In this famous treatise, a Supreme Court Justice describes the conscious and unconscious processes by which a judge decides a case. He discusses the sources of information to which he appeals for guidance and analyzes the contribution that considerations of precedent, logical consistency, custom, social welfare, and standards of justice and morals have in shaping his decisions.

Nature of the Judicial Process (The Storrs Lectures Series)

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

Criminal Law

Yale University Press

The growth of the law

Judge Cardozo develops further in this book the theory of law expressed in The Nature of Judicial Process.  Having dealt with the question, “How do I decide a case?” he now asks, “How should I decide it?”“The present work glows with the same passionate sincerity that marks his judicial utterances . . . facility of expression, breadth of imagination, and lucidity of thought.”—Columbia Law Review

The Growth of the Law

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The Nature of the Judicial Process

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Politics & Government

Wentworth Press

A distinguished jurist provides insights into the judicial role by asking and answering the question, "What is it that I do when I decide a case?" In this legal classic, Benjamin N. Cardozo — an Associate Supreme Court Justice of the United States from 1932-38 — explains a judge's conscious and unconscious decision-making processes. Cardozo handed down opinions that stressed the necessity for the law to adapt to the realities and needs of contemporary life. Famous for his convincing and lucid prose, he offers insights that remain relevant to a modern view of American jurisprudence. In simple, understandable language, he discusses the ways that rulings are guided and shaped by information, precedent and custom, and standards of justice and morals. Four of Cardozo's lectures appear here, bookended by an introduction and conclusion. They explore a variety of approaches to the judicial process: the method of philosophy; the methods of history, tradition, and sociology; the method of sociology and the judge as a legislator; and adherence to precedent and the subconscious element in the judicial process. Ideal for law students as well as anyone interested in legal theory, this volume offers a rare look inside the mind of a great jurist.

Law Practice

Dover Publications

The Nature Of The Judicial Process (1921)

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Professionals & Academics

Kessinger Publishing

The Paradoxes of Legal Science

Rules & Procedures

Praeger

Judge Cardozo discusses the twofold need of law today--first, a scientific restatement that will bring certainty out of the wilderness of precedent; second, a philosophy that will supply a principle of growth.

The first comprehensive annotated bibliography of Americanlegal commentary concerning women's issues to appear in theUnited States.Superseded by Cardozo Women's Law Journal.

Women's Annotated Legal Bibliography

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Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

William S. Hein & Co.

Disraeli, the Jew

Lazarus, Emma

History

Selzer & Selzer

Disraeli, the Jew: Essays by Benjamin Cardozo & Emma Lazarus

SELZER, Michael

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