Judicial Function

Joe McIntyre is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia. He undertook his doctoral research at the University of Cambridge, and has held academic posts in the UK, Canada and Australia. His research focuses on the critical and comparative study of courts, both in the exposition of primary concepts and the application of those concepts in concrete situations. This applied research covers such diverse areas as civil procedure reform, the operation of international tribunals, public law limits on the operation of courts, the digitisation of courts, and the empirical analysis of judicial decision-making.​

• Part 1: Introduction.- Part 2: The Nature of the Judicial Function.- Part 3: The Judicial Decision-Making Method.- Part 4: Judicial Impartiality, Deviations and Threats to Judicial Method.- Part 5: Judicial Integrity and Accountability.- Part 6: Conclusions – The Idea of the Court.