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02973aam a2200349 i 4500 001 707C1166F89811E5ADB809B8DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160402010147 008 150318s2016 mau b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2015010906 020 $a 0674286030 (hbk) 020 $a 9780674286030 (hbk) 040 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a KF8775 $b .P67 2016 082 00 $a 347.73/5 $2 23 100 1 $a Posner, Richard A., $e author. 245 10 $a Divergent paths : $b the academy and the judiciary / $c Richard A. Posner. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b Harvard University Press, $c 2016. 300 $a xiv, 414 pages ; $c 22 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: a troubled relationship -- Problems of the modern Federal judiciary. Structural deformations -- Process deficiencies -- Management deficiencies -- The academy to the rescue? The contribution of scholarship -- The law school curriculum -- Continuing judicial education. 520 $a "Judges and legal scholars talk past one another, if they have any conversation at all. Academics couch their criticisms of judicial decisions in theoretical terms, which leads many judges - at the risk of intellectual stagnation - to dismiss most academic discourse as opaque and divorced from reality. Richard Posner turns his attention to this widening gap within the legal profession, reflecting on its causes and consequences and asking what can be done to close or at least narrow it. The shortcomings of academic legal analysis are real, but they cannot disguise the fact that the modern judiciary has several serious deficiencies that academic research and teaching could help to solve or alleviate. In U.S. federal courts, which is the focus of Posner's analysis of the judicial path, judges confront ever more difficult cases, many involving complex and arcane scientific and technological distinctions, yet continue to be wedded to legal traditions sometimes centuries old. Posner asks how legal education can be made less theory-driven and more compatible with the present and future demands of judging and lawyering. Law schools, he points out, have great potential to promote much-needed improvements in the judiciary, but doing so will require significant changes in curriculum, hiring policy, and methods of educating future judges. If law schools start to focus more on practical problems facing the American legal system rather than on debating its theoretical failures, the gulf separating the academy and the judiciary will narrow."--Book jacket / publisher's website. 650 0 $a Judicial process. 650 0 $a Judges $x Training of. 650 0 $a Law $x Study and teaching. 941 $a 3 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191211024218.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006092848.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20161004020224.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=707C1166F89811E5ADB809B8DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search