Justice Curtis in the Civil War Era: At the Crossroads of American Constitutionalism

by Stuart Streichler

During a career as both a lawyer and a Supreme Court justice, Benjamin R. Curtis addressed practically every major constitutional question of the mid-nineteenth century, making judgments that still resonate in American law. Aside from a family memoir written by his brother over one hundred years ago, however, no book-length treatment of Curtis exists. Now Stuart Streichler has filled this gap in judicial biography, using Curtis's life and work...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813923425
• ISBN13: 9780813923420
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"