How Judges Think

Name: How Judges Think
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ISBN: 9780674048065

ISBN-10: 0674048067

ISBN-13: 9780674048065

Edition: 2008

Authors: Richard A. Posner

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List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 5/1/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Richard A. Posner is Circuit Judge, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School.



Introduction



The Basic Model



Nine Theories of Judicial Behavior



The Judge as Labor-Market Participant



The Judge as Occasional Legislator



The Mind of the Legislating Judge



The Model Elaborated



The Judicial Environment: External Constraints on judging



Altering the Environment: Tenure and Salary Issues



Judicial Method: Internal Constraints on Judging



Judges Are Not Law Professors



Is Pragmatic Adjudication Inescapable?



Justices



The Supreme Court Is a Political Court



Comprehensive Constitutional Theories



Judicial Cosmopolitanism


Conclusion


Acknowledgments


Index