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William O. Douglas and The Assault on Objectivity

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AuthorThomas Halper
PositionProfessor, Political Science, Baruch College & CUNY Graduate Center
Pages115-142
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


William O. Douglas, venerated by some and reviled by others, was very much his
own man, disdaining his colleagues on the bench and the work they produced. For
him, the point of judging was simply to do justice. However, justice is not always self
evident, and legal norms and values, like objectivity and stare decisis, are ignored at
a high cost. Nor, as it turns out, was his carefully carved authentic persona more than
a mask of lies.

Douglas, Supreme Court, Rule of Law, Legal Realism
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   
    forget
about the law
 Conrmation Hearing on the Nomination of John G. Roberts, Jr. to Be Chief Justice of
the United StatesHearing before the S. Comm. on the Judiciary
 
 

    General Observations on the Eects of Personal, Political, and
Economic Inuences in the Decisions of Judges 
           

Extraneous Factors in Judicial Decisions

 The Hornbook Method and the Conict of Laws

 The Theory of Judicial Decision: Or How Judges Think

  Legal Realism and Legal Doctrine      
  
 


Supreme Court Justices Are Not Really Justices
The Supreme Court Shouldn’t Be So Important

   quoted in   An Exit Interview with Richard Posner,
Judicial Provocateur
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