Critical Race Judgments - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Critical Race Judgments write by Bennett Capers. This book was released on 2022-04-21. Critical Race Judgments available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. By re-writing US Supreme Court opinions that implicate critical dimensions of racial justice, Critical Race Judgments demonstrates that it's possible to be judge and a critical race theorist. Specific issues covered in these cases include the death penalty, employment, voting, policing, education, the environment, justice, housing, immigration, sexual orientation, segregation, and mass incarceration. While some rewritten cases – Plessy v. Ferguson (which constitutionalized Jim Crow) and Korematsu v. United States (which constitutionalized internment) – originally focused on race, many of the rewritten opinions – Lawrence v. Texas (which constitutionalized sodomy laws) and Roe v. Wade (which constitutionalized a woman's right to choose) – are used to incorporate racial justice principles in novel and important ways. This work is essential for everyone who needs to understand why critical race theory must be deployed in constitutional law to uphold and advance racial justice principles that are foundational to US democracy.
How Judges Think
How Judges Think - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How Judges Think write by Richard A. Posner. This book was released on 2010-05-01. How Judges Think available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Reflections on Judging
Reflections on Judging - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reflections on Judging write by Richard A. Posner. This book was released on 2013-10-07. Reflections on Judging available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Reflections on Judging, Richard Posner distills the experience of his thirty-one years as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Surveying how the judiciary has changed since his 1981 appointment, he engages the issues at stake today, suggesting how lawyers should argue cases and judges decide them, how trials can be improved, and, most urgently, how to cope with the dizzying pace of technological advance that makes litigation ever more challenging to judges and lawyers. For Posner, legal formalism presents one of the main obstacles to tackling these problems. Formalist judges--most notably Justice Antonin Scalia--needlessly complicate the legal process by advocating "canons of constructions" (principles for interpreting statutes and the Constitution) that are confusing and self-contradictory. Posner calls instead for a renewed commitment to legal realism, whereby a good judge gathers facts, carefully considers context, and comes to a sensible conclusion that avoids inflicting collateral damage on other areas of the law. This, Posner believes, was the approach of the jurists he most admires and seeks to emulate: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Brandeis, Benjamin Cardozo, Learned Hand, Robert Jackson, and Henry Friendly, and it is an approach that can best resolve our twenty-first-century legal disputes.
Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements
Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements write by American Nurses Association. This book was released on 2001. Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pamphlet is a succinct statement of the ethical obligations and duties of individuals who enter the nursing profession, the profession's nonnegotiable ethical standard, and an expression of nursing's own understanding of its commitment to society. Provides a framework for nurses to use in ethical analysis and decision-making.
Decisions of the Railroad Commission of the State of California
Decisions of the Railroad Commission of the State of California - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Decisions of the Railroad Commission of the State of California write by California Public Utilities Commission. This book was released on 1918. Decisions of the Railroad Commission of the State of California available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
