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HowToBeARealist 5 - 28 Jan 2009 - Main.AndrewCase
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This post is mostly about the interplay of social science and value judgments in Cohen's realistic judging. His description of the realistic judge can be found on page 842, but I think we can distill it down to the following simple instructions:
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 I thought this post was interesting. Above is an attempted edit. I haven't figured out how to do links though.

-- MichelleChun - 28 Jan 2009

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This makes more clear the link between Holmes-Cohen pragmatism and the law & economics school that dominates at least Contracts and Torts at CLS. The outcome that we are taught is 'desirable' always favors economic efficiency. Can we harness the decision-making process but put other goals in place? What would the goals be? How would we convince judges to value them?

-- AndrewCase - 28 Jan 2009

 
 
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