Subjects:

General Interest, Practice & Procedure, Jurisprudence

Contents:

The dynamics of influence - citation and its significance, the elusiveness of influence

the USA - judges on scholarship, academics on scholarship, what is to be done?

France - history of the ""note d'arret"", case notes and influence

England - the value of death, silver linings - better read when dead?, Pollock, Goodhart and case notes, modern times, conclusion

envoi.

""Jurists and Judges"" examines the nature of academic influence, and particularly the influence of juristic commentary on judicial decision-making. Focusing on three legal systems, its author argues that inter-jurisdictional comparisons of juristic influence are often simplistic and inattentive to problems of incommensurability. The centrepiece of the study is a detailed chapter offering a nuanced history of juristic influence in England. All academic lawyers who reflect upon the history and objectives of their profession - who, in other words, wonder what it is that they are about - should profit from reading this book.