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 […] ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There’s no reason to think the justices have been waiting for Souter’s death to start televising their public hearings, but it is a good reminder that the court’s proceedings should be televised, even ...

I’m speaking of Justice David Souter, and regardless of what you thought ... I didn’t share his judicial philosophy (and frequently disagreed with his rulings), but I never doubted his ...

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 ...