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Finding Law, Stephen E. Sachs
Finding Law, Stephen E. Sachs
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That the judge's task is to find the law, not to make it, was once a commonplace of our legal culture. Today, decades after Erie, the idea of a common law discovered by judges is commonly dismissed -- as a "fallacy," an "illusion," a "brooding omnipresence in the sky." That dismissive view is wrong. Expecting judges to find unwritten law is no childish fiction of the benighted past, but a real and plausible option for a modern legal system.
This Essay seeks to restore the respectability of finding law, in part by responding to two criticisms made by Erie and …
Original Understanding And The Constitution, Michael E. Tigar
Original Understanding And The Constitution, Michael E. Tigar
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