Date Posted: December 2012
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Judge Wilkinson’s new book attacks four prominent theories of constitutional adjudication on the ground that they have undermined the most important judicial virtue, which is self-restraint. This review demonstrates that the author has failed to show that judicial restraint can operate as a free-standing substitute for an interpretive theory. Judge Wilkinson’s proffered alternative fails the same test that he uses to condemn all of the theories he considers, and his version of judicial restraint proves to be a confused mélange of judicial activism and judicial abdication.
Nelson Lund