Overview

Broad in scope, this one-of-a-kind book features ""off-the-bench"" writings and speeches in which Supreme Court justices, as well as lower federal and state court judges, discuss the judicial process, constitutional interpretation, judicial federalism, and the role of the judiciary. Engaging introductory material provides students with necessary thematic and historical context making this book the perfect supplement to present a nuanced view of the judiciary.

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Author:   David M. O′Brien
Publisher:   SAGE Publications Inc
Imprint:   CQ Press
Edition:   5th Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.570kg
ISBN:  

9781506340289

ISBN 10:   1506340288
Pages:   392
Publication Date:   24 August 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Part I: Judicial Review and American Politics Chapter 1: The Doctrine of Judicial Review: Mr. Marshall, Mr. Jefferson, and Mr. Marbury - Warren E. Burger Marbury v. Madison: Act One, The Setting Marbury v. Madison: The Second Act Epilogue Chapter 2: The Supreme Court in the American System of Government - Robert H. Jackson The Supreme Court as a Unit of Government Executive v. Legislative Federal Power v. State Power State v. State Majority v. Individual Part II: The Dynamics of the Judicial Process Trial Judges and the Adversarial Process Appellate Judges and the ""Caseload Crisis"" The Supreme Court and the Judicial Process Chapter 3: The ""Fight"" Theory versus the ""Truth"" Theory - Jerome Frank Chapter 4: The Adversary Judge: The Experience of the Trial Judge - Marvin E. Frankel The Role as Written The Adversary Performance The Judge Embattled The Judge Discomforted Chapter 5: The Business of the U.S. District Courts - D. Brock Hornsby Civil Lawsuits Criminal Prosecutions Conclusion Chapter 6: What I Ate for Breakfast and Other Mysteries of Judicial Decision Making - Alex Kozinski Chapter 7: Whose Federal Judiciary Is It Anyway? - Stephen Reinhardt Chapter 8: What Really Goes on at the Supreme Court - Lewis F. Powell Jr. Chapter 9: The Supreme Court′s Conference - William H. Rehnquist Chapter 10: Deciding What to Decide: The Docket and the Rule of Four - John Paul Stevens Chapter 11: The Role of Oral Argument - John M. Harlan II Chapter 12: The Dissent: A Safeguard of Democracy - William O. Douglas Search for Certainty Legislative Process One of Compromise Interpretation Has Legislative Characteristics Stare Decisis Has Small Place in Constitutional Law Uncertainty Necessary for Democracy Judges Share Crises of Modern Society Part III: The Judiciary and the Constitution Chapter 13: Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States - Joseph Story Preface Chapter IV. Who Is Final Judge or Interpreter in Constitutional Controversies Chapter V. Rules of Interpretation Chapter 14: The Path of Law - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Chapter 15: The Judge as a Legislator - Benjamin N. Cardozo Chapter 16: The Notion of a Living Constitution - William H. Rehnquist Chapter 17: A Relativistic Constitution - William Wayne Justice Chapter 18: The Jurisprudence of Judicial Restraint: A Return to the Moorings - J. Clifford Wallace The Constitution and the Theory of Judicial Restraint The Practical Application of Judicial Restraint Judicial Restraint′s Response to Judicial Activism Chapter 19: Tradition and Morality in Constitutional Law - Robert H. Bork Chapter 20: What Am I, a Potted Plant? The Case Against Strict Constructionism - Richard A. Posner Chapter 21: Originalism: The Lesser Evil - Antonin Scalia Chapter 22: Judging - Clarence Thomas Chapter 23: The Constitution: A Living Document - Thurgood Marshall Chapter 24: The Constitution of the United States: Contemporary Ratification - William J. Brennan Jr. Chapter 25: Originalism and History - John Paul Stevens Chapter 26: On Constitutional Interpretation - David H. Souter Chapter 27: Speaking in a Judicial Voice: Reflections on Roe v. Wade - Ruth Bader Ginsburg Chapter 28: Our Democratic Constitution - Stephen G. Breyer Chapter 29: Against Constitutional Theory - Richard A. Posner Part IV: Our Dual Constitutional System: The Bill of Rights and the States Chapter 30: The Bill of Rights - Hugo L. Black Chapter 31: Guardians of Our Liberties - State Courts No Less Than Federal - William J. Brennan Jr. Chapter 32: First Things First: Rediscovering the States′ Bills of Rights - Hans A. Linde History The Logic of Federalism Putting Principle into Practice Chapter 33: What Does - and Does Not - Ail State Constitutional Law - Jeffrey S. Sutton The Content and Length of State Constitutions The Ease of Amending State Constitutions Judicial Elections Lockstep Interpretations Conclusion Chapter 34: State Courts at the Dawn of a New Century: Common Law Courts Reading Statutes and Constitutions - Judith S. Kaye Common Law Courts Construing State Constitutions Common Law Courts Construing State Statutes"

