The Nature of the Judicial Process
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The Nature of the Judicial Process is a tract on judicial decision making. It advocates a method for solving the great problem: grey areas in the law. It prescribes a method of four parts for making a decision. It was Cardozo's way, modeled after Holmes, of making law.
The four parts of the methodology outlined in Cardozo's treatise are:
The Method of Philosophy
The Method of History
The Method of Tradition
The Method of Sociology