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His tenure was marked by a number of original rulings, in [[tort]] and [[contract]] law in particular. In [[1921]], Cardozo gave the [[Storrs]] lectures at [[Yale]], which was later published as ''[[The Nature of the Judicial Process]]'', a book that remains valuable to judges today. Shortly thereafter, Cardozo became a member of the group that founded the [[American Law Institute]], which crafted a [[Restatement]] of the Law of [[Torts]], [[Contracts]], and a host of other private law subjects. His majority opinion in ''[[Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co.]]'' in [[1928]] was important in the development of the concept of [[proximate cause]] in tort law.
In [[1932]], [[President of the United States|President]] [[Herbert Hoover]] appointed Chief Judge Cardozo to the [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]] to succeed Justice [[Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.|Oliver Wendell Holmes]]. The ''[[New York Times]]'' said of Cardozo's appointment that "seldom, if ever, in the history of the Court has an appointment been so universally commended" (''New York Times'', [[February 16]] [[1932]], pp. 1). On a radio broadcast on [[March 1]] [[1932]], the day of Cardozo's confirmation, Clarence R. Dill, Democratic Senator for Washington, called Hoover's appointment of Cardozo "the finest act of his career as President" (''New York Times'', [[March 2]] [[1932]], pp. 13). The entire faculty of the [[University of Chicago Law School]] had urged Hoover to nominate him, as did the [[Dean (education)|deans]] of the [[law school]]s at [[Harvard Law School|Harvard]], [[Yale Law School|Yale]], and [[Columbia Law School|Columbia]]. Justice [[Harlan Fiske Stone]] strongly urged Hoover to name Cardozo, even offering to resign to make room for him if Hoover had his heart set on someone else (Stone had in fact suggested to [[Coolidge]] that he should nominate Cardozo rather than himself back in [[1925]] (Handler, 1995)). Hoover, however, originally
Cardozo was the second Jew, after [[Louis Brandeis]], to be appointed to the Supreme Court. Because of his Iberian roots and fluency in Spanish, a few commentators consider him to have been the first [[Hispanic]] Justice as well, although his family origins were in Portugal rather than Spain. In his years as an [[Associate Justice]], he handed down opinions that stressed the necessity for the law to adapt to the realities and needs of modern life.
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