Judicial Entrepreneurship: The Role of the Judge in the Marketplace of Ideas

by Wayne V. McIntosh

A fresh and provocative perspective on the judicial process and the transmission of ideas into law. Professors McIntosh and Cates demonstrate, through the actions and writings of such diverse jurists as Louis Brandeis, Sandra Day O'Connor, Jerome Frank, and Hans Linde, how judges' pet intellectual projects become the fodder for new ideas in the law.

Through a series of case studies, Professors McIntosh and Cates argue for the assessment...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313305196
• ISBN13: 9780313305191
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"