The Objectivity of Judicial Decisions

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.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

Judicial Impartiality in European Legal Systems Judicial bias Truth as a qualifier of judicial objectivity and judicial verophobia Objective textual interpretation Objectified judicial discretion Objectivity as fairness.