Limits 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