Title: Reflections on judging /
Authors: Posner, Richard A.
Year: 2013
Subjects: Judicial process United States; Appellate procedure United States.
Abstract: In Reflections on Judging, Richard Posner distills the experience of his thirty-one years as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Surveying how the judiciary has changed since his 1981 appointment, he engages the issues at stake today, suggesting how lawyers should argue cases and judges decide them, how trials can be improved, and, most urgently, how to cope with the dizzying pace of technological advance that makes litigation ever more challenging to judges and lawyers.
Contents: The road to 219 South Dearborn -- The federal judiciary evolves -- The challenge of complexity -- Formalism and realism in appellate decision making -- The inadequate appellate record -- Coping strategies for appellate judges I : judicial self-restraint Coping strategies for appellate judges II :interpretation -- Make it simple, make it new : opinion writing and appellate advocacy -- Forays into the district court -- What can be done, modestly?