Introduction: The Nature of the Judicial Process at 100

Abstract

This short essay introduces a symposium issue of the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities honoring the centenary of the publication of Benjamin Cardozo’s The Nature of the Judicial Process. The essay explains our motivating rationale for the symposium and then briefly summarizes the essays and comments that comprise it. The papers, which range from the historical to the philosophical to the literary, include contributions from Ken Abraham & G. Edward White, Amalia Amaya, Aditi Bagchi, Shyamkrishna Balganesh, Charles Barzun, John Goldberg, Leslie Kendrick, Irit Samet, Henry Smith, Bernadette Meyler, Konstanze von Schütz, and Benjamin Zipursky.

Keywords: Cardozo, Posner, Dworkin, Calabresi, Equity, Common Law