Reading Law Forward: The Making of a Democratic Jurisprudence from John Marshall to Stephen G. Breyer

In the current legal climate where "everyone is an originalist," conventional wisdom suggests that judges merely find...
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Author: Peter Charles Hoffer
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Reading Law Forward: The Making of a Democratic Jurisprudence from John Marshall to Stephen G. Breyer by Hoffer, Peter Charles

Reading Law Forward: The Making of a Democratic Jurisprudence from John Marshall to Stephen G. Breyer

$134.20

Reading Law Forward: The Making of a Democratic Jurisprudence from John Marshall to Stephen G. Breyer

$134.20
Author: Peter Charles Hoffer
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

In the current legal climate where "everyone is an originalist," conventional wisdom suggests that judges merely find law, rather than make it. Orthodox common-law jurisprudence makes fidelity to the past the central goal and criterion. By contrast, the alternative approach, "reading the law forward"--what some call judicial pragmatism or consequentialism--is viewed as heretical. Rather than mount a theoretical defense of a forward-thinking jurisprudence, legal historian Peter Charles Hoffer offers an empirical study of how this approach to constitutional interpretation actually leads to better law. Reading Law Forward looks at seven judges who exemplify this alternative jurisprudence: John Marshall, Joseph Story, Lemuel Shaw, Louis D. Brandeis, Benjamin Cardozo, William O. Douglas, and Stephen G. Breyer.

"In the hands of America's leading judges, a jurisprudence of reading law forward enabled courts to respond to the challenges of changing conditions. It kept law fresh. It promoted and still promotes the growth of a democratic society," Hoffer convincingly argues.



Author: Peter Charles Hoffer
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 07/14/2023
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.30w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9780700635085

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