Boston University Law Review
Volume 86 Number 5 - December 2006
SYMPOSIUM: THE ROLE OF THE JUDGE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Introduction
Eva S. Nilsen
Page 1037
The Role of the Judge in the Twenty-First Century
Richard A. Posner
Page
1049
Seeing the Emperor’s Clothes: Recognizing the Reality of Constitutional Decision Making Erwin Chemerinsky
Page
1069
The Role of Law in Close Cases: Some Evidence from the Federal Courts of Appeals
Ward Farnsworth
Page 1083
The Real Roles of Judges
Michael Boudin
Page 1097
Whither and Whether Adjudication?
Judith Resnik
Page 1101
Securing the Normative Foundations of Litigation Reform
Robert G. Bone
Page 1155
Re-Examining Mediator and Judicial Roles in Large, Complex Litigation: Lessons from Microsoft and Other Megacases
Eric D. Green
Page 1171
Judges as “Amateur Scientists”
David L. Faigman
Page 1207
Inside the Bankruptcy Judge’s Mind
Jeffrey J. Rachlinski, Chris Guthrie, Andrew J. Wistrich
Page 1227
What’s Old Is New Again
Michael J. Gerhardt
Page 1267
Identifying “Independence”
Sanford Levinson
Page 1297
The Judicial Role in National Security
Stephen Reinhardt
Page 1309
Civil Liberties v. National Security in the Law’s Open Areas
Geoffrey R. Stone
Page 1315
“A Shining City on a Hill:” American Exceptionalism and the Supreme Court’s Practice of Relying on Foreign Law
Steven G. Calabresi
Page 1335
Our Law, Their Law, History, and the Citation of Foreign Law
David J. Seipp
Page 1417
Predicting the Future of Empirical Legal Studies
James Lindgren
Page 1447
What Will Determine the Role of the Judiciary in the Twenty-First Century?
Juan R. Torruella
Page 1461