Contents
Acknowledgments
Wise Latinas and Judicial Identity
Objective Laws and Subjective Judges
Common Law Judges
Common Law Objectivity
Legal Judgment and Legal Truth
Impartiality, Intersubjectivity, and the Art of Judging
2. Subjectivity, Objectivity, Impartiality
Impartiality
Objectivity
Trials and Truths
Legal Sources and Valid Judgments
Judgment and Justification
Value Judgments and Legal Judgments
The Judge in the Judgment
3. Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity
Judgment
Communication
Community
Disinterestedness
Judging Art and Law
Legislating from the Bench
Changing Law
Weintraub v. Krobatsch: The Duty to Disclose
Browning v. Slenderella Systems of Seattle: Discrimination in Public Accommodations
R. v. R.: The Marital Rape Exemption
Law in the Making
5. Judicial Individualism and Judicial Independence
Individual and Institutional Independence
Decisional Autonomy and Judicial Independence
Decisional Integrity and Judicial Independence
The Ideal Judge?
The Subject and Object of Judging: Affirmative Action in Life and Law
Reading Judges and Reading Judgments
Common Law Judgment
Table of Authorities
Notes
References
Index of Subjects
Index of Names