Tarlton Law Library: Judicial Clerks: Books on Judging & Opinion Writing

Judges on Judging

Disrobed: An Inside Look at the Life and Work of a Federal Trial Judge by Frederic Block
Call Number: KF 373 B56 A3 2012
By judge of US District Court of EDNY.
Federal Judges Revealed by William Domnarski
Call Number: KF 372 D66 2009
Selections from oral histories.
How Judges Think by Richard A. Posner
Call Number: K 2300 P67 2008
By judge on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Ipse Dixit: How the World Looks to a Federal Judge by William L. Dwyer
Call Number: KF 8775 D89 2007
By former judge of US District Court for the Western District of Washington.
Judges on Judging: Views from the Bench (4th ed.) by David M. O'Brien (Editor)
Call Number: KF 8775 A75 J82 2013
Judging: A Book for Student Clerks by Louis J. Sirico, Jr.
Copy available in CSO Library.
Keeton on Judging in the American Legal System by Robert E. Keeton
Call Number: KF 8775 K43 1999
By former judge of US District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
Nature of the Judicial Process by Benjamin N. Cardozo
Call Number: Multiple editions
Publication Date: 1921
By former judge of New York Court of Appeals and the US Supreme Court.
On Appeal: Courts, Lawyering, and Judging by Frank M. Coffin
Call Number: KF 8750 C625 1994
By former chief judge of 1st Circuit Court of Appeals.
Reflections on Judging by Richard A. Posner
Call Number: KF 9050 P55 2013
By judge on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Opinion Writing

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