Title: Limiting Judges: A Review of Ralph Rossum’s 'Antonin Scalia’s Jurisprudence'
Abstract: Ralph A. Rossum’s monumental work, Scalia’s Jurisprudence: Text and Tradition, is “an attempt to articulate the contours of Justice Antonin Scalia’s understanding of constitutional and statutory interpretation and the role of the Court.” Rossum, the Henry Salvatori Professor of American Constitutionalism at Claremont McKenna College, seeks to “understand Scalia as he understands himself” by focusing on “his arguments and words.” To that end, he has reviewed approximately 600 majority, concurring, and dissenting opinions that Scalia wrote between the 1986 Term and the 2004 Term in order to gain a sense of how Scalia approaches the judicial craft. The result is a comprehensive analysis of the jurisprudence of the “most outspoken, intellectually interesting, high profile and colorful member” of the Court. Underlying the entire work is the ultimate objective of Scalia’s jurisprudence - limiting the power of judges.
Publication Year: 2006
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
Language: en
Type: review
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