The Flight From Judgment: Reflections on Benjamin Barton’s An Empirical Study of Supreme Court Justice Pre-Appointment Experience

Authors

Jennifer Hendricks, University of Colorado Law SchoolFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication

Florida Law Review Forum

Year

2012

Citation Information

Jennifer Hendricks, The Flight from Judgment: Reflections on Benjamin Barton's An Empirical Study of Supreme Court Justice Pre-Appointment Experience, 64 Fla. L. Rev. F. 34 (2012), https://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/flr/vol64/iss5/19/, available at http://scholar.law.colorado.edu/articles/977/.

Abstract

Discusses J. McIntyre Machinery, Ltd. v. Nicastro as an example of the Supreme Court's failure to rely on practical wisdom, in connection with the historic shift toward increasingly elite credentials for the justices.

Comments

This article comments on Benjamin H. Barton, An Empirical Study of Supreme Court Justice Pre-Appointment Experience, 64 Fla. L. Rev.1137 (2012).

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