POLS 3130 Lecture Notes - Blood Sugar
13 Apr 2014
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I think it"s time we broke for lunch . Court rulings depend partly on when the judge last had a snack. Apr 14th 2011 | from the print edition. Around the world, courthouses are adorned with a statue of a blindfolded woman holding a set of scales and a sword: justice personified. Her sword stands for the power of the court, her scales for the competing claims of the petitioners. The blindfold (a 15th-century innovation) represents the principle that justice should be blind. The law should be applied without fear or favour, with only cold reason and the facts of the case determining what happens to the accused. Lawyers, though, have long suspected that such lofty ideals are not always achieved in practice, even in well run judicial systems free from political meddling. Justice, say the cynics, is what the judge had for breakfast. A paper in the proceedings of the national academy of sciences describes how shai.
