F.B. Wickwire Memorial Lecture: The Challenge of Judicial Humanity 鈥� a Problem in Three Parts
This year鈥檚 F.B. Wickwire Memorial Lecture in Professional Responsibility and Legal Ethics will explore the relationship between a judge's ethical obligations and their humanity, focusing on three interrelated questions:
- Firstly, how do we articulate a normative account of the judicial role that incorporates the human element of judging?
- Secondly, how does a judge fulfil the ethical demands of the judicial role despite (or through) the contingent and messy reality of an ordinary human life?
- Thirdly, how do we distinguish between lapses from the judicial role that are ordinary human error and those properly treated as judicial misconduct?
The Honourable Justice , Court of Appeal of Alberta, will draw on both academic writings on positivist legal ethics and on her personal experience as a trial and appellate judge in this lecture.
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Location
Weldon Law Building, Room W105
6061 University Ave.
Cost
Free public event.