that seat the same year.
Cardozo wrote a dissent suggesting that the formal distinct between production/commerce was untenable, because "the law is not indifferent to considerations of degree." The next year, in NLRB v.
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 Cardozo
Cardozo was no saint, though, for his life included the toughness of his many years as an ambitious lawyer, and his character contained such human failings as vanity and prejudice; however, he was a good man with extraordinary talents.
Cardozo was also involved in many of the notorious cases in which some of the leading capitalists of the nineteenth century sought to use the courts to further their business schemes.
Benjamin, however, had a difficult start; in his early days of life, he was reported to be in "feeble health." The day after the twins were born, Albert Cardozo was the "orator of the day" at the laying of the cornerstone of a new building at Mt. Sinai Hospital.
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 Benjamin N. Cardozo -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (May 24, 1870–July 9, 1938) was a distinguished (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American jurist who is remembered not only for his landmark decisions on negligence but also his modesty and philosophy.
In 1921, Cardozo gave the (Click link for more info and facts about Storrs) Storrs lectures at (English philanthropist who made contributions to a college in Connecticut that was renamed in his honor (1649-1721)) Yale, which was later published as The Nature of the Judicial Process, a book that remains valuable to judges today.
As far as is known, Benjamin Cardozo led the life of a (An unmarried person who has taken a religious vow of chastity) celibate.
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Cardozo believed there was room for judicial lawmaking in the common law and promoted his activist philosophy not only in his decisions, but in his many lectures and treatises.
Notwithstanding his progressive attitude, Cardozo still believed that the legislative and executive branches of government were primarily responsible for instituting social change in a democratic society and he would consistently defer to their prerogatives.
Benjamin Cardozo wrote prolifically, including: The Nature of the Judicial Process (1921), The Growth of the Law (1924), The Paradoxes of Legal Science (1928) as well as Law and Literature and Other Essays and Addresses (1931).
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 Benjamin N. Cardozo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (and his twin sister) were the youngest of six children born to a distinguished family in New York.
Cardozo's father resigned from the bench rather than risk impeachment for his involvement with the Tweed machine in New York City; he maintained a successful law practice after he left the bench.
Cardozo was elected chief judge of his court and served with distinction until President Herbert Hoover nominated him to succeed Oliver Wendell Holmes on the Supreme Court.
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 JURI 4325 - Perspectives on the Legal Process
Cardozo's father had been a corrupt lower court judge allied with the Tweed Ring in New York, who suffered disgrace when Tweed's organization was broken up.
Cardozo outlines three methods of judicial decisionmaking: what he calls (1) the method of philosophy, (2) the method of history, and (3) the method of sociology.
Instead, Cardozo's opinion predicated liability on foreseeability of the harm and claimed to discover authority in the underlying reasoning of the previous cases.
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 Benjamin Cardozo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Cardozo was born in New York City, where his ancestors had settled prior to the American Revolution.
Cardozo practiced law for 22 years, distinguishing himself as a "lawyer's lawyer." In 1913 he was elected justice of the Supreme Court of New York, and shortly thereafter was designated temporary associate judge of the Court of Appeals, the highest appeal court of the state.
Cardozo is particularly noted for his original thinking as expounded in his books: Nature of the Judicial Process (1921), Growth of the Law (1924), Paradoxes of Legal Science (1928), and Law and Literature (1930).
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 Justice Benjamin Cardozo
Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo was a distinguished jurist who had been appointed to the court by President Hoover to fill the seat of the legendary Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Modest in demeanor and with a strong philosophical bent, he was the author of four volumes of essays on the philosophy of law prior to being appointed to the court.
His style is unmistakable: limpid clarity, conciseness suffused with a moral almost spiritual luminosity, and a command of historical material that is unrivaled in the entire common-law tradition.
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 BOOKSTORE: Books by and About Benjamin Cardozo
Benjamin Cardozo was born in New York City.
Cardozo was not a radical, but he was imbued with the spirit of democracy.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, upon the death of Cardozo, called this scholar and wise man, a "great soul." Cardozo was devoted to the welfare of the nation, defended the rights of the individual, strove for harmony between contradictory interests staunchly opposed selfish interests, and was a courageous fighter for liberty and truth.
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 Harvard University Press/Cardozo
Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, unarguably one of the most outstanding judges of the twentieth century, is a man whose name remains prominent and whose contributions to the law remain relevant.
