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Overview"The """"rule of law"""" stands at the heart of the American legal system. But the rule of law does not require judges slavishly to follow the letter of the law, unaffected by political or social influences. Because following the rule of law absolutely is impossible, it is dismissed by the public as a myth and judges are vilified. Judging Judges refocuses and elevates the debate over judges and the rule of law by showing that personal and professional values matter. Jason E. Whitehead demonstrates that the rule of law depends on a socially constructed attitude of legal obligation that spawns objective rules. Intensive interviews of judges reveal the value systems that uphold or undermine the attitude of legal obligation so central to the rule of law. This focus on the social practices undergirding these value systems demonstrates that the rule of law is ultimately a matter of social trust rather than textual constraints. Whitehead's unique combination of philosophical and empirical investigation is a major advance because it moves beyond the dichotomy of law or politics and shows that the rule of law is a shared social enterprise involving all of society - judges, politicians, scholars, and ordinary citizens alike. Judging Judges' attention to judicial values establishes judges' true worth in a liberal democracy." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jason E. WhiteheadPublisher: Baylor University Press Imprint: Baylor University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.576kg ISBN: 9781602585256ISBN 10: 1602585253 Pages: 253 Publication Date: 30 December 2014 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsWhiteheads Judging Judges brings together those testy siblings, law and politics, in an insightful treatment of the core issues in law. It is passionate and careful, learned and savvy, and often very clever. Judging Judges is an accessible treatment of legal thinking that puts real people in the jurisprudential equation along with judges and lawyers. -- John Brigham, Professor, Political Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Whitehead uses extensive interviews with appellate judges to delineate the ways that judges think about their task of interpreting the law. In doing so, he provides us with new insights and valuable evidence about the role of legal considerations in judicial decision-making. -- Lawrence Baum, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Ohio State University Jason Whitehead offers a nuanced analysis of the constraints that are imposed by the judicial role and the relatively limited range of choices that are open to judges when they interpret the law. This book is a tour de force and a model of scholarship. It can be read profitably by judges, legal theorists, and political scientists, indeed by anyone who is intrigued by the complexity hidden in the seemingly simple question, 'What does it mean to apply rules?' -- Malcolm M Feeley, Claire Sanders Clements Dean's Professor, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley Whiteheads Judging Judges brings together those testy siblings, law and politics, in an insightful treatment of the core issues in law. It is passionate and careful, learned and savvy, and often very clever. Judging Judges is an accessible treatment of legal thinking that puts real people in the jurisprudential equation along with judges and lawyers. -- John Brigham, Professor, Political Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Whitehead uses extensive interviews with appellate judges to delineate the ways that judges think about their task of interpreting the law. In doing so, he provides us with new insights and valuable evidence about the role of legal considerations in judicial decision-making. --Lawrence Baum, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Ohio State University Jason Whitehead offers a nuanced analysis of the constraints that are imposed by the judicial role and the relatively limited range of choices that are open to judges when they interpret the law. This book is a tour de force and a model of scholarship. It can be read profitably by judges, legal theorists, and political scientists, indeed by anyone who is intrigued by the complexity hidden in the seemingly simple question, 'What does it mean to apply rules?' --Malcolm M. Feeley, Claire Sanders Clements Dean's Professor, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley Whiteheads Judging Judges brings together those testy siblings, law and politics, in an insightful treatment of the core issues in law. It is passionate and careful, learned and savvy, and often very clever. Judging Judges is an accessible treatment of legal thinking that puts real people in the jurisprudential equation along with judges and lawyers. -- John Brigham, Professor, Political Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Whitehead uses extensive interviews with appellate judges to delineate the ways that judges think about their task of interpreting the law. In doing so, he provides us with new insights and valuable evidence about the role of legal considerations in judicial decision-making. -- Lawrence Baum, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Ohio State University Jason Whitehead offers a nuanced analysis of the constraints that are imposed by the judicial role and the relatively limited range of choices that are open to judges when they interpret the law. This book is a tour de force and a model of scholarship. It can be read profitably by judges, legal theorists, and political scientists, indeed by anyone who is intrigued by the complexity hidden in the seemingly simple question, 'What does it mean to apply rules?' -- Malcolm M Feeley, Claire Sanders Clements Dean's Professor, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley Whitehead's Judging Judges brings together those testy siblings, law and politics, in an insightful treatment of the core issues in law. It is passionate and careful, learned and savvy, and often very clever. Judging Judges is an accessible treatment of legal thinking that puts real people in the jurisprudential equation along with judges and lawyers. --John Brigham, Professor, Political Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Author InformationJason E. Whitehead is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Director of the Legal Studies Program at California State University, Long Beach. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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