Law and Judicial Duty

Philip Hamburger

  • 2009 Paolucci/Bagehot book award, sponsored by The Intercollegiate Studies Institute
  • Preface
  • Introduction

    I. Law

  1. The Hierarchy of Law
  2. The Shift Toward Authority
  3. Constitutions

    4. II. Judicial Duty

  4. Judicial Duty
  5. Independent Judgment
  6. Judicial Decisions
  7. Authority to Expound

    8. III. Judicial Duty as to Legislative Acts

  8. No Appeal from Parliament
  9. Colonial Departures

    10. IV. Law and Judicial Duty in America

  10. Law and Judicial Duty
  11. Reason and Justice within the Law
  12. The Range of Constitutional Decisions and the Character of Judicial Duty

    13. V. Judicial Duty in America as to Legislative Acts

  13. Holding Legislative Acts Unconstitutional
  14. A Lopsided Debate
  15. Not Holding Legislative Acts Unconstitutional

    16. VI. Independence and Authority in America

  16. Independence
  17. Authority

    18. VII. Inexplicit

  18. The Inexplicitness of Constitutions
  19. Federal Clarifications
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix I. Bonham’s Case
  • Appendix II. The Institutio Legalis: Law and Justice in New Jersey
  • Appendix III. Common Law Adjacent to Statutes: Religious Taxes in Massachusetts
  • Chronological Table of State Decisions
  • Index
  • Cover: Law and Judicial Duty

Philip Hamburger is Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law at the Columbia Law School.