SOURCE: A review of The Paradoxes of Legal Science, in American Political Science Review, Vol. XXIII, No. 1, February, 1929, pp. 200-2.

In the following essay on The Paradoxes of Legal Science, Dickinson explores Cardozo's theory that the goal of the judicial process is to reconcile opposing considerations, particularly stability and progress.

It may be not too much to predict that as the account now stands the chief American contributions to literature and the progress of human thought will prove to have been made in the field of jurisprudence. The writings of Holmes, Cardozo, and Pound have presented the results of a deeper probing into the operation of the legal system than had been before attempted by men bred to the common law, and have presented those results in most instances with a vividness and rare literary charm which are usually alien to the field of abstract speculation. Mr. Chief...