Judges on judging : views from the bench / collected and edited by David M. O'Brien.

Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2004.

2nd ed.

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Judges -- United States.

Judicial process -- United States.

Political questions and judicial power -- United States.

Part 1: Judicial review and American politics: historical and political pespectives

Introduction

1. The doctrine of judicial review: Mr. Marshall, Mr. Jefferson, and Mr. Marbury / Warren E. Burger

2. The Supreme Court in the American system of government / Robert H. Jackson

Part II: The dynamics of the judicial process

Introduction

3. The path of law / Oliver Wendell Holmes

4. Advice and consent in theory and practice / Roger J. Miner

5. The adversary judge: the experience of the trial judge / Marvin E. Frankel

What I ate for breakfast and other mysteries of judicial decision making / Alex Kozinski

7. Whose federal judiciary is it anyway? / Stephen Reinhardt

8. What really goes on at the Supreme Court / Lewis F. Powell Jr.

9. The Supreme Court's Conference / William H. Rehnquist

10. Deciding what to decide: the docket and the rule of four / John Paul Stevens

11. The role of oral argument / John M. Harlan II

12. Precedent and policy: judicial opinions and decision making / Walter V. Schaefer

Part III: The judiciary and the constitution

Introduction

13. The notion of a living constitution / William H. Rehnquist

14. A relativistic constitution / William Wayne Justice

15. The jurisprudence of judicial restraint: a return to the moorings / J. Clifford Wallace

16. Tradition and morality in constitutional law / Robert H. Bork

17. What am I, a potted plant? The case against strict constructionism / Richard A. Posner

18. Originalism: the lesser evil / Antonin Scalia

19. The Constitution: a living document / Thurgood Marshall

20. The Constitution of the United States: contemporary ratification / William J. Brennan Jr.

21. Speaking in a judicial voice: reflections on Roe v. Wade / Ruth Bader Ginsburg

22. Our democratic constitution / Stephen G. Breyer

23. Against constitutional theory / Richard A. Posner

24. The tow faces of judicial activism / William Wayne Justice

Part IV: The judiciary and federal regulation: line drawing and statutory interpretation

Introduction

25. Some reflections on the reading of statutes / Felix Frankfurter

26. What does legislative history tell us? / Frank H. Easterbrook

Part V: Our dual constitutional system: the bill of rights and the states

Introduction

27. The Bill of Rights / Hugo L. Black

28. Guardians of our liberties - state courts no less than federal / William J. Brennan Jr.

29. First things first: rediscovering the states' bills of rights / Hans A. Linde

30. State courts at the dawm of a new century: common law courts reading statutes and constitutions / Judith S. Kaye

Appendix A: Selected bibliography of off-the bench commentaries

Appendix B: Time chart of members of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Includes selected bibliography.

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