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Good Judgment, based upon the author's experience as a lawyer, law professor, and judge, explores the role of the judge and the art of judging. Engaging with the American, English, and Commonwealth literature on the role of the judge in the common law tradition, Good Judgment addresses the following questions: What exactly do judges do? What is properly within their role and what falls outside? How do judges approach their decision-making task? In an attempt to explain and reconcile two fundamental features of judging, namely judicial choice and judicial discipline, this book explores the nature and extent of judicial choice in the common law legal tradition and the structural features of that tradition that control and constrain that element of choice. As Sharpe explains, the law does not always provide clear answers, and judges are often left with difficult choices to make, but the power of judicial choice is disciplined and constrained and judges are not free to decide cases according to their own personal sense of justice. Although Good Judgment is accessibly written to appeal to the non-specialist reader with an interest in the judicial process, it also tackles fundamental issues about the nature of law and the role of the judge and will be of particular interest to lawyers, judges, law students, and legal academics.
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From the perspective of prominent positions in both moral philosophy and legal scholarship, tort law can seem baffling: people are made to pay damages when they are barely or not at fault, yet some serious harms go uncompensated. Many of these puzzles grow out of the assumption that the law's concern must either be to compensate losses or penalize misconduct. In private wrongs, Arthur Ripstein provides a philosophical and systematic account of the rights protected by tort law. The law of tort protects what people already have: their person, understood as bodily integrity and reputation, and property. Ripstein articulates the form of these rights, and provides a simple but compelling explanation of the sense in which the point of damages is to make it as if the wrong had never happened. He explains why this matters even though damages are at best an imperfect substitute and why enforcing private rights is consistent with the other activities of a liberal state without being reducible to them.--Publisher's information.
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By drawing on a range of theoretical traditions emerging from feminism, criminology, and sociology, Women and Gendered Violence in Canadasignificantly expands the conversation on violence against women.
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'Rights, Wrongs, and Injustices' is a comprehensive account of the scope, foundations, and structure of remedial law in common law jurisdictions. The rules governing the kinds of complaints that common law courts will accept are generally well understood. However, the rules governing when and how they respond to such complaints are not. The text provides that understanding. It argues that remedies are judicial rulings, and that remedial law is the law governing their availability and content.
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"Les personnes sont au coeur du droit. Les personnes physiques, tout d'abord. À la personnalité qui leur est reconnue s'attache un cortège de prérogatives garantes du respect de leur intégrité, de leur vie privée, de leur pensée... Nom, domicile, actes de l'état civil contribuent à donner force à l'impératif d'identification de la personne. Identifier, toutefois, ne suffit pas. Il faut aussi protéger, non seulement contre toute atteinte illicite à l'intégrité de la personne, mais aussi contre les faiblesses que peuvent induire l'âge, la maladie... Quant aux personnes morales, leur diversité est extrême. Leur poids dans la vie économique et sociale justifie un examen attentif des règles qui gouvernent leur constitution, leur fonctionnement, leur dissolution... Le tout est constamment éclairé par la présentation de documents : extraits de textes législatifs ou réglementaires, circulaires, décisions de justice, données statistiques, etc." --Cover page 4
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