<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>William O. Douglas, venerated by some and reviled by others, was very much his own man, disdaining his colleagues on the bench and the work they produced. For him, the point of judging was simply to do justice. However, justice is not always self evident, and legal norms and values, like objectivity and stare decisis, are ignored at a high cost. Nor, as it turns out, was his carefully carved authentic persona more than a mask of lies.</p></abstract>

William O. Douglas, venerated by some and reviled by others, was very much his own man, disdaining his colleagues on the bench and the work they produced. For him, the point of judging was simply to do justice. However, justice is not always self evident, and legal norms and values, like objectivity and stare decisis, are ignored at a high cost. Nor, as it turns out, was his carefully carved authentic persona more than a mask of lies.

William O. Douglas and The Assault on Objectivity

British Journal of American Legal Studies

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William O. Douglas, venerated by some and reviled by others, was very much his own man, disdaining his colleagues on the bench and the work they produced. For...

William O. Douglas and The Assault on Objectivity

Online veröffentlicht: 29. Mai 2020

Seitenbereich: 115 - 142

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bjals-2020-0001

Schlüsselwörter
Douglas, Supreme Court, Rule of Law, Legal Realism

© 2020 Thomas Halper, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

William O. Douglas and The Assault on Objectivity

Online veröffentlicht: 29. Mai 2020

Seitenbereich: 115 - 142

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bjals-2020-0001

SchlüsselwörterDouglas, Supreme Court, Rule of Law, Legal Realism

© 2020 Thomas Halper, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Schlüsselwörter
Douglas, Supreme Court, Rule of Law, Legal Realism