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Law and Judicial Duty
Philip Hamburger
Hamburger reveals the familiar notion of judicial review to be largely an illusion produced by modern assumptions, and he shows that what today is called “judicial review” was once understood more simply as part of the duty of judges to decide in accord with the law of the land.
Hardcover November 2008
How Judges Think
Richard A. Posner
A distinguished and experienced appellate court judge, Posner offers in this new book a unique and, to orthodox legal thinkers, a startling perspective on how judges and justices decide cases.
Hardcover April 2008
Justice in Robes
Ronald Dworkin
How should a judge's moral convictions bear on his judgments about what the law is? In his new book, Ronald Dworkin argues that this question is much more complex than it has often been taken to be and charts a variety of dimensions in which law and morals are undoubtedly interwoven. Dworkin's new collection of essays and original chapters is a model of lucid, logical, and impassioned reasoning that will advance the crucially important debate about the roles of justice in law.
Paperback April 2008

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