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97 Cornell L. Rev. 191 (2011-2012)
Can the Rule of Law Survive Judicial Politics

handle is hein.journals/clqv97 and id is 205 raw text is: CAN THE RULE OF LAW SURVIVE JUDICIAL POLITICS? Charles Gardner Geyht INTRODUCTION ................................................. 192 I. THE SCHOLARLY DEBATE ON WHAT JUDGES Do: INCHING TOWARD CONSENSUS .................................... 197 A. The Ascendance of Formalism ...................... 197 B. The Rise and Fall of Legal Realism ................. 199 C. The Rebirth of Realism and the Rise of the Attitudinal M odel .. .............................. 200 D. The New Empiricists ................................ 206 1. Studies in Law and Politics: The Supreme Court .... 206 2. Studies in Law and Politics: The Lower Courts ...... 209 3. Studies in Law and Economics, Social Psychology, and Cognitive Psychology .......................... 212 II. THE PUBLIC POLICY DEBATE ON WHAT JUDGES Do: SIMPLSTIc AND DICHOTOMOUS .......................... 214 A. Court Critics and Their Vision of Judicial Decision M aking ............................................. 215 B. The Legal Establishment and Its Vision of Judicial Decision M aking .................................... 217 III. IMPEDIMENTS TO CONSENSUS IN THE PUBLIC POLICY D EBATE ................................................. 220 A. Public Opinion and Its Role in the Policy Debate... 220 B. Getting to the Bottom of the Ermine Myth ......... 225 IV. THE FUTURE OF THE ERMINE MYTH: THREE SCENARIOS ... 228 A. The Possibility that the Dichotomous Public Policy Debate Will Persist Without Consequence .......... 229 B. The Possibility that the Legal Establishment Will Lose the Dichotomous Public Policy Debate and Provoke a Crisis .................................... 234 C. The Possibility that Public Confidence in the Rule of Law and Judicial Independence Will Gradually E rode .............................................. 236 t Associate Dean of Research andJohn F. Kimberling Professor of Law, Indiana Uni- versity Maurer School of Law. I would like to thank Keith Bybee, Steve Burbank, Barry Friedman, Jim Gibson, Leandra Lederman, Ajay Mehrotra, Dave Pozen, Judith Resnik, James Sample, Roy Schotland, Greg Sisk, Brian Tamanaha, and Steve Wasby for their com- ments on an earlier draft. Thanks likewise to my research assistants Cristina Costa, Phillip Olsson, Mark Plantan, and Andy Williams, and my secretary, Rita Eads.

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