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All Judges Are Political—Except When They Are Not: Acceptable Hypocrisies and the Rule of Law

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Description for All Judges Are Political—Except When They Are Not: Acceptable Hypocrisies and the Rule of Law Paperback. Comparing law to the American practice of common courtesy, this book explains how our courts not only survive under conditions of suspected hypocrisy, but actually depend on these conditions to function. Series: The Cultural Lives of Law. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: LNAA1; LNJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 407. Weight in Grams: 259.

We live in an age where one person's judicial "activist" legislating from the bench is another's impartial arbiter fairly interpreting the law. After the Supreme Court ended the 2000 Presidential election with its decision in Bush v. Gore, many critics claimed that the justices had simply voted their political preferences. But Justice Clarence Thomas, among many others, disagreed and insisted that the Court had acted according to legal principle, stating: "I plead with you, that, whatever you do, don't try to apply the rules of the political world to this institution; they do not apply."

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Law, like courtesy, furnishes a means of getting along. It frames disputes in collectively acceptable ways, and it is a habitual practice, drummed into the minds of citizens by popular culture and formal institutions. The rule of law, thus, is neither particularly fair nor free of paradoxical tensions, but it endures. Although pervasive public skepticism raises fears of judicial crisis and institutional collapse, such skepticism is also an expression of how our legal system ordinarily functions.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Series
The Cultural Lives of Law
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804753128
SKU
V9780804753128
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About Keith Bybee
Keith J. Bybee is Paul E. and the Hon. Joanne F. Alper '72 Judiciary Studies Professor at Syracuse University College of Law. He is the editor of Bench Press: The Collision of Courts, Politics, and the Media (Stanford University Press, 2007).

Reviews for All Judges Are Political—Except When They Are Not: Acceptable Hypocrisies and the Rule of Law
"In using courtesy to account for the current state of our legal system, Bybee offers a fresh take on debates over judicial legitimacy and legal realism. Rejecting the contention that the public is simply confused, he presents an original answer to the puzzle of the public's paradoxical perceptions of the judiciary. The pull of his explanation and the unconventional but ... Read more

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