Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2020
Abstract
I am honored to have been asked to give this year’s James Madison Lecture. I hesitate to single out any of my extraordinary predecessors at this podium – there are too many great judges to list, and too much risk of slighting any. So I will note only that the list includes both judges for whom I clerked more than forty years ago, Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., and Chief Judge Wilfred Feinberg, of the court on which I now serve. That long-ago law clerk could not have dreamed of being someday in a position once occupied by those two giants of my current profession: the art and craft of judging.
Disciplines
Judges | Jurisprudence | Law
Recommended Citation
Gerard E. Lynch,
Complexity, Judgment, and Restraint,
95
N.Y.U. L. Rev.
621
(2020).
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