TY - BOOK AU - Brand-Ballard,Jeffrey TI - Limits of legality : the ethics of lawless judging SN - 9780195342291 AV - KF8779 .B73 2010 U1 - 174.3 22 PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Judicial ethics KW - United States KW - Judicial corruption KW - Rule of law N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-338) and index; 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 ER -