Cardozo was a progressive judge who understood and defended the proposition that judge-made law must be adapted to modern conditions.
Cardozo's family ties to the Jewish community were a particularly significant factor in shaping his life, as was his father's scandalous career--and ultimate disgrace--as a lawyer and judge.
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 AllRefer.com - Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (Supreme Court, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Cardozo was then appointed (1914) to the court of appeals, elected (1917) for a 14-year term, and elected (1927) chief judge of the court, which, largely through his influence, gained international fame.
He was prominent in the efforts of the American Law Institute to restate and simplify the law, and he advocated a permanent agency to function between the courts and legislatures to aid in framing effective legislation.
Cardozo was one of the foremost spokesmen on sociological jurisprudence, and his views on the relation of law to social change made him one of the most influential of U.S. judges.
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 H-Law | Reviews
Among these factors were Cardozo's widely lauded personal integrity, his popularity and collegiality as a member of the New York state bar and its judiciary, and his craftsmanship as a legal writer.
However, it was Cardozo's reputation as a moderate progressive, whose zeal for justice in the individual case was tempered by his reverence for the common law, that convinced Hoover that Cardozo was a safe choice for elevation to the nation's highest tribunal.
Cardozo does seem to have been a private man, and one who rejected the more radical agendas of his progressive and realist contemporaries.
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 I.U. Law School - Indianapolis: Wilkins: Torts I: Cardozo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The senior Cardozo was a cohort of William Marcy ("Boss") Tweed and was involved in the scandal of Tammany Hall.
Judge Cardozo did, however, read the draft, out of which Section 281 of the Restatement emerged, and seems to have been convinced by the group that won the debate before the Advisory Council.
Judge Cardozo was appointed to the United States Supreme Court by President Herbert Hoover in 1932.
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 Harvard Law Bulletin
Cardozo came from an old Sephardic Jewish family, both branches of which, the Cardozos and the Nathans, were in this country before the Revolution.
Cardozo was a twin, and just after he and his sister were born, disaster struck the family.
Thereafter, Benjamin Cardozo’s mother became quite ill, and eventually his older sister, Ellen or Nellie, took charge of the upbringing of the twins.
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 The Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Cardozo School of Law is an exciting, challenging, and vibrant community attracting students from around the world.
Cardozo Law School is committed to helping each LL.M. student develop a program of study that meets his or her professional and academic objectives, and provides a great deal of individualized attention to each student.
Cardozo is located in the vibrant and culturally diverse New York City neighborhood of Greenwich Village, which makes for a comfortable and welcoming neighborhood for its students.
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 Benjamin Cardozo
Cardozo was the second Jew, after Louis D. Brandeis, to serve on the nation’s highest court.
Cardozo forebears were numbered among the founders of Congregation Shearith Israel, the oldest congregation in North America and the central, social institution of New York’s Sephardic community.
Born in 1870, Benjamin Cardozo was the son of Judge Albert Cardozo and Rebecca Nathan.
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 The World of Benjamin Cardozo
Cardozo attended Columbia College, compiling a brilliant undergraduate record and graduating at the age of nineteen.
Cardozo had lived with Nell and had cared for her during many long years of invalidism until her death in 1929.
Once, describing his indirect manner of expressing himself, Cardozo alluded to his use of "the veiled phrase and the uncertain line." Drawing the veil and removing some of the uncertainties should help us to understand the man, the judge, and the legal world in which he dwelt.
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 Amazon.com: Cardozo: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Cardozo was one of the premier judges of the first half of this century, serving on the New York Court of Appeals as Chief Judge, the most influential state court in the country, and then on the Supreme Court.
Cardozo's father was a judge tarnished with scandal, and it has long been theorized that Cardozo's life was an attempt to retrieve that lost honor.
Fortunately, Cardozo's legal output is so varied and important that the biography's necessary focus on his judicial career is not wasted effort for the author or the reader.
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 Benjamin N. Cardozo
The Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal (AELJ) is the most widely subscribed to journal in its field, and Cardozo's Intellectual Property Law Program, as of January 2001, was ranked Fifth in the country by U.S. News and World Report.
AELJ is a student-run organization of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, and currently functions under the aegis of the Cardozo Intellectual Property Law Program.
The Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal was founded in 1982 as the first student-run journal dealing with entertainment law.
