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No Litmus Test
Michael C. Dorf
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Description for No Litmus Test
Paperback. Defends the possibility of principled legal decision-making against the attacks of both the right and the left. From Bush v Gore to the war in Iraq, this book demonstrates that even when the law provides no right answers, it offers tools for distinguishing good arguments from bad ones. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: LA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 494.
The courts and, indeed, the law itself are under assault from both right and left. Conservatives denounce what they see as liberal judicial activism in decisions involving abortion, gay rights, and the separation of church and state. They seek judges who will 'apply' rather than 'make' the law.
The courts and, indeed, the law itself are under assault from both right and left. Conservatives denounce what they see as liberal judicial activism in decisions involving abortion, gay rights, and the separation of church and state. They seek judges who will 'apply' rather than 'make' the law.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780742550308
SKU
V9780742550308
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About Michael C. Dorf
Michael C. Dorf is the Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law at Columbia University School of Law. He is the editor of Constitutional Law Stories (2004) and coauthor, with Laurence H. Tribe, of On Reading the Constitution (1991). He clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy (1991-1992) and Judge Stephen Reinhardt of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1990-1991).
Reviews for No Litmus Test
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 position 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
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