Judicial Character in Hard Times

Edited by Tomasz Widłak, Associate Professor of Law, Department of Theory and Philosophy of State and Law, Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Gdańsk, Poland

Contents
1 Of hard times, virtue jurisprudence and judicial virtues 1
Tomasz Widłak
PART I THE NEED FOR JUDICIAL VIRTUE
2 The need for virtue in the judicial profession 23
Natasza Szutta
3 Virtue ethics and good judging 41
Hans Petter Graver
PART II VIRTUES FOR HARD TIMES
4 Judicial virtue in hard times 59
Lawrence B. Solum
5 Judicial virtues of independence 85
Tomasz Widłak
6 A developmental approach to judicial empathy 105
Mateusz Stępień
7 The virtues of disagreement and the perils of judicial deliberation 126
Amalia Amaya
PART III VIRTUES IN CONTEXT: EUROPEAN AND
NATIONAL COURTS
8 Thinking about ‘supranational good judging’ for the
ever-closer union among the peoples of Europe 149
Tomasz Tadeusz Koncewicz and Marcin Michalak
9 Internal legitimacy of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal 177
Jerzy Zajadło and Adrian Zaorski
10 Judging in the administrative courts 197
Leszek Leszczyński