Responsibility and accountability in the criminal justice system – a challenge
An important issue that we ought to pay attention to when we select our leaders in November is how they…
Author: Steven Platt
Expanding Last Year’s New Year’s Resolutions
As the New Year approaches, I continue my series of Holiday reflection reiterating and expanding last year’s New Year’s Resolutions….
Law and Responsibility
It is fashionable in some quarters today for “pundits, politicians and assorted talking heads,” when asked to comment on a…
The Primaries are over in Maryland
The primaries are over in Maryland. There was a time in the not too distant past when that meant that,…
Should we leave the effort to reconcile the various jurisprudential philosophies to economists
As my last column closed, I asked whether we wish to leave the effort to reconcile the various jurisprudential philosophies…
Who’s winning, who’s losing
With the election over, the headlines and the stories that follow them turn from charge and countercharge, who’s winning, who’s…
A Judge Cannot Have Any Agenda
“A Judge Cannot Have Any Agenda” Judge Samuel Alito’s Opening Statement Senate Judiciary Committee – January 9, 2006 We have…
The Tempting of America
Former D. C. Court of Appeals Judge and rejected Supreme Court Nominee Robert Bork writes in his book, THE TEMPTING…
The “Legal Process School of Jurisprudence” a/k/a “Formalism”
The “Legal Process School of Jurisprudence” a/k/a “Formalism” was described in my last column. This view of how the legal…
However, the law is usually limited, as are judges, in what can be accomplished
As the New Year approaches, I will break from my series on Judicial Philosophy and propose my own New Year’s…