Reviews

""I’ve been using O’Brien′s edited collection in my upper-division course on the U.S. Supreme Court since its first edition. As a supplement to a variety of other, more scholarly and journalist readings, O’Brien′s collection gives a compelling voice to the justices. Students welcome (and appreciate) the opportunity to directly explore the thinking and perspective of the nation′s leading jurists on virtually all the topics covered in the course, and the collection provides a productive foil to contemporary scholarship."" -- Mark P. Petracca ""Of the books I use in the Judicial Process course, my students consistently rate Judges on Judging as their favorite and most interesting. The articles delve deeply into the Court′s role in a constitutional republic and frequently lead to active student classroom debate. I’ve used O’Brien’s text for over a decade, and my students consistently come away with knowledge of the judiciary and its role in the American political system that is more sophisticated and nuanced."" -- John Hermann ""Judges on Judging is a comprehensive collection of essays with significant insights into the views of leading justices and judges on the judicial process, the dynamics of judicial interpretation, deliberation and decision-making, and the role of courts. O’Brien’s text offers students an extraordinary inside look at justices’ and judges’ thinking, their characters, judicial philosophies, and views of the judiciary in society. It is a practical and accessible resource for anyone interested in law and courts."" -- Karen L. Owen ""Judges on Judging is consistently rated by my students as their favorite book in my class. No other single volume provides them with such a clear and accessible sense of what judges do, what courts do, and the way judges think about their roles and their courts."" -- Douglas Edlin

I've been using O'Brien's edited collection in my upper-division course on the U.S. Supreme Court since its first edition. As a supplement to a variety of other, more scholarly and journalist readings, O'Brien's collection gives a compelling voice to the justices. Students welcome (and appreciate) the opportunity to directly explore the thinking and perspective of the nation's leading jurists on virtually all the topics covered in the course, and the collection provides a productive foil to contemporary scholarship. -- Mark P. Petracca Of the books I use in the Judicial Process course, my students consistently rate Judges on Judging as their favorite and most interesting. The articles delve deeply into the Court's role in a constitutional republic and frequently lead to active student classroom debate. I've used O'Brien's text for over a decade, and my students consistently come away with knowledge of the judiciary and its role in the American political system that is more sophisticated and nuanced. -- John Hermann Judges on Judging is a comprehensive collection of essays with significant insights into the views of leading justices and judges on the judicial process, the dynamics of judicial interpretation, deliberation and decision-making, and the role of courts. O'Brien's text offers students an extraordinary inside look at justices' and judges' thinking, their characters, judicial philosophies, and views of the judiciary in society. It is a practical and accessible resource for anyone interested in law and courts. -- Karen L. Owen Judges on Judging is consistently rated by my students as their favorite book in my class. No other single volume provides them with such a clear and accessible sense of what judges do, what courts do, and the way judges think about their roles and their courts. -- Douglas Edlin

Judges on Judging is consistently rated by my students as their favorite book in my class. No other single volume provides them with such a clear and accessible sense of what judges do, what courts do, and the way judges think about their roles and their courts. -- Douglas Edlin Judges on Judging is a comprehensive collection of essays with significant insights into the views of leading justices and judges on the judicial process, the dynamics of judicial interpretation, deliberation and decision-making, and the role of courts. O'Brien's text offers students an extraordinary inside look at justices' and judges' thinking, their characters, judicial philosophies, and views of the judiciary in society. It is a practical and accessible resource for anyone interested in law and courts. -- Karen L. Owen Of the books I use in the Judicial Process course, my students consistently rate Judges on Judging as their favorite and most interesting. The articles delve deeply into the Court's role in a constitutional republic and frequently lead to active student classroom debate. I've used O'Brien's text for over a decade, and my students consistently come away with knowledge of the judiciary and its role in the American political system that is more sophisticated and nuanced. -- John Hermann I've been using O'Brien's edited collection in my upper-division course on the U.S. Supreme Court since its first edition. As a supplement to a variety of other, more scholarly and journalist readings, O'Brien's collection gives a compelling voice to the justices. Students welcome (and appreciate) the opportunity to directly explore the thinking and perspective of the nation's leading jurists on virtually all the topics covered in the course, and the collection provides a productive foil to contemporary scholarship. -- Mark P. Petracca

Author Information

David M. O’Brien is the Leone Reaves and George W. Spicer Professor at the University of Virginia. Prior to teaching at the University of Virginia, he taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the University of Puget Sound, where he was chairman of the Department of Politics. He served as a research associate in the Office of the Administrative Assistant to the Chief Justice and, in 1982–1983, as a judicial fellow at the Supreme Court. He also has been a visiting fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York (1981–1982); has been a Fulbright lecturer in constitutional studies at Oxford University, England (1987–1988); has been a Fulbright researcher in Japan (1993–1994); has held the Fulbright Chair for Senior Scholars at the University of Bologna in Italy (1999); and was a visiting professor at Florida International University (2002) and at the Institut d’Etudes Politique, Université Lumière-Lyon II in Lyon, France (2006). Among his many books are Storm Center: The Supreme Court in American Politics, eleventh edition (2017), which won the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award; Constitutional Law and Politics: Struggles for Power and Governmental Accountability and Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, tenth edition, two volumes (2017); Animal Sacrifice and Religious Freedom: Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah (2004); To Dream of Dreams: Religious Freedom and Constitutional Politics in Postwar Japan (1996); Supreme Court Watch, published annually since 1991; Congress Shall Make No Law: The First Amendment, Unprotected Expression, and the U.S. Supreme Court (2010); Judicial Roulette (1988); What Process Is Due? Courts and Science Policy Disputes (1987); The Public’s Right to Know: The First Amendment and the Supreme Court (1981); and Privacy, Law, and Public Policy (1979). He has coauthored The Judicial Process: Law, Court and Judicial Politics (2015), Courts and Judicial Policymaking (2008) Government by the People (22nd ed. 2008), and Abortion and American Politics (1993); edited or coedited several books, including The Lanahan Readings on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, third edition (2010) and Judicial Independence in the Age of Democracy: Critical Perspectives from Around the World (2001); and contributed more than 100 articles and chapters in professional journals and books.  

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