TY - BOOK AU - Edlin,Douglas E. ED - Project Muse. TI - Common Law Judging : : Subjectivity, Impartiality, and the Making of Law / SN - 9780472122158 PY - 2016///] CY - Ann Arbor PB - University of Michigan Press KW - Judicial process KW - fast KW - Common law KW - Political Science / American Government / Judicial Branch KW - bisacsh KW - Processus judiciaire KW - Anglophonie KW - English-speaking countries KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Introduction -- Subjectivity, objectivity, impartiality -- Subjectivity and intersubjectivity -- Making law -- Judicial individualism and judicial independence -- Conclusion; Open Access N2 - Are judges supposed to be objective? Citizens, scholars, and legal professionals commonly assume that subjectivity and objectivity are opposites, with the corollary that subjectivity is a vice and objectivity is a virtue. These assumptions underlie passionate debates over adherence to original intent and judicial activism. Douglas Edlin challenges these widely held assumptions by reorienting the entire discussion. Rather than analyze judging in terms of objectivity and truth, he argues that we should instead approach the role of a judge's individual perspective in terms of intersubjectivity and validity. Drawing upon Kantian aesthetic theory as well as case law, legal theory, and constitutional theory, Edlin develops a new conceptual framework for the respective roles of the individual judge and of the judiciary as an institution, as well as the relationship between them, as integral parts of the broader legal and political community UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/47544/ ER -