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Judges on judging : views from the bench /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: O'Brien, David M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, [2004]
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Judges > United States.
Judicial process > United States.
Political questions and judicial power > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. Judicial review and American politics : historical and political perspectives. The doctrine of judicial review : Mr. Marshall, Mrs. Jefferson, and Mr. Marbury / Warren E. Burger
  • The Supreme Court in the American system of government / Robert H. Jackson
  • pt. 2. The dynamics of the judicial process. The path of law / Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • Advice and consent in theory and practice / Roger J. Minor
  • The adversary judge : the experience of the trial judge / Marvin E. Frankel
  • What I ate for breakfast and other mysteries of judicial decision making / Alex Kozinski
  • Whose federal judiciary is it anyway? / Stephen Reinhardt
  • What really goes on at the Supreme Court / Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
  • The Supreme Court's conference / William H. Rehnquist
  • Deciding what to decide : the docket and the Rule of Four / John Paul Stevens
  • The role of oral argument / John M. Harlan II
  • Precedent and policy : judicial opinions and decision making / Walter V. Schaefer
  • pt. 3. The judiciary and the Constitution. The notion of a living Constitution / William H. Rehnquist
  • A relativistic Constitution / William Wayne Justice
  • The jurisprudence of judicial restraint : a return to the moorings / J. Clifford Wallace
  • Tradition and morality in constitutional law / Robert H. Bork
  • What am I, a potted plant? : the case against strict constructionism / Richard A. Posner
  • Originalism : the lesser evil / Antonin Scalia
  • The Constitution : a living document / Thurgood Marshall
  • The Constitution of the United States : contemporary ratification / William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • Speaking in a judicial voice : reflections on Roe v. Wade / Ruth Bader Ginsberg
  • Our democratic Constitution / Stephen G. Breyer
  • Against constitutional theory / Richard G. Breyer
  • The two faces of judicial activism / William Wayne Justice
  • pt. 4. The judiciary and federal regulation : line drawing and statutory interpretation. Some reflections on the reading of statutes / Felix Frankfurter
  • What does legislative history tell us? / Frank H. Easterbrook
  • pt. 5. Our dual constitutional system : the Bill of Rights and the states. The Bill of Rights / Hugo L. Black
  • Guardians of our liberties-- state courts no less than federal / William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • First things first : rediscovering the states' bills of rights / Hans A. Linde
  • State courts at the dawn of a new century : common law courts reading statutes and constitutions / Judith S. Kaye.