How Judges Reason: The Logic of Adjudication

Joel Levin

How Judges Reason: The Logic of Adjudication
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country
United States
Published
1 July 1992
Pages
267
ISBN
9780820415499

How Judges Reason: The Logic of Adjudication

Joel Levin

Legal rules ought to work themselves out, with unique or difficult cases becoming fewer, and the inconsistencies in the system disappearing as they are confronted. Instead, legal doctrine and the role of judges has become more difficult and often more controversial. This book offers a general explanation why, and in so doing, analyzes how individuals reason when they behave as judges. Drawing on ideas from philosophical logic, game theory, philosophy of mind, truth theory, and jurisprudence, the author develops a theory of judicial pluralism which suggests that judicial truth is individually objective but societally personal, pluralistic and idiosyncratic.

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