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Arguing With Friends, William Baude, Ryan D. Doerfler
Arguing With Friends, William Baude, Ryan D. Doerfler
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It is a fact of life that judges sometimes disagree about the best outcome in appealed cases. The question is what they should make of this. The two purest possibilities are to shut out all other views, or else to let them all in, leading one to concede ambiguity and uncertainty in most if not all contested cases.
Drawing on the philosophical concepts of “peer disagreement” and “epistemic peerhood,” we argue that there is a better way. Judges ought to give significant weight to the views of others, but only when those others share the judge’s basic methodology or interpretive …
Judge Posner’S Simple Law, Mitchell N. Berman
Judge Posner’S Simple Law, Mitchell N. Berman
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The world is complex, Richard Posner observes in his most recent book, Reflections on Judging. It follows that, to resolve real-world disputes sensibly, judges must be astute students of the world’s complexity. The problem, he says, is that, thanks to disposition, training, and professional incentives, they aren’t. Worse than that, the legal system generates its own complexity precisely to enable judges “to avoid rather than meet and overcome the challenge of complexity” that the world delivers. Reflections concerns how judges needlessly complexify inherently simple law, and how this complexification can be corrected.
Posner’s diagnoses and prescriptions range widely—from the Bluebook …
Constitutional Constructions And Constitutional Decision Rules: Thoughts On The Carving Of Implementation Space, Mitchell N. Berman
Constitutional Constructions And Constitutional Decision Rules: Thoughts On The Carving Of Implementation Space, Mitchell N. Berman
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Symposium: Supreme Court Review, Symposium Foreword, Mitchell N. Berman
Symposium: Supreme Court Review, Symposium Foreword, Mitchell N. Berman
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Aspirational Rights And The Two-Output Thesis, Mitchell N. Berman
Aspirational Rights And The Two-Output Thesis, Mitchell N. Berman
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What Do We Mean By "Judicial Independence"?, Stephen B. Burbank
What Do We Mean By "Judicial Independence"?, Stephen B. Burbank
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In this article, the author argues that the concept of "judicial independence" has served more as an object of rhetoric than it has of sustained study. He views the scholarly literatures that treat it as ships passing in the night, each subject to weaknesses that reflect the needs and fashions of the discipline, but all tending to ignore courts other than the Supreme Court of the United States. Seeking both greater rigor and greater flexibility than one usually finds in public policy debates about, and in the legal and political science literatures on, judicial independence, the author attributes much of …
The Architecture Of Judicial Independence, Stephen B. Burbank
The Architecture Of Judicial Independence, Stephen B. Burbank
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Foreword: The Law Of Federal Judicial Discipline And The Lessons Of Social Science, Stephen B. Burbank, Sheldon Jay Plager
Foreword: The Law Of Federal Judicial Discipline And The Lessons Of Social Science, Stephen B. Burbank, Sheldon Jay Plager
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Look Before You Leap: Some Cautionary Notes On Civic Republicanism, Michael A. Fitts
Look Before You Leap: Some Cautionary Notes On Civic Republicanism, Michael A. Fitts
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The Chancellor's Boot, Stephen B. Burbank
The Chancellor's Boot, Stephen B. Burbank
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