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In this sweeping study of the judicial opinion, William D. Popkin examines how judges' opinions have been presented from the early American Republic to the present. Throughout history, he maintains, judges have presented their opinions within political contexts that involve projecting judicial...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Popkin, William D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, ©2007.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Judicial opinions > United States > History.
Judicial opinions > United States > Language > History.
Judicial process > United States > History.
Jugements > États-Unis > Histoire.
Jugements > États-Unis > Langage > Histoire.
Processus judiciaire > États-Unis > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Judicial Branch.
LAW > Legal Services.
LAW > Civil Procedure.
Judicial opinions
Judicial opinions > Language
Judicial process
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Sumario:In this sweeping study of the judicial opinion, William D. Popkin examines how judges' opinions have been presented from the early American Republic to the present. Throughout history, he maintains, judges have presented their opinions within political contexts that involve projecting judicial authority to the external public, yet within a professional legal culture that requires opinions to develop judicial law through particular institutional and individual judicial styles. Tracing the history of judicial opinion from its roots in English common law, Popkin documents a general shift from unofficially reported oral opinions, to semi-official reports, to the U.S. Supreme Court's adoption in the early nineteenth century of generally unanimous opinions. While this institutional base was firmly established by the twentieth century, Popkin suggests that the modern U.S. judicial opinion has reverted-in some respects-to one in which each judge expresses an individual point of view. Ultimately, he concludes that a shift from an authoritative to a more personal and exploratory individual style of writing opinions is consistent with a more democratic judicial institution.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (vii, 301 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-292) and index.
ISBN:9780814767498
0814767494
9780814768419
0814768415

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