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Legal Realism, Common Courtesy, And Hypocrisy, Keith J. Bybee
Legal Realism, Common Courtesy, And Hypocrisy, Keith J. Bybee
College of Law - Faculty Scholarship
In the United States, courts are publicly defined by their distance from politics. Politics is said to be a matter of interest, competition, and compromise. Law, by contrast, is said to be a matter of principle and impartial reason. This distinction between courts and politics, though common, is also commonly doubted - and this raises difficult questions. How can the courts at once be in politics yet not be of politics? If the judiciary is mired in politics, how can one be sure that all the talk of law is not just mummery designed to disguise the pursuit of partisan …
Legal Reform: The Role Of Public Institutions And Legal Culture, Ruben J. Garcia
Legal Reform: The Role Of Public Institutions And Legal Culture, Ruben J. Garcia
Scholarly Works
In this symposium held at California Western School of Law, Professor Garcia comments on the presentations of other participants and provides his own reflections about the role that legal cultures and legal institutions play in emerging democracies and in our very own.