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 Benjamin Cardozo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Benjamin Cardozo, the son of Jewish parents, was born in New York City on 24th May, 1870.
His father, Albert Jacob Cardozo, was a New York Supreme Court justice before being forced to resign in 1872 under threat of impeachment.
Cardozo favoured government intervention to control the economy and therefore defended most of the New Deal measures that was introduced by Franklin D. Roosevelt during his period as pr
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 Harvard University Press/The World of Benjamin Cardozo
Polenberg describes the shaping experiences of Cardozo's youth, among them the death of his mother when he was nine years old; religious training in the Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue; two years of private tutoring by Horatio Alger, Jr.; and his reaction to the scandal that prompted his father to resign from the New York Supreme Court.
Here too is the truth behind Cardozo's renowned liberalism, explored through his rulings on New Deal measures such as the Social Security Act and his more conservative decisions in cases involving conscientious objectors and the rights of criminal defendants.
The Benjamin Cardozo who emerges from these pages, a complicated and intriguing figure, points to a new understanding of the shaping of American law.
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 Justice Cardozo, Sephardic Jew   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
However, the Cardozo family image suffered a major setback when Albert, a Tammany Hall appointee to the bench, resigned his judgeship in 1872 just as a legislative committee was about to impeach him for nepotism.
The young Cardozo distinguished himself as a commercial law litigator and soon other attorneys brought their most difficult cases to him for assistance.
Cardozo delivered a "long address," according to the congregational minutes, "impressive in ability and eloquence," which helped carry the day for the traditionalist side.
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 Jewish-American Hall of Fame -- Virtual Tour
Born in 1870 as a twin, Benjamin Cardozo grew up in his family's Madison Avenue home in New York City.
Cardozo's opinions are easily recognized by their "clarity, conciseness suffused with moral luminosity, and a command of historical material that is unrivaled in the entire common-law tradition," according to Judge Sidney Asch.
Benjamin Cardozo is particularly noted for his original thinking as expounded in his books, where he emphasized that a judge had to look beyond the legal authorities to meet responsibility to those seeking justice.
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 Benjamin Cardozo High School in Bayside, New York/NY - School Tree
Benjamin Cardozo High School is classified as a "High School".
Benjamin Cardozo High School was operational at the time of the last report and is currently operational.
Benjamin Cardozo High School IS NOT a Charter school.
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 New York Metro: Best High Schools in New York
Cardozo requires four years of science and four years of a foreign language.
The social-studies department houses the "mentor law and humanities program," designed to carry on the ideals and traditions of Supreme Court justice Benjamin Cardozo, for whom the school is named.
In their junior and senior years, students in the law program take courses in constitutional and civil law and work as interns at law offices, with local politicians, or in police stations.
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 Benjamin Cardozo
Considered one of the great legal thinkers in American history, Cardozo was especially known as a spokesman on sociological jurisprudence and the relationship between law and social change.
Cardozo entered Columbia College in 1885 at age 15 after studying with private tutors, including Horatio Alger.
Read more about Cardozo in the Columbia Encyclopedia.
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 Amazon.com: The World of Benjamin Cardozo: Personal Values and the Judicial Process: Books: Richard Polenberg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Cardozo's decisions on cases ranging from negligence suits to major U.S. constitutional issues regarding the New Deal were tempered by his moral convictions and early experiences as well as by inherent uncertainties within the legal process.
Polenberg shows that Cardozo was generally hospitable to government power in economic issues and usually upheld government authority in cases involving the rights of criminal defendants.
In The World of Benjamin Cardozo, an entertaining contribution to the literature of Cardozo revisionism, Richard Polenberg, who teaches American history at Cornell, combines biographical exploration with a reconstruction of the facts of some of Cardozo's most salacious cases.
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 Ambassador Holbrooke: Statement at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law on Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
It’s truly a pleasure to be here at Cardozo, an institution for which I have great respect, and a great honor to be the first recipient of this magnificent award.
For those in the academic community, here at Cardozo and elsewhere, who benefit from being outside the turf wars that characterize UN agencies – focus your energy on finding a solution.
If we successfully draw the world’s attention to their plight; if we pressure governments to protect these innocent victims and secure access for aid groups; and if we design assistance programs around the principles of predictability, accountability and universality – we’ll have taken a major step in alleviating this horrible problem.
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