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64 Docket 1 (2016)

handle is hein.journals/dock64 and id is 1 raw text is: BUFFALO LAW REVIEW THE DOCKET VOLUME 64 JANUARY 2016 PAGES 1-13 Linking Law and Life: Justice Sotomayor's Judicial Voice LAURA KRUGMAN RAYt In her five terms on the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become the most visible and recognizable Justice. Much of her public presence is owed to her recent autobiography, My Beloved World, which appeared in 2013 and promptly rose to the top of the New York Times bestseller list.' In the process, Sotomayor became a public celebrity, speaking candidly about her life in media interviews, appearing on Sesame Street, throwing out the first baseball at a Yankee Stadium game, and ushering in the New Year at Times Square.2 Readers of Justice Sotomayor's Supreme Court opinions might be surprised to find few traces of that exuberant personality. Instead, Sotomayor's voice is generally restrained, avoiding the emotional tone that characterizes her autobiography. But her judicial voice is scarcely dry and academic. It conveys a distinctive judicial persona, that of a judge who is often puzzled by the responses of her colleagues but not indignant in the manner of Justice Scalia3 or playfully t Professor of Law, Widener University Delaware Law School; J.D., Yale Law School, 1981; Ph.D., Yale University, 1971; A.B., Bryn Mawr College, 1967. 1. SONIA SOTOMAYOR, MY BELOVED WORLD (2013); See David Fontana, The People's Justice?, 123 YALE L.J. FORUM 447, 449 (2014). 2. For a substantial list of her public appearances, see Fontana, supra note 1, at 468-69. 3. Laura Krugman Ray, Judicial Personality: Rhetoric and Emotion in Supreme Court Opinions, 59 WAsH. & LEE L. REV. 193, 226-29 (2002).

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