理查德.波斯納,先後以最優生和年級第一名畢業於耶魯大學英文係(1959)和哈佛大學法學院(1962)。曾任美國聯邦最高法院大法官助理、聯邦政府律師、斯坦福大學法學院副教授(1968)、芝加哥大學法學院教授(1969)和講座教授。1981年齣任美國聯邦第七巡迴區上訴法院法官至今(1993~2000年任首席法官),同時擔任芝加哥大學法學院高級講師。
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.
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Scribes Journal of Legal Writing 1993 *45 "HOW I WRITE" ESSAYS Richard A. Posner [FNa1] Copyright ?1993 by Scribes; Richard A. Posner ...
評分Scribes Journal of Legal Writing 1993 *45 "HOW I WRITE" ESSAYS Richard A. Posner [FNa1] Copyright ?1993 by Scribes; Richard A. Posner ...
評分1、怎麼理解“政治性”?模糊之中,總是容易武斷地將政治與權力掛鈎。似乎,所謂政治,不過是權力的鬥爭,不過是領導人相互扳手腕的另一種存在。或許藉著人民的外套,但終歸是戒律嚴明的你我不理解。 放到中國的司法現實來看,則意味著,法院是不是得時時刻刻地跟在政府後麵俯...
評分Scribes Journal of Legal Writing 1993 *45 "HOW I WRITE" ESSAYS Richard A. Posner [FNa1] Copyright ?1993 by Scribes; Richard A. Posner ...
評分1、怎麼理解“政治性”?模糊之中,總是容易武斷地將政治與權力掛鈎。似乎,所謂政治,不過是權力的鬥爭,不過是領導人相互扳手腕的另一種存在。或許藉著人民的外套,但終歸是戒律嚴明的你我不理解。 放到中國的司法現實來看,則意味著,法院是不是得時時刻刻地跟在政府後麵俯...
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A possible good book...
評分A possible good book...
評分A possible good book...
評分A possible good book...
評分波斯納的書都是一個套路:看起來是一大篇吐槽,細讀還挺有道理,讀完以後又感到有些無力。司法解釋一嚮被認為是法院的製衡要器,焉知實用主義法官可能邊解釋邊罵荒謬。但“實用”僅是一種指明方嚮的態度,連最聰明的法官也隻能嘆息一聲,又翻起哲學書瞭。
How Judges Think 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載