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The judge is under pressure when the legislator attacks the law. Should the judge enforce laws that intentionally and incessantly violate basic rights of individuals, deprive them of due process and the protection of the law, and submit them to draconic and disproportionate punishments? Should he contribute to turning the law into a systematic instrument of persecution on racial, political, or other grounds?
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Notes
- 1.
The Justice Case (1951), p. 1156.
- 2.
Milgram (1974), p. 167.
- 3.
See Halliday et al. (2007), pp. 32–33.
- 4.
For a brilliant analysis of the reasoning of South African judges under apartheid with the aim of testing positions in legal theory on authoritarianism and law, see Dyzenhaus (2010).
- 5.
See Berman (1983), p. 43.
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Muller (2012).
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Abel (2007), pp. 392–398.
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See Korando (2012).
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Graver, H.P. (2015). The Judicial Role and the Rule of Law. In: Judges Against Justice. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44293-7_1
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