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Limits of legality the ethics of lawless judging

Title: Limits of legality [electronic resource] : the ethics of lawless judging / Jeffrey Brand-Ballard.
Author: Brand-Ballard, Jeffrey.
Publication: Oxford ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2010.

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1 online resource (ix, 354 p.)

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Limits of legality (Online)

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Limits of legality (Online)

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-338) and index.

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Contents

Introduction -- Practical reasons and judicial use of force -- Deviating from legal standards -- The legal duties of judges -- The normative classification of legal results -- Reasons to deviate -- Adherence rules -- Obeying adherence rules -- The judicial oath -- Legal duty and political obligation -- Systemic effects -- Agent-relative principles -- Optimal adherence rules -- Guidance rules -- Treating like cases alike -- Implementation -- Theoretical implications -- Conclusion.

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