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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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 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 Cardozo
Benjamin Nathan Cardozo was born in New York City on May 24, 1870, the son of Albert and Rebecca Nathan 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 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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 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 (additional 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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 The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Cardozo, Benjamin Nathan @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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.
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.
Cardozo expounded his philosophy of law and the judicial process in three classics of jurisprudence: The Nature of the Judicial Process (1921), The Growth of the Law (1924), and The Paradoxes of Legal Science (1928).
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 The Supreme Court Historical Society
BENJAMIN NATHAN CARDOZO was born in New York, New York, on May 24, 1870.
Cardozo studied law at Columbia University and was admitted to the bar in 1891 before obtaining a degree.
Cardozo was elected to a full term as an Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals in 1917, and in 1926 he became Chief Judge.
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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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 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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 Encyclopedia: Benjamin N. Cardozo
Albert Jacob Cardozo was born on December 21, 1828 in Philadelphia, PA, and died on November 8, 1885 in New York City.
From 1891 to 1914, Benjamin Cardozo practiced law in New York City with his brother Albert Cardozo, Jr., until Albert's death in 1909.
Benjamin N. Cardozo High School is a high school located in Bayside neighborhood of Queens in New York City.
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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 Nathan Cardozo was a member of the New York Court of Appeals from 1914 and its Chief Judge from 1926 until his appointment as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1932.
Cardozo claimed a judicial restraint based on his detachment from the human qualities and foibles described in the briefs and in oral argument.
Cardozo's opinions validating Roosevelt's New Deal legislation (STEWART MACHINE CO. V DAVIS, 1937, HELVERING V DAVIS, 1937) likewise reflected Cardozo's personal assessment of social circumstances and of the positive role that ought to be played by the state in remediating many of these unfortunate plight of the poor, the elderly, and those without jobs.
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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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 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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 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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 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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 Commentary Magazine - Cardozo by Andrew L. Kaufman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Renowned as a legal mind in his own time, he is held up to law students today both for the force of his reasoning and for the exceptionl elegance of his prose.
...CARDOZO WAS born in New York City in 1870 to a prosperous family of Sephardi Jews that could trace its lineage in the U.S...
...Within two decades, Cardozo was considered one of the most intelligent and resourceful practitioners of his day-a lawyer's lawyerand had won a number of friends in high places...
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Benjamin Cardozo came from one of the older Jewish families of New York.
Cardozo went on to receive unanimous support from the senate and served on the court for over 6 years.
Cardozo was a major reason the "New Deal" was upheld by the court when he went against many conservative justices who were trying to state that it was unconstitutional.
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 Commentary Magazine - Selected Writings of Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, Edited by Margaret E. Hall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
...CARDOZO'S principal concern, in such works as "The Nature of the Judicial Process" and "The Growth of the Law" which are included in this volume, is to explain how the judge 290BOOKS IN REVIEW shapes legal doctrine to whatever ends he has chosen...
...The pragmatic school, of which Cardozo is a member, has usually argued the impossibility of separating the theory from the practice of judicial decision...
...Cardozo's talents and his personal frailties gave him a special need for the resources of a tradition...
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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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 Cardozo Editor: Cardozo. Name: Cardozo. Categories. Profile. Litigation Paralegal, With A Special Interes
Cardozo, Andrew L. Kaufman an engrossing account of the life of Benjamin Cardozo, a judicial hero of the first third of the work of Judge and Justice Cardozo, analyzing the development and maturation of.
Cardozo was one of the foremost spokesmen on.
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 Programming Tutorials - Books : The Nature of the Judicial Process (The Storrs Lectures Series)
Benjamin Nathan Cardozo has often been held up as one of the leading Supreme Court Justices in history, despite serving a mere six years on the high court (1932-38).
Cardozo's opinions on interstate commerce, conflict of laws between federal and state, and congressional powr are still required reading not only for law school students, but also...
Cardozo's opinions are written with such convincing and lucid prose that the interested law student can't help but wonder what made this man tick.
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 Written biography of Benjamin Nathan Cardozo | Life of Benjamin Nathan Cardozo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (1870-1938) was one of the greatest legal philosophers to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States.Born in New York City on May 24, 1870, Benjamin Cardozo was of Jewish parentage.
On the maternal side, his great-great-uncle Rabbi Gershom Mendes Seixas was present at George Washington's presidential inauguration, and on the paternal side, his great-great-grandfather Aaron Nunez Cardozo emigrated from London in the 18th century.Cardozo attended the public schools of New York City.
A well-documented work that praises Cardozo's decisions supporting Congress is Walter F. Murphy, Congress and the Court: A Case Study in the American Political System (1962).
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 Harvard University Press/Cardozo/Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
As to Cardozo himself, he is fair, firm, admiring but not adoring, determined to set down the foibles, to note the occasional misjudgments and to reveal the virtues and the accomplishments of the man...Kaufman's Cardozo is a labor of love worthy of its subject.
Andrew L. Kaufman plumbs the sources of Cardozo's enduring influence, and no one could come better prepared for that task...[Kaufman] has been researching the life of Benjamin Cardozo for more than 40 years, and Cardozo is the long-awaited result of those efforts.
In the later stages, he continued his research on the Internet...Kaufman shows that, although Cardozo did not have Brandeis' political zeal, his cautious, common law methods gave birth to modern tort theory, formulated the delegation doctrine at the root of current administrative law, and enshrined the standards that are the basis of today's ethical codes.
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 Constitutional Commentary: Cardozo.(Review) (book reviews)@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Andrew L. Kaufman's Cardozo is a magnificent new biography of Benjamin Nathan Cardozo.
Cardozo was an influential judge for a quarter of a century--sitting on three courts in five different judicial positions, ultimately serving as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court until his death in 1938.
Today, more than 85 years after he began his judicial career and six decades after his death, Cardozo's judicial opinions and other legal writings are still frequently cited,...
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 Georgetown Law Journal: Kaufman's Cardozo: Judicial biography as legal history   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In 1957, Justice Frankfurter and Joseph Rauh (who was Cardozo's last law clerk and later a noted Washington attorney) asked Kaufman to undertake the task of being Cardozo's biographer.3 He accepted, much to the credit of Frankfurter and all concerned.
Cardozo's father and older brother were members of the bar.
For example, in introducing the reader to Benjamin Cardozo's family background, Kaufman uses the adjective "judicial" to modify the noun "corruption." 12 The story is spelled out in more detail later on, but at that point the phrase "judicial corruption" tells the reader that Cardozo's father, Albert, was a judge.
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 Justice Cardozo, Sephardic Jew
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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 Living Legacies
The nine justices with strong Columbia ties are John Jay, H. Brockholst Livingston, Samuel Blatchford, Charles Evans Hughes, Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, Harlan Fiske Stone, Stanley Reed, William O. Douglas, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Although Benjamin Nathan Cardozo wrote important opinions as a justice of the Supreme Court, like his Columbia forebears, he is equally if not better known for his other contributions.
Cardozo served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court for only six years.
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