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Understanding judicial discretion

open access: yesLaw and Philosophy, 1982
The main aim of this paper is to clarify the dispute over judicial discretion by distinguishing the different senses in which claims about judicial discretion can be understood and by examining the arguments for these various interpretations. Three different levels of dispute need to be recognized. The first concerns whether judges actually do exercise
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Hartʼs judicial discretion revisited [PDF]

open access: yesRevus, 2023
The Harvard Law Review recently, for the first time, published Hart’s essay titled “Discretion”. It is a carefully arranged version of the lecture which he gave at Harvard in 1956. This essay fills significant gap in Hart's work concerning judicial reasoning. In my paper attention is devoted to his conception of judicial discretion, its two main types (
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On the limits of judicial discretion

Scientific works "Adilet", 2022
In the article, the author draws attention to some proposals presented in the project to reform the judicial system. Particular attention is paid to the proposal to provide judges with the opportunity to make decisions based on the principles of law. It is noted that this does not take into account the provisions of the Civil Code of the Republic of ...
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Restoring Judicial Discretion

Federal Sentencing Reporter, 1993
As an 18 year veteran of the Federal Probation System I have personally experienced the changes caused by implementation of the guidelines. I was sworn-in as Chief Probation Officer for the District of Connecticut in late June 1987 and attended a national conference for CPOs two days later. It became clear to me within a few hours that my primary focus
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The Concept of Judicial Discretion

2001
The debate on judicial discretion and its limits gained considerable attention from legal theorists in the 1930’s. One of the reasons accounting for this increase in interest was the loss of influence of certain maxims of theoretical positivism as a way of describing the structural characteristics of legal orders1.
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Judicial Discretion

The Journal of Legal Studies, 1980
Higgins, Richard S., Rubin, Paul H.
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