Cardozo Benjamin Nathan in the United States

Cardozo Benjamin Nathan

Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (1870-1938), American jurist, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, recognized as one of the most influential liberal judges of his time. He was born in New York City, and educated at Columbia University. In 1891 Cardozo was admitted to the bar and began to practice law in New York City. In 1914 he was elected justice of the New York Supreme Court. The following year he became associate justice of the New York Court of Appeals, and in 1927 was appointed chief justice of that court. Five years later Cardozo succeeded Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. as associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Cardozo was famous for his clearly written, scholarly opinions and for his liberal interpretation of legal questions, particularly those dealing with public welfare. Cardozo upheld most of the New Deal measures advocated by the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt that came before the U.S. Supreme Court, notably the Social Security Act, for which he wrote the majority opinion. The writings of Cardozo include The Nature of the Judicial Process (1921), The Growth of the Law (1924), and The Paradoxes of Legal Science (1928). (1)

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1. Encarta Online Encyclopedia

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