El artículo del NYT de hoy: As a Professor, Obama held Pragmatic Views on Court, describe a Obama como un pragmático en cuanto a su visión del Derecho y a su preferencia de metodología adjudicativa se refiere. Buena discusión a seguir en ocasión de la discusión de las posibles alternativas que tiene para nominación al Tribunal Supremo.
"Former students and colleagues describe Mr. Obama as a minimalist (skeptical of court-led efforts at social change) and a structuralist (interested in how the law metes out power in society)... (h)e (Obama) is a pragmatist who urged those around him to be more keenly attuned to the real-life impact of decisions. This may be his distinguishing quality as a legal thinker: an unwillingness to deal in abstraction, a constant desire to know how court decisions affect people’s lives".