The Objectivity of Judicial Decisions

Vito Breda

ISBN 10: 3631675909 / ISBN 13: 9783631675908

Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Nov 2016, 2016

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Neuware -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. 136 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Objectivity of Judicial Decisions
• Publisher: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Nov 2016
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3631675909
• ISBN 13: 9783631675908
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 216W x 153H x 13D millimeters 216 millimeters width by 153 millimeters height by 13 millimeters depth
• Weight: 298 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Vito Breda is the Research Leader of the Comparative Law Group at the School of Law of the University of Southern Queensland. He held a tenure position in Cardiff and renewed visiting chairs at the University of Deusto. His research interests include European Law and Comparative Law.