Objectivity of Judicial Decisions
Subtitle: A Comparative Analysis of Nine Jurisdictions
Publisher: Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9783631702116
Description: 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.