Washington Law Review
Abstract
That courts must and do make law is a proposition which no longer admits of debate. What remains debatable, however, is whether they choose the proper subjects and occasions for exercising their lawmaking powers as well as whether the products which they fashion are the best or most suitable for governing the affairs to which they will apply. Logically these questions involve separable issues, although there is a noticeable tendency on the part of some commentators to refer to the products of which they disapprove as judicial legislation and to those of which they approve as fine examples of common law sensitivity to the needs of the times. It is with this understanding and caution that the following analysis of two recent creative decisions of state courts in the field of labor law is offered.
First Page
743
Recommended Citation
Cornelius J. Peck,
Judicial Creativity and State Labor Law,
40 Wash. L. Rev.
743
(1965).
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