Brandeis and the Progressive Constitution: Erie, the Judicial Power, and the Politics of the Federal Courts in Twentieth-Century America

Brandeis and the Progressive Constitution: Erie, the Judicial Power, and the Politics of the Federal Courts in Twentieth-Century America by Purcell, Edward A.. Hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780274738861.

This book examines both the constitutional jurisprudence of Supreme Court justice Louis D. Brandeis and one of his most famous and controversial opinions Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins (1938). This landmark decision led to a significant relocation of power from federal to state courts and says the author it provides a window on the legal political and ideological battles over the federal courts in the New Deal era and after.