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Foreword: Homage To Mr. Justice Cardozo, Paul A. Freund Jan 1979

Foreword: Homage To Mr. Justice Cardozo, Paul A. Freund

Cardozo Law Review

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Law, Literature And Cardozo's Judicial Poetics, Richard H. Weisberg Jan 1979

Law, Literature And Cardozo's Judicial Poetics, Richard H. Weisberg

Cardozo Law Review

The following article suggests a new perspective on Benjamin N. Cardozo's judicial theory. The introductory pages offer a comparison of Cardozo to a strikingly similar figure from the literary world, Flaubert, and in that light emphasize his awareness and acceptance of the place of culture and intuition in the judicial enterprise. Part I perceives Cardozo's imprecisely named "Method of Sociology" as pointing, in effect, to a "Method of Culture." This section also elaborates on the intuitive element of his judicial "poetics," not as a method in itself, but as the disciplined subjectivity which leads judges to use his four methods …