A socio-legal methodology for the internal/external distinction: Jurisprudential implications

Fordham Law Review

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1255-1274

  Tamanaha, Brian Z ^a  

^a ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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1. Confirmation Hearing on the Nomination of Samuel A. Alito, Jr. to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States: Hearing Before the S. Comm. on the Judiciary, 109th Cong. 56 (2006) [hereinafter Alito Confirmation Hearing] (statement of Samuel A. Alito, Jr.).
2. Confirmation Hearing on the Nomination of John G. Roberts, Jr. to be Chief Justice of the United States: Hearing Before the S. Comm. on the Judiciary, 109th Cong. 56 (2005) (statement of John G. Roberts, Jr.).
3. See, e.g., Andrew Cohen, All the Pretty Words, CBSNews.com, Jan. 10, 2006, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/01/10/opinion/courtwatch/ main1198665.shtml.
4. Lee Epstein & Jeffrey A. Segal, Advice and Consent: The Politics of Judicial Appointments 3 (2005) (quoting C. Herman Pritchett, Divisions of Opinion Among Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1939-1941, 35 Am. Pol. Sci. Rev. 890, 890 (1941)).
5. Richard A. Posner, The Supreme Court 2004 Term; Foreword: A Political Court, 119 Harv. L. Rev. 31, 46 (2005).
6. See, e.g., Jack M. Balkin & Sanford Levinson, The Processes of Constitutional Change: From Partisan Entrenchment to the National Surveillance State, 75 Fordham L. Rev. 489 (2006).
7. See Jeffrey A. Segal & Harold Spaeth, The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model Revisited (2002).
8. See generally Epstein & Segal, supra note 4;
9. Posner, supra note 5.
10. Alito Confirmation Hearing, supra note 1, at 37 (statement of Sen. Charles E. Schumer, Member, S. Comm. on the Judiciary).
11. See Elizabeth Bumiller, White House Tries to Quell a Rebellion on the Right, N.Y. Times, Oct. 7, 2005, at A20;
12. David D. Kirkpatrick, New Questions from the Right on Court Pick, N.Y. Times, Oct. 6, 2005, at A1.
13. See David D. Kirkpatrick, On Party Lines, Panel Approves Alito for Court: Heated Debate in Senate; Republicans Threaten to Retaliate on Nominees from Democrats, N.Y. Times, Jan. 25, 2006, at A1.
14. See G. Edward White, Constitutional Change and the New Deal: The Internalist/Externalist Debate, 110 Am. Hist. Rev. 1094 (2005).
15. See Stephen M. Feldman, The Rule of Law or the Rule of Politics? Harmonizing the Internal and External Views of Supreme Court Decision Making, 30 Law & Soc. Inquiry 89 (2005).
16. For an overview of these approaches, see Brian Z. Tamanaha, Realistic Socio-Legal Theory: Pragmatism and a Social Theory of Law, at ch. 3 (1997).
17. See generally James Bohman, New Philosophy of Social Science: Problems of Indeterminacy (1991).
18. See, e.g., Donald Black, The Behavior of Law (1976);
19. Donald Black, Sociological Justice (1989).
20. Donald Black, The Epistemology of Pure Sociology, 20 Law & Soc. Inquiry 829, 849 (1995).
21. Id. at 866.
22. Tamanaha, supra note 14, at 157 (citing Max Weber, The Theory of Social and Economic Organization 88 (1964)).
23. Anthony T. Kronman, Max Weber 16-17 (1983).
24. Peter Winch, The Idea of a Social Science and its Relation to Philosophy 115 (1958).
25. Id. at 110.
26. H.L.A. Hart, The Concept of Law 289 (2d ed. 1994) (citing Winch, supra note 21, at 57, 65, 84-94).
27. See generally Feldman, supra note 13, at 89.
28. Hart, supra note 23, at 88-89.
29. Id. at 89.
30. Id. at 90.
31. Joseph Raz, The Authority of Law: Essays on Law and Morality 155 (1979).
32. Neil MacCormick, H.L.A. Hart 39 (1981).
33. H.L.A. Hart, Essays in Jurisprudence and Philosophy 14 (1983).
34. For a comprehensive reconstruction of Hart's approach, see Brian Z. Tamanaha, A General Jurisprudence of Law and Society, at ch. 6 (2001).
35. Richard A. Posner, The Problems of Jurisprudence 189 (1990).
36. See generally Stephen Turner, The Social Theory of Practices: Tradition, Tacit Knowledge, and Presuppositions (1994).
37. Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue 187-88 (2d ed. 1984).
38. Id. at 190.
39. Stanley Fish, Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric, and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies 386-87 (1989).
40. MacIntyre, supra note 34, at 181.
41. Id.
42. See generally Stanley Fish, Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities (1980).
43. Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Path of the Law, 10 Harv. L. Rev. 457, 461 (1897).
44. See Brian Z. Tamanaha, Law as a Means to an End: Threat to the Rule of Law, at ch. 3 (2006).
45. Holmes, supra note 40, at 457.
46. Id. at 460.
47. Hart, supra note 23, at 242.
48. Ronald Dworkin, Law's Empire 13-14 (1986).
49. Id. at 90.
50. See Harry T. Edwards, The Growing Disjunction Between Legal Education and the Legal Profession, 91 Mich. L. Rev. 34, 47 (1992).
51. See Benjamin N. Cardozo, The Nature of the Judicial Process (1921).
52. See Frederick Schauer, (Re)taking Hart, 119 Harv. L. Rev. 852 (2006) (reviewing Nicola Lacey, A Life of H.L.A. Hart: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream (2004)).
53. Brian Z. Tamanaha, On the Rule of Law: History, Politics, Theory 122 (2004).
54. Louis Menand, The Metaphysical Club 67 (2001) (quoting Letter from Oliver Wendell Holmes to John T. Morse (Nov. 28, 1926)).
55. Id. at 66.
56. For an exploration of this politicization, see Tamanaha, supra note 41, at ch. 10.
57. This argument is developed more fully in id., at ch. 13.
58. Id. at 124 (quoting H.R. Glick, Courts, Politics, and Justice 243 (1983)).
59. See Frank B. Cross, Decisionmaking in the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals, 91 Cal. L. Rev. 1457 (2003);
60. Cass R. Sunstein, David Schkade & Lisa Michelle Ellman, Ideological Voting on Federal Courts of Appeals: A Preliminary Investigation, 90 Va. L. Rev. 301 (2004). Although the authors emphasize that ideological effects show up, they also recognize that "[i]t would be possible to see our data as suggesting that most of the time, the law is what matters, not ideology." Id. at 336.
61. See Tamanaha, supra note 14, at ch. 7.