POLS 303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ripeness, Expert Witness, Judicial Notice
12 Oct 2012
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October 2, 2012 (lecture 5: courts, judging, etc. ) If you have a dispute, you generally go to court. There are several difficulties in attempting to understand what courts and how they do it. First, not all judges view their roles in the same way. Some judges see their role it as defending the status quo. Some judges believe that their role is to create or advance the law (activism) while others see it as merely interpreting existing (restraint) law. Objectives and procedures of judging: o o o. Adjudicative model: o o o o o o o. Four components of the judicial process are predicated on the idea that simply resolve disputes. Judges do not solve larger societal problems, underlying problems or make new policy. Judges should not adjudicate disputes that are hypothetical no longer exist, involves non- legal questions. Access to courts should be limited because disputes should only be limited to two people.
