Limits of legality : the ethics of lawless judging /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Brand-Ballard, Jeffrey
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2010
Subjects:	Judicial ethics > United States Judicial corruption > United States Rule of law > United States
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Table of Contents:

Introduction
Practical reasons and judicial use of force
Deviating from legal standards
The legal duties of judges
The normative classification of legal results
Reasons to deviate
Adherence rules
Obeying adherence rules
The judicial oath
Legal duty and political obligation
Systemic effects
Agent-relative principles
Optimal adherence rules
Guidance rules
Treating like cases alike
Implementation
Theoretical implications
Conclusion