"In the current legal climate where "everyone is an originalist," conventional wisdom suggests that judges merely find, rather than make, law. Orthodox common-law jurisprudence makes fidelity to the past the central goal and criterion. By contrast, the alternative approach, "reading the law forward"-what some call judicial pragmatism or consequentialism-is viewed as heretical. Rather than mount a theoretical defense of a forward-thinking jurisprudence, legal historian Peter Hoffer offers an empirical study of how this ...
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"In the current legal climate where "everyone is an originalist," conventional wisdom suggests that judges merely find, rather than make, law. Orthodox common-law jurisprudence makes fidelity to the past the central goal and criterion. By contrast, the alternative approach, "reading the law forward"-what some call judicial pragmatism or consequentialism-is viewed as heretical. Rather than mount a theoretical defense of a forward-thinking jurisprudence, legal historian Peter Hoffer offers an empirical study of how this approach to constitutional interpretation leads to better law. Reading Law Forward looks at seven judges, from John Marshall to Stephen G. Breyer, who exemplify this alternative jurisprudence"--
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