The Federal Judiciary: Strengths and Weaknesses
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (610 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674975774 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 464 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Posner is Circuit Judge, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. . Richard A
Posner's newest book is a delightfully iconoclastic critique of ideas many judges and academics hold dear, full of interesting, original, and wide-ranging claims for reform in the federal judiciary and law school teaching. (Publishers Weekly 2017-06-12) . Popkin, Indiana University Maurer School of Law)Persuasive…Serious-minded readers who relish an intellectually challenging read…will appreciate Posner’s reasoning. (William D. His critique of the federal bench as dangerously enthralled to backward-looking judicial standpattism will be controversial, as will his proposals for reform, but they cannot be ignored. (Victoria Nourse, author of Misreading Law, Misreading Democracy)In this book on the federal judiciary, Judge Posner takes aim at every sacred legal cow: the Supreme Court a
Posner does in this, his most confrontational book. Skewering the politicization of the Supreme Court, the mismanagement of judicial staff, the overly complex system of appeals, the threat of originalism, outdated procedures, and the backward-looking traditions of law schools and the American judicial system, Posner has written a cri de coeur and a battle cry. No sitting federal judge has ever written so trenchant a critique of the federal judiciary as Richard A. Judicial culture adheres to an antiquated traditionalism, Posner argues, that inhibits progressive responses to threats from new technologies and other unforeseen challenges to society.With practical prescriptions for overhauling judicial practices and precedents, The Federal Judiciary offers an unequaled resource for understanding the institution designed by the founders to check congressional and presidential power and