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Beau James Brock

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Modern American Supreme Court Judicial Methodology And Its Origins: A Critical Analysis Of The Legal Thought Of Roscoe Pound, Beau James Brock Dec 2010

Modern American Supreme Court Judicial Methodology And Its Origins: A Critical Analysis Of The Legal Thought Of Roscoe Pound, Beau James Brock

Beau James Brock

The pragmatic philosophy of law espoused by Pound has come to be regarded as a textbook method of adjudication. The most telling commentators of all have been the judges themselves who utilize his balancing of social interests in their adjudication of cases. Finally, his pragmatism has been assimilated into mainstream legal thought producing innovative attempts to address the possibly unanswerable question of the proper valuation of competing interests.


Mr. Justice Antonin Scalia: A Renaissance Of Positivism And Predictability In Constitutional Adjudication, Beau James Brock Dec 1990

Mr. Justice Antonin Scalia: A Renaissance Of Positivism And Predictability In Constitutional Adjudication, Beau James Brock

Beau James Brock

This article pinpoints Justice Scalia's judicial methodology and contrasts it with the pragmatism of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.