Posner, Richard A.
How judges think / Richard A. Posner - Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, c2008. - 387 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
Contents: Part one: 1. Nine theories of judicial behavior -- 2. The judge as labor-market participant -- 3. The judge as occasional legislator -- 4. The mind of the legislating judge -- Part two: 5. The judicial environment : external constraints on judging -- 6. Altering the environment : tenure and salary issues -- 7. Judicial method : internal constraints on judging -- 8. Judges are not law professors -- 9. Is pragmatic adjudication inescapable? -- Part three: 10. The Supreme Court is a political court -- 11. Comprehensive constitutional theories -- 12. Judicial cosmopolitanism.
English
978.674028203[paperback]
2007037826
Judicial process.
Judicial process--United States.
How judges think / Richard A. Posner - Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, c2008. - 387 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
Contents: Part one: 1. Nine theories of judicial behavior -- 2. The judge as labor-market participant -- 3. The judge as occasional legislator -- 4. The mind of the legislating judge -- Part two: 5. The judicial environment : external constraints on judging -- 6. Altering the environment : tenure and salary issues -- 7. Judicial method : internal constraints on judging -- 8. Judges are not law professors -- 9. Is pragmatic adjudication inescapable? -- Part three: 10. The Supreme Court is a political court -- 11. Comprehensive constitutional theories -- 12. Judicial cosmopolitanism.
English
978.674028203[paperback]
2007037826
Judicial process.
Judicial process--United States.