Limits of legality the ethics of lawless judging - Brand-Ballard, Jeffrey (New York Oxford University Press, 2010)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-338) and index.
Keywords: Judicial ethics -- United States; Judicial corruption -- United States; Rule of law -- United States