Certainty and justice : studies of the conflict between precedent and progress in the development of the law / by Frederic R. Coudert.

New York, London : D. Appleton, 1914.

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Law -- United States.

Constitutional law -- United States.

Courts -- United States.

Certainty and justice.--The challenge to the Constitution.--What is the matter with the law?--Jury trial as an instance of constitutional development.--Criminal procedure and the Constitution.--The Constitution and our new peoples; citizens, subjects, nationals or aliens.--The law and our industrial development. "The rule of reason."--Perversion of precedent. Stare decisis. History misinterpreted.--Aliens and the progress of the law.--Progress of international law in treatment of political crime.--The crisis of the law; professional incompetency.

Partly reprinted from various sources.

vii, 319, [1] p. 20 cm