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Fostering Balance On The Federal Courts , Carl Tobias
Fostering Balance On The Federal Courts , Carl Tobias
American University Law Review
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Cynicism, Reconsidered, Pauline Kim
Cynicism, Reconsidered, Pauline Kim
Scholarship@WashULaw
Occasionally I encounter among students the suspicion that law is nothing but politics. In the field in which I teach-employment law-this attitude amounts to the cynical belief that if judges (or at least those judges hostile to workers) can possibly find a way for the employee to lose and the employer to win, they will do so. While I must admit my own misgivings about the extent to which doctrine and precedent actually decide cases, I push these students to try to understand case outcomes as something other than pure politics. Believing that it is important for law students, as …