The Real Laws of the Constitution

Authors

  • Dale Gibson

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29173/alr1607

Abstract

Legal doctrine alone is rarely determinative of the outcome in constitutional adjudication. Recalling the hypotheses of the legal realist movement, the author some of the non-doctrinal factors that may be at work in judicial decision-making. The author calls for greater judicial frankness when invoking such non- doctrinal factors and for assistance from the academic community in order to help identify those factors. In the result, it is hoped that those factors which judges are ill- equipped to consider be isolated and, if need be, reposed in other, more suitable, bodies by the legislatures.

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Published

1990-02-01

Issue

Vol 28, No 2: Centre for Constitutional Studies

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