The objectivity of judicial decisions
a comparative analysis of nine jurisdictions
- ISBN: 9783631675908
- Editorial: Peter Lang
- Fecha de la edición: 2017
- Lugar de la edición: Bruxelles. Bélgica
- Colección: Studies in Politics, Security and Society
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 21 cm
- Nº Pág.: 129
- Idiomas: Inglés
This book discusses how judges qualify their activities as objective. The data for this project was retrieved from a large sample of cases using Langacker’s methodology. The sample included over a thousand decisions from Brazil, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Romania and the UK. The decisions considered allegations of judicial bias, unfairness, and injustice. Pre-judices are shared cognitive methods that legal practitioners perceive as necessary. The results of the study directly confirm Pierre Legrand’s claims of pre-judices in legal discourse, and as corollary, Jules L. Coleman and Brian Leiter’s idea of modest objectivity in law.