All Judges Are Politicalexcept When They Are Not - Acceptable Hypocrisies and the Rule of Law

Zusatztext "Between costly partisan judicial elections and a Supreme Court that appears frozen in an ideological 5-4 split, there has never been a more apt time to answer conclusively the question of whether judges are apolitical oracles or ideological politicians. Bybee's answer—they are both—sounds at first like a discomfiting one. But in this fascinating book he shows that the courts' very survival in fact rests on the white lie of this fundamental tension." Informationen zum Autor Keith J. Bybee is Paul E. and the Hon. Joanne F. Alper '72 Judiciary Studies Professor at Syracuse University College of Law. He is the editor of Bench Press: The Collision of Courts, Politics, and the Media (Stanford University Press, 2007). Klappentext Comparing law to the American practice of common courtesy, this book explains how our courts not only survive under conditions of suspected hypocrisy, but actually depend on these conditions to function. Zusammenfassung Comparing law to the American practice of common courtesy, this book explains how our courts not only survive under conditions of suspected hypocrisy, but actually depend on these conditions to function.

Product details

• Authors: Keith Bybee, Keith J. Bybee, Bybee Keith
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.08.2010
• EAN: 9780804753128
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-5312-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: The Cultural Lives of Law; The Cultural Lives of Law; All Judges Are Political-Except When They Are Not
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law