F.B. Wickwire Memorial Lecture: The Challenge of Judicial Humanity – a Problem in Three Parts
This year’s 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 Alice Woolley, 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.
