Six essays by scholars of politics and literature focus on the language used in legal judgments in the US, with a comparison to Europe. They cover public reason and the counter-majoritarian difficulty, recovering the Pritchett synthesis, judicial retention and same-sex marriage rulings, Kentucky's constitutional crisis and the many meanings of judicial independence, reading A Jury of Her Peers and "The Problem of Judgment" in Procedure, and discourses of judging in the European Union. There is no index. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)