Barzun and Goldberg on The Nature of the Judicial Process at 100 (Introduction) @UVALaw @Harvard_Law

Charles L. Barzun, University of Virginia School of Law, and John C. P. Goldberg, Harvard Law School, have published Introduction: The Nature of the Judicial Process at 100 as Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2023-46. Here is the abstract.

This short essay introduces a symposium issue of the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities honoring the centenary of the publication of Benjamin Cardozo’s The Nature of the Judicial Process. The essay explains our motivating rationale for the symposium and then briefly summarizes the essays and comments that comprise it. The papers, which range from the historical to the philosophical to the literary, include contributions from Ken Abraham & G. Edward White, Amalia Amaya, Aditi Bagchi, Shyamkrishna Balganesh, Charles Barzun, John Goldberg, Leslie Kendrick, Irit Samet, Henry Smith, Bernadette Meyler, Konstanze von Schütz, and Benjamin Zipursky.

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Weisberg on Cardozo's "Law and Literature": A Guide To His Judicial Writing Style

Richard Weisberg, Cardozo School of Law, has published Cardozo's 'Law and Literature': A Guide to His Judicial Writing Style at 34 Touro Law Rev. 349 (2018). Here is the abstract.

Weisberg traces Judge Cardozo's advice about legal writing to the famous 1925 essay LAW AND LITERATURE and applies it to the judicial opinions and other published works of Cardozo and various other judges.

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