SCOTUS Justice Breyer On Rule of Law, Globalization and an “Unusual Position”

Want to know what a judge thinks? Go find out who his or her teachers were, said Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer while speaking at a law conference in midtown Manhattan on Thursday.

Breyer explained that when he looks at case law, he searches for the root purpose of why a judge wrote something.

“There is someone in the world who wrote those words at one time,” he said. “Why? There is always a purpose.”

That kernel was but one of a handful of insightful and humorous quips that Breyer delivered at the Association of American Law Schools annual conference ...