%0 Book
%A Vito Breda
%D 2016
%C Berlin, Germany
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 2199-028X
%@ 9783631702116
%T The Objectivity of Judicial Decisions
%B A Comparative Analysis of Nine Jurisdictions
%R 10.3726/b10610
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1054839
%X 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.
%K Jurisprudence, Legal Positivism, Legal Semiotic, Legal Reasoning, Judicial Bias, Justice
%G English