‘Hard times is a scalar description that can cover a wide range of states of affairs, from the erosion of “rule of law” legal and institutional settings to new challenges for the judiciary, such as the supranational practice of judging or political and social polarisation. This book offers detailed and insightful analysis of specific judicial virtues (judicial courage, lawfulness, empathy, independence, deliberative skills, fidelity), useful to face many of those risky situations. The exploration of these and other virtues is pioneering, accurate and well contextualized and proves how judicial virtues are important resources for the practice of law.’
– Isabel Trujillo, University of Palermo, Italy
Contents
1 Of hard times, virtue jurisprudence and judicial virtues 1
Tomasz Widłak
PART I THE NEED FOR JUDICIAL VIRTUE
2 The need for virtue in the judicial profession 23
Natasza Szutta
3 Virtue ethics and good judging 41
Hans Petter Graver
PART II VIRTUES FOR HARD TIMES
4 Judicial virtue in hard times 59
Lawrence B. Solum
5 Judicial virtues of independence 85
Tomasz Widłak
6 A developmental approach to judicial empathy 105
Mateusz Stępień
7 The virtues of disagreement and the perils of judicial deliberation 126
Amalia Amaya
PART III VIRTUES IN CONTEXT: EUROPEAN AND
NATIONAL COURTS
8 Thinking about ‘supranational good judging’ for the
ever-closer union among the peoples of Europe 149
Tomasz Tadeusz Koncewicz and Marcin Michalak
9 Internal legitimacy of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal 177
Jerzy Zajadło and Adrian Zaorski
10 Judging in the administrative courts 197
Leszek Leszczyński
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