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Section 23
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XXIII. Conclusion

Samantha Bates,
Jonathan Zittrain

In our concluding day, we revisit the role of the common law judiciary through a non-common-law case: that of a Constitutional review of a criminal sentence. To what extent if at all should judges bring their own views to their work, versus simply implementing and executing the law as they understand it to be?

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