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on court-centered social change. Those who oppose the role of the courts have challenged the legitimacy of judicial review by raising what is
forward for meaningful popular sovereignty and a basis for securing constitutional legitimacy. authors. Albert E. Jenner, Jr. Professor of Law and
critical for political legitimacy and durability.12 By linking this challenge to anal- ogous critiques of cost-benefit analysis in legal theory, this Feature
Juliet Musso, Power and Legitimacy in Place Government Ecosystems: A Comparative Analysis, in Hyperlocal: Place Governance in a Fragmented World 103, 112
think, to decide cases as cheaply as possible. Here, quick and easy mechanized decisions exact their own costs on judicial legitimacy—and society more
derives its legitimacy from the relatively small size of local ju- risdictions, a scale that allows residents to access and directly participate in gov
concerning sentencing are two of the best weapons judges have to bolster their legitimacy and preserve their decisional independence. Despite the
and democratic legitimacy, one hesitates to bring up something so pedestrian as the Code of Conduct for United States Judges. Still, legal ethics
American constitutional law. This Article argues that Section 5 is a structural device that fosters the democratic legitimacy of our constitutional
& Class 158 (2002). Jane Anna Gordon, Legitimacy from Modernity’s Underside: Potentiated Double Consciousness, World &… Jane Anna Gordon, Legitimacy from