How judges think /

Posner, Richard A.

How judges think / Richard A. Posner. - Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, c2008. - 387 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

Nine theories of judicial behavior -- The judge as labor-market participant -- The judge as occasional legislator -- The mind of the legislating judge -- The judicial environment : external constraints on judging -- Altering the environment : tenure and salary issues -- Judicial method : internal constraints on judging -- Judges are not law professors -- Is pragmatic adjudication inescapable? -- The Supreme Court is a political court -- Comprehensive constitutional theories -- Judicial cosmopolitanism.

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Judicial process.
Judicial process--United States.

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