Justice David Souter died on Thursday at his home in ... Chuck Grassley, who’s trying to trap him into articulating his views on “judicial activism,” and his response was kind of beautiful.

This article is part of a series on the legacy and jurisprudence of the late Justice David Souter. Charles Barzun is a Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, where he […] ...

At Harvard, he wrote his senior thesis on the judicial philosophy of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. Justice Souter admired the justice’s commitment to restraint and his view that rulings should ...

The key to Souter’s judicial philosophy was the idea, derived from the common-law method of precedent and also linked with the conservatism of Edmund Burke, that the rule of law works best to ...

Following retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter’s passing last month, commentators memorialized the justice with ...

The tenure of the late Justice David H. Souter on the Supreme Court helped shape the modern era of judicial confirmations.

Former Supreme Court Justice David Souter, a low-key New England Republican who was an unexpectedly liberal voice in his 18 years on the nation’s top court, died at his home Thursday, the Supreme ...

I’d argue that Souter’s perceived betrayal of conservatives has had two long-term effects on federal judicial nominations: But while the Federalist Society was founded during Ronald Reagan’s ...

There’s truth in that description. But it fails to capture the radical side of Souter’s judicial philosophy, his frank recognition of the way in which legal reasoning and social values are ...

The key to Souter’s judicial philosophy was the idea, derived from the common law method of precedent and also linked with the conservatism of Edmund Burke, that the rule of law works best to ...