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Judgment Calls: Principle and Politics in Constitutional Law


ISBN13: 9780195371208
Published: February 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: USA
Format: Hardback
Price: £37.49



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Judgment Calls tackles one of the most important and controversial legal questions in contemporary America: How should judges interpret the Constitution? Our Constitution contains a great deal of language that is vague, broad, or ambiguous, making its meaning uncertain. Many people believe this uncertainty allows judges too much discretion. They suggest that constitutional adjudication is just politics in disguise, and that judges are legislators in robes who read the Constitution in accordance with their own political views.

Some think that political decision making by judges is inevitable, and others think it can be restrained by "strict constructionist" theories like textualism or originalism. But at bottom, both sorts of thinkers believe that judging has to be either tightly constrained and inflexible or purely political and unfettered: There is, they argue, no middle ground.

Farber and Sherry disagree, and in this book they describe and defend that middle ground. They show how judging can be--and often is--both principled and flexible. In other words, they attempt to reconcile the democratic rule of law with the recognition that judges have discretion. They explain how judicial discretion can be exercised responsibly, describe the existing constraints that guide and cabin such discretion, and suggest improvements.

In exploring how constitutional adjudication works in practice (and how it can be made better), Farber and Sherry cover a wide range of topics that are relevant to their thesis and also independently important, including judicial opinion-writing, the use of precedent, the judicial selection process, the structure of the American judiciary, and the nature of legal education.

They conclude with a careful look at how the Supreme Court has treated three of the most significant and sensitive constitutional issues: terrorism, abortion, and affirmative action. Timely, trenchant, and carefully argued, Judgment Calls is a welcome addition to the literature on the intersection of constitutional interpretation and American politics.

Subjects:
Other Jurisdictions , USA
Contents:
Preface
1. Introduction
Part I: The "Problem" of Judicial Review
2. The Inevitability of American Judicial Review
3. The Democracy Worry
Part II: Discretion and Judgment
4. How to Think About Discretion
5. Reason and Relevance
6. The Anatomy of Judgment
Part III: Precedent as a Safeguard
7. Respect for Precedent
8. Explaining Precedent
Part IV: Process Safeguards
9. Deliberation and Multiple Decision-makers
10. Transparency
11. Incrementalism
Part V: Internalized Safeguards
12. Professionalism and the Selection Process
13. The Role of the Legal Academy
Part VI: Case Studies
14. Terrorism
15. Abortion
16. Affirmative Action
Some Closing Words
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