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Books and websites for judges
Wed, 2007-01-03 22:16 — Admin1
Books
Canadian
General
o Berry, E., Writing Reasons: A Handbook for Judges, 3rd ed. (Peterborough: Emond Montgomery, 2007)
o Bouck, J., Exploding the Myths: An Insiders Look at Canada's Justice Systems (Edmonton: Juriliber, 2006)
o Code of Judicial Ethics (Vancouver: Provincial Court of British Columbia, Revised in 1994)
o Dickson, B., Judicial Activism in Common Law Supreme Courts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)
o Dodek & Sossin, Judicial Independence in Context (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2010)
o Epstein, L., et al., The Behavior of Federal Judges: A Theoretical Empirical Study of Rational Choice (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2013)
o * Ethical Principles for Judges (Ottawa: Canadian Judicial Council, 2004) (Available online – see above)
o Friedland, M., A Place Apart: Judicial Independence and Accountability in Canada, (Ottawa: Canadian Judicial Council, 1995)
o Halsbury’s laws of Canada, Judges and courts (Markham: LexisNexis, 2010)
o Komar, R., Reasons for Judgment: A Handbook for Judges and Other Judicial Officers (Toronto: Butterworths, 1980)
o MacFarlane, E., Governing from the Bench: The Supreme Court of Canada and the Judicial Role (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2013)
o Mailhot & Carnwath, Decisions, Decisions: A Handbook for Judicial Writing, (Cowansville: Yvon Blais, 1998)
o Malleson & Russell, Appointing Judges in an Age of Judicial Power: Critical Perspectives From Around the World (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006)
o Marshall, T., Judicial Conduct and Accountability (Toronto: Carswell, 1995)
o McCormick, P., Judicial independence and judicial governance in the provincial courts (Canadian Association of Provincial Court Judges, 2004) (Available online – see below)
o Raymond, J., Writing For the Court (Toronto: Carswell, 2010)
o Setting Judicial Compensation: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Law Commission of Canada, 1999)
o Smith, B., Professional conduct for lawyers and judges, 3rd ed. (Fredericton: Maritime Law Book, looseleaf)
o Wilson, Hon. J.O., A Book for Judges, (Ottawa: Canadian Judicial Council: 1980)
Biographies
o Gruending, D., Emmett Hall: Establishment Radical (Markham: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2005)
English
o Brand-Ballard, J., Limits of legality: the ethics of lawless judging (Oxford University Press, 2010)
o Connolly, A., Cultural difference on trial: the nature and limits of judicial understanding (Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate Pub., 2010)
o Dickson, B., Judicial activism in common law supreme courts (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007)
o Terris, Romano & Swigart, The International Judge: An Introduction to the Men and Women Who Decide the World’s Cases (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)
American
o American Bar Association's Model Code of Judicial Conduct (1990)
o Flamm, R., Judicial disqualification: recusal and disqualification of judges, 2nd ed. (Berkeley, Calif. : Banks and Jordan Law Pub., 2007)
o George, J., Judicial Opinion Writing Handbook, 5th ed. (Buffalo, N.Y.: William S. Hein, 2007)
o Mayer, M., The judges: a penetrating exploration of American courts and of the new decisions, hard decisions, they must make for a new millennium, 1st ed. (New York: Truman Talley Books/St. Martin's Press, 2007)
o Posner, R., How judges think (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008)
o Shaman et al., Judicial Conduct and Ethics, 2nd ed. (Virginia: Mitchie, 1995)
o Toobin, J., The nine: inside the secret world of the Supreme Court (New York: Doubleday, 2007)
o White, G., The American judicial tradition: profiles of leading American judges, 3rd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)
Other countries
o Stockley & Rowe, Canadian judgment: the lectures of Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin in New Zealand, April 2003 (Christchurch: The Centre for Commercial & Corporate Law, 2004)
Blogs
Canadian
John Bouck: http://bouckslawblog.typepad.com/
American
Gary Becker and Richard Posner: http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/
Jerry Buchmeyer: http://www.texasbar.com/saywhat/weblog/index.html
Other countries
Judge Stein Schjolberg: http://www.cybercrimelaw.net/
Websites
Canadian Judicial Council
The Canadian Superior Courts Judges Association
Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs
Canadian Judges' Forum - Canadian Bar Association
Judicial Compensation and Benefits Commission
Office of the Judge Advocate General for the Canadian Forces
McCormick, P., Judicial independence and judicial governance in the provincial courts (Canadian Association of Provincial Court Judges, 2004)
Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial affairs
International Judicial Monitor
