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This book discusses how judges qualify their activities as objective. The data for this project was retrieved from a large sample of cases using Langacker´s methodology. The sample included over a thousand decisions from Brazil, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Romania and the UK.

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This book discusses how judges qualify their activities as objective. The data for this project was retrieved from a large sample of cases using Langacker´s methodology. The sample included over a thousand decisions from Brazil, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Romania and the UK. The decisions considered allegations of judicial bias, unfairness, and injustice. Pre-judices are shared cognitive methods that legal practitioners perceive as necessary. The results of the study directly confirm Pierre Legrand´s claims of pre-judices in legal discourse, and as corollary, Jules L. Coleman and Brian Leiter´s idea of modest objectivity in law.

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Judicial Impartiality in European Legal Systems - Judicial bias - Truth as a qualifier of judicial objectivity and judicial verophobia - Objective textual interpretation - Objectified judicial discretion - Objectivity as fairness.

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Vito Breda is the Research Leader of the Comparative Law Group at the School of Law of the University of Southern Queensland. He held a tenure position in Cardiff and renewed visiting chairs at the University of Deusto. His research interests include European Law and Comparative Law.

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