By William D. Popkin
ISBN-10: 0814767265
ISBN-13: 9780814767269
During this sweeping examine of the judicial opinion, William D. Popkin examines how judges’ critiques were offered from the early American Republic to the current. all through historical past, he keeps, judges have offered their reviews inside of political contexts that contain projecting judicial authority to the exterior public, but inside of a qualified felony tradition that calls for reviews to enhance judicial legislation via specific institutional and person judicial styles.
Tracing the background of judicial opinion from its roots in English universal legislation, Popkin files a normal shift from unofficially pronounced oral evaluations, to semi-official stories, to the U.S. superb Court’s adoption within the early 19th century of ordinarily unanimous evaluations. whereas this institutional base used to be firmly tested via the 20 th century, Popkin means that the fashionable U.S. judicial opinion has reverted—in a few respects—to one within which each one pass judgement on expresses anyone standpoint. eventually, he concludes shift from an authoritative to a extra own and exploratory person type of writing critiques is in step with a extra democratic judicial establishment.
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S. 2 This version of separation 43 44 | The United States Founding of powers still leaves room for government branches to share power (through a system of checks and balances). The federal Constitution adopted the “shared power” approach (along with judicial independence),3 even though in the context of judging it was uncertain how much power federal judges had. This uncertainty stemmed in part from lack of clarity over the source of judicial power—whether derived from the people (which was the source of power for legislatures and juries)4 or from the vesting of the judicial power in the courts by Article III of the Constitution.
For example, the rapport often contains multiple proposed opinions, acknowledging the possibilities of disparate results that would have been apparent from multiple seriatim opinions in the English practice. Significantly, the authors of these documents write in the first person and in a chatty, conversational 40 | The English Tradition and Its Evolution style, much closer to the older style of oral opinions used by English judges and remote from the formal syllogistic style of decisions authored by French courts.
If, in fact, the Law Lords are moving in the direction of an opinion of the court, we should not be surprised. S. Supreme Court by adhering to the practice of aggregating multiple opinions into an opinion of the court (which was usually unanimous in the early years). A similar effort by the modern House of Lords might be expected as it tries to find a new foundation for judicial lawmaking power in an environment where legislation is the dominant institutional source of law. Although individual judicial opinions, viewed merely as evidence of law, were acceptable when a close-knit bench and bar controlled the law and legal expertise made up for any hint of judicial fallibility, something new is needed when a wider public is skeptical of legal expertise and judges admit to making law.