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Judge : 26 Machiavellian lessons /
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UK,
OUP,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- The confirmation process and the virtues of duplicity
- How to be aggressive and passive ... and great
- Recusal and the vices of impartiality
- The use and misuse of the politics of personality
- Fortuna : the role of chance in choosing cases
- When and why to avoid a case
- Carpe diem : when to embrace a case
- Tactical tools : using procedure to one's advantage
- Oral arguments : what to say and how
- When to lose a case and win a cause
- In defense of unprincipled decision making
- How to manipulate the rule of law
- When precedents are to be honored (if only formally)
- When to take command and make demands
- The boldest moves : when and how to make them
- On writing : when style should trump substance
- When it is wise to write a separate opinion
- Law clerks : when and how to use them
- How to play to the media
- Cameras in the courtroom : seizing the future
- On television : the medium is not the message
- On publishing books : when and of what kind
- The threat of impeachment and how best to avoid it
- When it is best to retire
- Directing history : a justice's working papers and what to do with them
- How to best secure an enduring legacy.