Good Judgment: Making Judicial Decisions
Awards:   Short-listed for Walter Owen Book Prize awarded by The Canadian Foundation for Legal Research 2019 (Canada)
Author:   Robert Sharpe
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
ISBN:  

9781487522438


Pages:   352
Publication Date:   21 August 2018
Format:   Paperback
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  • Short-listed for Walter Owen Book Prize awarded by The Canadian Foundation for Legal Research 2019 (Canada)

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Author:   Robert Sharpe
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.60cm
Weight:   0.520kg
ISBN:  

9781487522438


ISBN 10:   1487522436
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   21 August 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. A Judge’s Work 3. Is the Law Uncertain? 4. Do Judges Make Law? 5. Rules, Principles and Policies 6. Disciplined Judicial Decision-Making 7. Working with Precedent 8. Authority: What Counts? 9. Judicial Decision Making: A Case Study 10. Standard of Review and Discretion 11. Role of the Judge in a Constitutional Democracy 12. A Judicial State of Mind

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Good Judgment: Making Judicial Decisions, by the Canadian jurist and legal academic Robert J. Sharpe, represents a refreshing and deeply thoughtful departure from binary arguments about how and why judges make decisions. - U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel - Law 360, August 31, 2018


Good Judgment: Making Judicial Decisions, by the Canadian jurist and legal academic Robert J. Sharpe, represents a refreshing and deeply thoughtful departure from binary arguments about how and why judges make decisions. -- U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel * Law 360, August 31, 2018 *


Author Information

Robert J. Sharpe is judge of the Court of Appeal for Ontario. He taught at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto from 1976 to 1988 and served under Chief Justice Brian Dickson as Executive Legal Officer at the Supreme Court of Canada from 1988 to 1990.

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