Reflections on Judging

Name: Reflections on Judging
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ISBN: 9780674725089

ISBN-10: 0674725085

ISBN-13: 9780674725089

Edition: 2013

Authors: Richard A. Posner

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In Reflections on Judging, Richard Posner distills the experience of his thirty-one years as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Surveying how the judiciary has changed since his 1981 appointment, he engages the issues at stake today, suggesting how lawyers should argue cases and judges decide them, how trials can be improved, and, most urgently, how to cope with the dizzying pace of technological advance that makes litigation ever more challenging to judges and lawyers.For Posner, legal formalism presents one of the main obstacles to tackling these problems. Formalist judges--most notably Justice Antonin Scalia--needlessly complicate the legal process by…

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List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/7/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.716
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: A Judge on the Challenges to Judges



The Road to 219 South Dearborn Street



The Federal Judiciary Evolves



The Challenge of Complexity



Formalism and Realism in Appellate Decision Making



The Inadequate Appellate Record



Coping Strategies for Appellate Judges I: Judicial Self-Restraint



Coping Strategies for Appellate Judges II: Interpretation



Make It Simple, Make It New: Opinion Writing and Appellate Advocacy



Forays into the District Court



What Can Be Done, Modestly?


Conclusion: Realism, the Path Forward


Acknowledgments


Index