TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vito Breda
PY  - 2016
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2199-028X
SN  - 9783631702116
TI  - The Objectivity of Judicial Decisions
T2  - A Comparative Analysis of Nine Jurisdictions
DO  - 10.3726/b10610
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1054839
N2  - 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.
KW  - Jurisprudence, Legal Positivism, Legal Semiotic, Legal Reasoning, Judicial Bias, Justice
LA  - English
ER  -