Judging as Judgment
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Joseph Singer - Judging as Judgment
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Free and open to the public. Registration is required.
Cosponsored by the Catholic Lawyers Guild of Chicago, the Decalogue Society of Lawyers, the Christian Legal Society, the Jewish Judges Association, and Jenner & Block LLP.
When a case is easy, judges can act like umpires. But when a case is hard, judges cannot simply apply the rules - they have to exercise judgment. We pretend that judges don’t make law in order to ensure that they are sufficiently responsive to social and political norms and to elected representatives. But contrary to popular belief, the rule of law does not require judges to refrain from judgment. What the rule of law requires is that judges give impartial reasons for their decisions. And judges can only do that if they attend carefully to the normative arguments on both sides of hard cases and give reasons that could or should be accepted by the losing side.
SCHEDULE
5:00pm Registration & Refreshments
5:30pm Welcome & Introduction
5:35pm "Judging as Judgment"
6:20pm Audience Q&A
6:30pm Reception
7:30pm End
