Justice and Empathy: Toward a Constitutional Ideal

by Robert A. Burt

An impassioned argument for the role of courts as a moral and social agent for change and protecting the vulnerable

The Supreme Court long considered its highest mission to be the protection of individual liberty from intrusion by government, but the court shifted its focus to social and economic equality. Constitutional scholar Robert A. Burt explores this shift and its implications, especially for the legal protection of the vulnerable...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300224265
• ISBN13: 9780300224269
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.5"