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"Judges and legal scholars talk past one another, if they have any conversation at all. Academics couch their criticisms of judicial decisions in theoretical terms, which leads many judges - at the risk of intellectual stagnation - to dismiss most academic discourse as opaque and divorced from reality. Richard Posner turns his attention to this widening gap within the legal profession, reflecting on its causes and consequences and asking what can be done to close or at least narrow it. The shortcomings of academic legal analysis are real, but they cannot disguise the fact that the modern…
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2 editions- Other · English · 2016Harvard University Press · 350 pages · 9780674915596
- Other · English · 2016Harvard University Press · 414 pages · 9780674286030
Judicial processLawJudgesTraining ofStudy and teachingLaw, study and teachingNew York Times reviewed
