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Section 1: Moot Court: Nixon V. United States, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School Sep 1992

Section 1: Moot Court: Nixon V. United States, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School

Supreme Court Preview

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Dworkin And The Doctrine Of Judicial Discretion, David Jennex May 1992

Dworkin And The Doctrine Of Judicial Discretion, David Jennex

Dalhousie Law Journal

In a series of books and articles published over the last thirty years, Ronald Dworkin has relentlessly attacked the positivist view according to which law is a species of empirically verifiable fact. A position closely associated with this view, and with which Dworkin also takes issue, is the doctrine of judicial discretion. This doctrine asserts that in hard cases - cases in which it is unclear what the law requires - there is no legally required dispensation, so that judges are entitled to use discretion in making their decision. Dworkin disagrees, maintaining that in many such cases a thorough investigation …


Reasoning With The Charter, Gerald Tg Seniuk May 1992

Reasoning With The Charter, Gerald Tg Seniuk

Dalhousie Law Journal

Reasoning with the Charter by Leon Trakman is a timely and useful book. It is "timely" because in this the tenth anniversary of the Charter it is appropriate to review its impact, which Prof. Trakman finds wanting and unduly circumscribing. It is also useful, although "useful" is not a term usually associated with a theoreticalbook such as this. Certainly this is not a "how-to" book about Charter application. It does, however, outline a different approach to Charter interpretation and it may be that the neglect by our judges of this approach is a mistake. Perhaps not; but there are at …


Remarks On The Process Of Judging, William H. Rehnquist Mar 1992

Remarks On The Process Of Judging, William H. Rehnquist

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Improving One's Situation: Some Pragmatic Reflections On The Art Of Judging, Catharine Pierce Wells Mar 1992

Improving One's Situation: Some Pragmatic Reflections On The Art Of Judging, Catharine Pierce Wells

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Quotas, Politics, And Judicial Statesmanship: The Civil Rights Act Of 1991 And Powell's Bakke, Mark H. Grunewald Jan 1992

Quotas, Politics, And Judicial Statesmanship: The Civil Rights Act Of 1991 And Powell's Bakke, Mark H. Grunewald

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Abrams V. United States: Remembering The Authors Of Both Opinions, James F. Fagan Jr. Jan 1992

Abrams V. United States: Remembering The Authors Of Both Opinions, James F. Fagan Jr.

Touro Law Review

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Point, Andrew Popper Jan 1992

Point, Andrew Popper

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

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Liberals And Balancing, Robert F. Nagel Jan 1992

Liberals And Balancing, Robert F. Nagel

Publications

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The Judge As Political Candidate, Hans A. Linde Jan 1992

The Judge As Political Candidate, Hans A. Linde

Cleveland State Law Review

Judges are expected to satisfy two conflicting ideals. First, they are to follow the law without fear or favor, regardless of personal sympathies and preferences, to "adjudicate" rather than to "legislate." Second, they are to reach results that are preferred by or at least acceptable to their communities. The first ideal requires judicial independence and job security. Elective judgeships are sometimes defended as serving the second. We have gone through a third public examination of a Supreme Court nominee in which the Senate and the public considered it important to question the nominee about his views of the major issues …