The American judicial tradition: profiles of leading American judges

John Marshall and the genesis of the tradition

Kent, Story, and Shaw: the judicial function and property rights

Roger Taney and the limits of judicial power

Miller, Bradley, Field, and the reconstructed constitution

Political ideologies, professional norms, and the state judiciary in the late nineteenth century: Cooley and Doe

John Marshall Harlan I: the precursor

The tradition at the close of the nineteenth century

Holmes, Brandeis, and the origins of judicial liberalism

The four horsemen: the sources of judicial notoriety

Hughes and Stone: Ironies of the chief justiceship

Personal versus impersonal judging: the dilemmas of Robert Jackson

Cardozo, Learned Hand, and Frank: the dielectic of freedom and constraint

Rationality and intuition in the process of judging: Roger Traynor

The mosaid of the Warren Court: Frankfurter, Black, Warren, and Harlan

The tradition and the future.