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Freund: On Understanding The Supreme Court., Michigan Law Review
Freund: On Understanding The Supreme Court., Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of ON UNDERSTANDING THE SUPREME COURT. By Paul A. Freund.
The Divided Supreme Court, 1944-1945, C. Herman Pritchett
The Divided Supreme Court, 1944-1945, C. Herman Pritchett
Michigan Law Review
The United States Supreme Court has in recent years been supplying fascinating material for students interested in the interplay of personal and institutional factors in the judicial decision-making process. Contrary to the more restrictive practices of some other legal systems, the traditions of the American judiciary have never insisted that justices sitting en banc should hide the existence of division among themselves behind a facade of pretended unanimity. Justices who dissent from a decision of their brethren have been permitted to say so, and to give their reasons. This practice has had an immeasurably great effect in facilitating the growth …