Why the Courts Don't Work

Authors

Richard Neely, West Virginia Supreme Court

A recording of this speech from the University of Georgia Law Library archival collection was digitally preserved from audio cassette tape to digital in 2023 and made publicly available in 2024. Digitization, metadata creation, and increased discoverability of this record was made possible thanks to a grant from the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council. The primary archival object is a digitized audio cassette recording of Neely's speech.

Event Date

2-17-1983

Abstract

Justice Richard Neely, former justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court and professor of economics at the University of Charleston, delivered the John A. Sibley Lecture "Why the Courts Don't Work" at the University of Georgia School of Law on February 17, 1983.

Justice Neely is author of the book, How Courts Govern America, which was published by Yale University Press in 1981. In his book he advances the idea that judicial review is a democratic, institutional compensation for the structural defects of the legislative branch and the bureaucratic self-dealing of the executive branch of government.

Repository Citation

Neely, Richard, "Why the Courts Don't Work" (1983). Sibley Lecture Series. 49.
https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/lectures_pre_arch_lectures_sibley/49