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Bork, Robert H. Coercing Virtue: the Worldwide Rule of Judges.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Sept. 2003.168p. AEI, $25 (0-8447-4162-0). 303.48.
It may not reach the best-seller lists, as the much bigger Slouching towards Gomorrah (1996) did, but this concentrated and cogent statement on the preeminent object of his concern--the state of the judiciary--may be Bork's most important book for nonspecialist readers. Throughout the world, Bork says, judges rather than legislators are making and repealing laws, and internationalizing law as they do. Getting to particulars, he discusses the U.S., Canadian, and Israeli supreme courts, adducing evidence of each deciding cases partisanly and ideologically ...
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