The Persistent Cultural Script of Judicial Dispassion
The Persistent Cultural Script of Judicial Dispassion
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司法冷静的持久文化脚本
DOI：
10.15779/z38k98m
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发表时间：
2010
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
T. Maroney
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作者：
T. Maroney
在当代西方法学中，情感--愤怒、爱、恨、悲伤、厌恶、恐惧、喜悦--从来都不适宜影响司法决策。一个好的法官不应该有感情;如果她有感情，她会把它放在一边。称法官情绪化是一种刺痛的侮辱，意味着纪律、公正和理性的失败。坚持司法公正是一种不同寻常的长寿和效力的文化脚本。但是，这一剧本不仅在人性上是错误的--事实上，情感并不总是倾向于草率、偏见和非理性--而且它也不像看起来那么铁板一块。法律的理论家（和法官自己）有时会断言，司法情感是不可避免的，也许是受欢迎的。但这些不同意见既没有削弱剧本的力量，也没有发展成一个关于情感如何与司法决策共存甚至有助于司法决策的强大理论。对这段隐藏的思想史的仔细考察揭示了原因。学者和法官一直在情感的本质和价值的基础问题上跌跌撞撞。幸运的是，历史揭示了治疗方法和原因。我们可以通过有纪律的方式向前迈进，持续诉诸一种新的充满活力的情感认识论，这一项目将为司法情感的故事创造一个独特的空间。
In contemporary Western jurisprudence it is never appropriate for emotion - anger, love, hatred, sadness, disgust, fear, joy - to affect judicial decision-making. A good judge should feel no emotion; if she does, she puts it aside. To call a judge emotional is a stinging insult, signifying a failure of discipline, impartiality, and reason. Insistence on judicial dispassion is a cultural script of unusual longevity and potency. But not only is the script wrong as a matter of human nature - emotion does not, in fact, invariably tend toward sloppiness, bias, and irrationality - but it is not quite so monolithic as it appears. Legal theorists (and judges themselves) sometimes have asserted that judicial emotion is inevitable and, perhaps, to be welcomed. But these dissents have neither eroded the script’s power nor blossomed into a robust theory of how emotion might co-exist with, or even contribute to, judicial decision-making. Close examination of this hidden intellectual history reveals why. Scholars and judges consistently have stumbled over foundational questions of emotion’s nature and value. Fortunately, the history reveals cures as well as causes. We can move forward by way of disciplined, sustained recourse to a newly vibrant emotional epistemology, a project that will create a distinct space for the story of judicial emotion.