Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2005
Publication Information
70 Missouri Law Review 433 (2005)
Abstract
In this article, the author argues that it is only possible to determine whether judges are likely to be good judges if we understand the practice of judging and the telos of justice toward which its aims, and that elections cannot help voters determine what qualities are necessary in judges and for what reasons. Moreover, I argue that traditional elections require virtues in politicians which are not often found in good (virtuous) judges, making them an unsuitable way of selecting candidates.
Repository Citation
Failinger, Marie, "Can Good Judges Be Good Politician? Judicial Elections from a Virtue Ethics Approach" (2005). Faculty Scholarship. 349.
https://open.mitchellhamline.edu/facsch/349