Common law judging : subjectivity, impartiality, and the making of law /

Are judges supposed to be objective? Citizens, scholars, and legal professionals commonly assume that subjectivity and objectivity are opposites, with the corollary that subjectivity is a vice and objectivity is a virtue. These assumptions underlie passionate debates over adherence to original inten...

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Main Author: Edlin, Douglas E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Subjectivity, objectivity, impartiality
  • Subjectivity and intersubjectivity
  • Making law
  • Judicial individualism and judicial independence
  • Conclusion