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