TitleLimits of legality : the ethics of lawless judging / Jeffrey Brand-Ballard
Imprint New York : Oxford University Press, 2011
Descript ix, 354 p. ; 25 cm

CONTENT

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


SUBJECT

  1. Judicial ethics -- United States
  2. Judicial corruption -- United States
  3. Rule of law -- United States

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Law Library (3rd Floor)K/US.087 B73l 2011 CHECK SHELVES