Written to be accessible to the intelligent layman while broadening even the seasoned expert's understanding, Michael Dorf's colorful, creative and invariably clear analyses of the most vexing constitutional controversies of our time add up to a compelling case for an approach to law and to judging that rejects the extremes of both right and left — and emerges with a ... Read moreposition more reasonable and reasoned than either and both more interesting, and more surprising, than a simple average of the two.
Laurence H. Tribe, Harvard University Professor Dorf strives for fairness throughout, arguing against fetishizing the law at the cost of losing valuable nonlegal perspectives.
Harvard Law Review, March 2007
A distinguished law professor shows that law is—and must be—something more than politics by other means. Using contemporary examples, many of which the reader will find familiar, the author teases out a remarkably coherent theory of principled judging. This splendid effort takes the reader beyond hollow labels such as "judicial activist" and "strict constructionist" and gives important insights into the kind of thinking that we should look for in a federal judge or justice
Alex Kozinski, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit Show Less