Judicial biography

Article Abstract:

Studies of the judicial process should be considered as an alternative to judicial biography because of some of the inherent problems with biography in general and judicial biography in particular. Among the various forms that biographies take, judicial biographies often focus on ideology or discovering the subject's essential self. The ideological biography often departs from truth, and the essential nature of the subject is often a fiction created by the biographer. Writings on judges and courts are more constructive when they focus on cases and the deliberative process.

Judicial process

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Objectivity and hagiography in judicial biography

Article Abstract:

The various purposes of judicial biography can include attempting to find links between personality and judicial decision-making, narrating lives for the edification of others and providing other legal professionals with exposition of alternative career paths. The judicial biographer, and other biographers, often engage in the costly endeavor of exploring the lives of others because of personal interest. More abstract social science study of the judicial process may yield more robust theories, but the lives and experiences of individual judges are still worthy of study.

Posner, Richard A., Grey, Thomas C., Howard, J. Woodford, Jr., Post, Robert C.

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"Contracted" biographies and other obstacles to "truth." (response to article by Gerald Gunther in this issue, p. 697)(Symposium: National Conference on Judicial Biography)(Panel Discussion)

Article Abstract:

The issue of writing judicial biographies that are supportive or admiring of the subject raises questions of whether consistency and moral rectitude are necessary in the portrayal of the subject of a biography. While admiration may motivate the author to study the subject, authorized or contract status is likely to compromise the level of criticism that the author is willing to engage in. Biographers must also consider that, while consistency might be desirable as a theme, themes of growth or contradiction may be more appropriate once evidence is gathered.

Gunther, Gerald, Babcock, Barbara Allen, Horwitz, Morton J., Hutchinson, Dennis J.

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