A distinguished and experienced appellate court judge, Richard A. Posner offers in this new book a unique and, to orthodox legal thinkers, a startling perspective on how judges and justices decide cases. When conventional legal materials enable judges to ascertain the true facts of a case and apply clear pre-existing legal rules to them, Posner argues, they do so straightforwardly; that is the domain of legalist reasoning. However, in non-routine cases, the conventional materials run out and judges are on their own, navigating uncharted seas with equipment consisting of experience, emotions, and often unconscious beliefs. In doing so, they take on a legislative role, though one that is confined by internal and external constraints, such as professional ethics, opinions of respected colleagues, and limitations imposed by other branches of government on freewheeling judicial discretion. Occasional legislators, judges are motivated by political considerations in a broad and sometimes a narrow sense of that term. In that open area, most American judges are legal pragmatists. Legal pragmatism is forward-looking and policy-based. It focuses on the consequences of a decision in both the short and the long term, rather than on its antecedent logic. Legal pragmatism so understood is really just a form of ordinary practical reasoning, rather than some special kind of legal reasoning.
Supreme Court justices are uniquely free from the constraints on ordinary judges and uniquely tempted to engage in legislative forms of adjudication. More than any other court, the Supreme Court is best understood as a political court.
Richard A. Posner is a judge of the U.S. Court Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. He is the author of numerous books, including Overcoming Law, a New York Times Book Review editors' choices for best book of 1995 and An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton, one of Times' choices for Best Book of the Year in 1999 and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist, 2000.
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评分坦白说,这本书的语言风格极其精准和富有张力,作者似乎对每一个词汇的选择都经过了反复推敲,力求达到最高的信息密度和表达效率。他的行文风格如同精密的外科手术刀,干净利落地切入问题的核心,毫不拖泥带水,却又在关键处留有足够的余韵供读者回味。与一些过于口语化或过于晦涩难懂的学术写作不同,这本书成功地在严谨与流畅之间找到了一个完美的平衡点。阅读时,你会感受到一种智识上的愉悦,仿佛在欣赏一位技艺精湛的大师如何用最简洁的笔触勾勒出最复杂的结构。这种对语言的驾驭能力,本身就是一种值得学习的典范,它教会了我如何更清晰、更有力地表达复杂想法,避免不必要的歧义和冗余。
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评分great analysis of the existing problems in the US judges selection and the overall judicial system, how it processes all different kinds of cases, and yet lack of proposals of feasible solutions to various problem raised by Judge Posner himself...
评分great analysis of the existing problems in the US judges selection and the overall judicial system, how it processes all different kinds of cases, and yet lack of proposals of feasible solutions to various problem raised by Judge Posner himself...
评分great analysis of the existing problems in the US judges selection and the overall judicial system, how it processes all different kinds of cases, and yet lack of proposals of feasible solutions to various problem raised by Judge Posner himself...
评分great analysis of the existing problems in the US judges selection and the overall judicial system, how it processes all different kinds of cases, and yet lack of proposals of feasible solutions to various problem raised by Judge Posner himself...
评分great analysis of the existing problems in the US judges selection and the overall judicial system, how it processes all different kinds of cases, and yet lack of proposals of feasible solutions to various problem raised by Judge Posner himself...
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