Brandeis was not the first american jurist to challenge the exploitation of legal pedantry in the service of reactionary politics .
在反动政治掌权的过程中,布兰迪斯并非挑战滥用法律虚妄言辞的美国法官第一人。
She is president barack obama 's first opportunity to put his stamp on the court , although she would replace another liberal jurist and is thus not expected dramatically to alter the court 's political direction .
Nearly a century ago , the jurist louis brandeis railed against what he called the " curse of bigness . " He warned that banks , railroads and steel companies had grown so huge that they were lording it over the nation 's economic and political life .
Stalwarts of the industrial revolution such as thomas newcomen , a west country engineer , rub shoulders with john locke , a political philosopher , and edward coke , a lawyer and jurist who did much to shape the common-law traditions of intellectual property .
The eminently qualified former harvard law school dean who has never donned the judge 's robe will replace liberal jurist john paul stevens , who retired in june after 35 years on the bench .
Sir william blackstone , an 18th-century jurist who wrote a famous four-volume history of english law , described a man 's right to trial by his peers as " the principal bulwark of our liberties " .