Good Judgment
Title | Good Judgment PDF eBook |
Author | Robert J. Sharpe |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 351 |
Release | 2018-10-11 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1487517009 |
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.
The Weekly Notes
Title | The Weekly Notes PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick Pollock |
Publisher | |
Pages | 618 |
Release | 1906 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN |
Weekly Notes of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the County Courts of Philadelphia, and the United States District and Circuit Courts for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Title | Weekly Notes of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the County Courts of Philadelphia, and the United States District and Circuit Courts for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 628 |
Release | 1884 |
Genre | Law reports, digests, etc |
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Reports, Notes of Cases & Proceedings and Judgments in Appeals, Etc., and References Under Rules, Orders & Ordinances Relating to the Gold Coast Colony, and the Colony of Nigeria, from 1861 to 1914
Title | Reports, Notes of Cases & Proceedings and Judgments in Appeals, Etc., and References Under Rules, Orders & Ordinances Relating to the Gold Coast Colony, and the Colony of Nigeria, from 1861 to 1914 PDF eBook |
Author | Gold Coast. Courts |
Publisher | |
Pages | 872 |
Release | 1915 |
Genre | Law reports, digests, etc |
ISBN |
An Analysis of Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman's Judgment under Uncertainty
Title | An Analysis of Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman's Judgment under Uncertainty PDF eBook |
Author | Camille Morvan |
Publisher | CRC Press |
Pages | 126 |
Release | 2017-07-05 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1351352393 |
Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman’s 1974 paper ‘Judgement Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases’ is a landmark in the history of psychology. Though a mere seven pages long, it has helped reshape the study of human rationality, and had a particular impact on economics – where Tversky and Kahneman’s work helped shape the entirely new sub discipline of ‘behavioral economics.’ The paper investigates human decision-making, specifically what human brains tend to do when we are forced to deal with uncertainty or complexity. Based on experiments carried out with volunteers, Tversky and Kahneman discovered that humans make predictable errors of judgement when forced to deal with ambiguous evidence or make challenging decisions. These errors stem from ‘heuristics’ and ‘biases’ – mental shortcuts and assumptions that allow us to make swift, automatic decisions, often usefully and correctly, but occasionally to our detriment. The paper’s huge influence is due in no small part to its masterful use of high-level interpretative and analytical skills – expressed in Tversky and Kahneman’s concise and clear definitions of the basic heuristics and biases they discovered. Still providing the foundations of new work in the field 40 years later, the two psychologists’ definitions are a model of how good interpretation underpins incisive critical thinking.
"J" is for Judgment
Title | "J" is for Judgment PDF eBook |
Author | Sue Grafton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | California |
ISBN | 0449221482 |
While investigating the reappearance of the long-presumed-dead Wendell Jaffe, Kinsey Millhone uncovers some unpleasant truths about her own family in the process. By the author of "G is for Gumshoe."
The Ontario weekly notes
Title | The Ontario weekly notes PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 566 |
Release | 1920 |
Genre | |
ISBN |