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Evolution of the Judicial Opinion: Institutional and Individual Styles
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Tracing the history of judicial opinion from its roots in English common law, Popkin documents a general shift from unofficially reported oral opinions, to semi-official reports, to the U.S. Supreme Court's adoption in the early nineteenth century of generally unanimous opinions. While this institutional base was firmly established by the twentieth century, Popkin suggests that the modern U.S. judicial opinion has reverted—in some respects—to one in which each judge expresses an individual point of view. Ultimately, he concludes that a shift from an authoritative to a more personal and exploratory individual style of writing opinions is consistent with a more democratic judicial institution.
William D. Popkin - Personal Name
11 EVO wil
978-0-8147-6726-9
11 EVO wil
Book
English
New York University Press
2007
United States of America
various pages; 25.5cm
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