"Provides a richly documented history of Weinfeld's personal and
professional life."
--" The Law and Politics Book Review"
"This book leaves Weinfeld, as most of his social circle
doubtless found him: an admirable and highly accomplished man whose
deeper self remained a mystery, perhaps to him as much as to anyone
else."--"Trial"
In Pursuit of Right and Justice chronicles the life of the
United States District Court's Judge Edward Weinfeld, from his
humble Lower East Side origins to his distinction as one of the
nation's most respected federal judges. Judge Edward Weinfeld's
personal growth and socio-economic mobility provides an excellent
illustration of how Catholics and Jews descended from
turn-of-the-century immigrants were assimilated into the mainstream
of New York and American life during the course of the twentieth
century. Weinfeld left a rich collection of personal papers that
William E. Nelson examines, which depict the compromises and
sacrifices Weinfeld had to make to attain professional advancement.
Weinfeld's jurisprudence remained closely tied to his own personal
values and to the historical contexts in which cases came to his
court.
Nelson aptly describes how Weinfeld strove to avoid making new
law. He tried to make decisions on preexisting rules or bedrock
legal principles; he achieved just results by searching for and
finding facts that called those rules into play. Weinfeld's vision
of justice was simultaneously a liberal one that enabled him to
develop law that reflected societal change, and an apolitical one
that did not rest on contested policy judgments.
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