The Judicial Process Revisited: A Symposium – Introduction

Abstract

BENJAMIN N. CARDOZO, cheif Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, Justice of the United States Supreme Court, author of the four lectures entitled The Nature of the Judicial Process that were delivered at Yale, was a man of such beauty of countenance, such personal charm, and such keenness of mind, that to write of him now creates again the poignant joy that he brought to his friends and listeners at Yale more than forty years ago. His smile could melt one's heart to tears, his modesty and quickness of understanding roused instant confidence, and the beauty of his language, written and spoken, made it the perfect expression of his thought.