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Blindfolds off : judges on how they decide

Author: Joel Cohen; Richard A Posner
Publisher: Chicago, Illinois : American Bar Association, [2014] ©2014
Edition/Format:   Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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I have selected specific (generally, well-known) cases for the free-flowing dialogues that follow from the thousands of cases to which these 13 (alphabetized) judges have been assigned?those that have raised critical questions about justice, policy, precedent, the law, and the way in which the currents and tides of their lives and of our ever-changing society have influenced those rulings"--Preface
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Genre/Form: Interviews
Named Person: Drechsler
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Joel Cohen; Richard A Posner
ISBN: 9781627226783 1627226788 9781627226790 1627226796
OCLC Number: 884500466
Notes: "The 13 interviews that comprise this volume, all but two conducted during 2013, were tape recorded in the chambers of the respective judges, except for the interview of Judge Hittner, conducted in New York, the interview of (retired) Judge Walker, conducted at his law office in San Francisco, and the interview of (retired) Judge Gertner, conducted at her office at Harvard Law School."--Page xxvii
Description: XXVII, 313 pages ; 24 cm
Contents: Judge Leonie Brinkeman : the Moussaoui terrorism case --
Judge Denny Chin : Madoff: why 150 years? --
Judge Martin Feldman : Deepwater Horizon --
Judge Nancy Gertner : upbraiding the FBI --
Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein : managing and settling the 9/11 tort cases --
Judge David Hittner : an inner city project's demolition --
Judge John E. Jones III : intelligent design --
Judge Charles P. Kocoras : the failed expert --
Chief Judge Alex Kozinski : judging from the "bully pulpit" --
Judge Jed S. Rakoff : death is different --
Judge Emmet G. Sullivan : guilt, innocence, and prosecutorial misconduct --
Judge Vaughn R. Walker : same-sex marriage --
Judge Jack B. Weinstein : agent orange --
Epilogue --
Excerpt from the nature of the judicial process.
Responsibility: Joel Cohen ; foreword by Hon. Richard Posner, 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Abstract:

I have selected specific (generally, well-known) cases for the free-flowing dialogues that follow from the thousands of cases to which these 13 (alphabetized) judges have been assigned?those that have raised critical questions about justice, policy, precedent, the law, and the way in which the currents and tides of their lives and of our ever-changing society have influenced those rulings"--Preface

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