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<P><FONT FACE="Arial">From Judge Posner's new book - How Judges Think.</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Arial">Sound familiar?<BR>
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Joel Rich</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Arial">I am struck by how unrealistic are the conceptions of the judge held by most people, including practicing lawyers and eminent law professors, who have never been judges<SUP>3</SUP> – and even by some judges. This unrealism is due to a variety of things, including the different perspectives of the different branches of the legal profession – including also a certain want of imagination. It is also due to the fact that most judges are cagey, even coy, in discussing what they do. They tend to parrot an official line about the judicial process (how rule-bound it is), and often to believe it, though it does not describe their actual practices.<SUP>4</SUP> There is also the sense that judging really is a different profession from practicing or teaching law, and if you’re not in it you can’t understand it.</FONT></P>
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