legal realism

Justice Gorsuch Takes on the “Legal Realists”0
- August 8, 2024
Justice Gorsuch responds to the “legal realist” view that encourages judicial activism.
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Part II: What Can We Do About Legal Realism and Its Promotion of Judicial Activism?0
- July 27, 2017
. . . the problem centers in specific institutions: American law schools and the higher reaches of the judiciary.
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Part I: Judicial activism: Here’s a core reason for it you’ve never heard about 0
- July 24, 2017
The Founders erected the American legal system to operate in the context of Anglo-American judicial values. The rules placed expressly or implicitly in the Constitution . . . were designed to operate in that context. However, the context changed.
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The Principles of the Common Law 0
- April 3, 2015
Although the Constitution is not, strictly speaking, a common law document, it was written against the backdrop of common law. The term “common law” has various meanings, but the meaning I’m using here is the system of case law we inherited from England, including the bodies of jurisprudence known as admiralty and equity. That system
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Problems in the Recess Appointments Case (Even though Rob was cited again)0
- June 29, 2014
(This article originally appeared in The American Thinker.) I applaud the result of the recess appointments case and I am happy to have been cited again in a Supreme Court opinion (this time by Justice Scalia). But in several respects the case exemplifies what is wrong with constitutional jurisprudence today. In National Labor Relations Board
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