Supreme Hubris
How Overconfidence Is Destroying the Court—and How We Can Fix It
$42.98
- Hardcover
328 pages
- Release Date
22 December 2023
Summary
The Supreme Court, once the most respected institution in American government, is now routinely criticized for rendering decisions based on the individual justices’ partisan leanings rather than on a faithful reading of the law. For legal scholar Aaron Tang, however, partisanship is not the Court’s root problem. Overconfidence is.
Conservative and liberal justices alike have adopted a tone of uncompromising certainty in their ability to solve society’s problems with just the right law…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780300264036 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0300264038 |
| Author: | Aaron Tang |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press |
| Imprint: | Yale University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 328 |
| Release Date: | 22 December 2023 |
| Weight: | 490g |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 216mm |
Critics Review
“Tang masterfully shows how overconfidence bias among U.S. Supreme Court justices has imperiled this once hallowed institution. A must read on where the Court went wrong, and how to fix it.”—Franita Tolson, author of In Congress We Trust?: Enforcing Voting Rights from the Founding to the Jim Crow Era
“Tang’s important book explains that the Supreme Court’s errors often stem from its overconfidence. He offers an innovative solution: justices should pursue the outcome that is likely to cause the least harm.”—Erwin Chemerinsky, author of Worse than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism
“Aaron Tang has accomplished something extraordinary. He has written a smart and original book about how the Supreme Court should do its job. It is almost impossible to say something truly new about constitutional law that makes a contribution. Tang has done that with his least harm principle.”—Eric Segall, author of Originalism as Faith
Aaron Tang
Aaron Tang is professor at the University of California, Davis, School of Law and a former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. His writings have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Slate.
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