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Limits of legality : the ethics of lawless judging / Jeffrey Brand-Ballard.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2010Description: ix, 354 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0195342291
  • 9780195342291
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 174.3 22
LOC classification:
  • KF8779 .B73 2010
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.
Review: ""This is the most careful, systematic, exhaustive discussion of the topic I have seen. The author takes great pains never to overstate his claims and the strength of his arguments for them. And I cannot think of a topic or issue the author failed to discuss in safficient detail""--BOOK JACKET.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 174.3 BRA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A517109B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-338) and index.

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.

""This is the most careful, systematic, exhaustive discussion of the topic I have seen. The author takes great pains never to overstate his claims and the strength of his arguments for them. And I cannot think of a topic or issue the author failed to discuss in safficient detail""--BOOK JACKET.

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