SOURCE: A review of The Growth of the Law, in Political Science Quarterly, Vol. XL, No. 3, September, 1925, pp. 479-80.

In the following essay, Hart praises The Growth of the Law for both its readable style and its scholarly insight.

Judge Cardozo, of the New York Court of Appeals, has given us another book [The Growth of the Law] which fully comes up to the expectations of those who were fortunate enough to read his earlier lectures at Yale [The Nature of the Judicial Process]. Lucid in style, eclectic in philosophy, well balanced in point of view, this work is the contribution of a true scholar who sees the judicial process steadily and sees it whole. It carries further the analysis of the function of adjudication which the former volume so brilliantly began. Its phrases are pithy and shot through with imagination tempered by insight. There is a distinct...