Date: 2009
Type: Contribution to book
A sufficientist approach to reasonableness in legal decision-making and judicial review
Giorgio BONGIOVANNI, Giovanni SARTOR and Chiara VALENTINI (eds), Reasonableness and law, New York: Springer, 2009, Law and Philosophy Library, 86, pp. 17-68
SARTOR, Giovanni, A sufficientist approach to reasonableness in legal decision-making and judicial review, in Giorgio BONGIOVANNI, Giovanni SARTOR and Chiara VALENTINI (eds), Reasonableness and law, New York: Springer, 2009, Law and Philosophy Library, 86, pp. 17-68
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I shall argue for a sufficientist understanding of reasonableness in legal decision-making: cognitive or moral optimality are not required for reasonableness; what needed is just that a determination—be it epistemic or practical—is sufficiently good (acceptable, or at least not unacceptable). Correspondingly, judicial review on the ground of unreasonableness requires more than mere suboptimality: it requires failure to achieve the reasonableness threshold.
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/30407
Full-text via DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8500-0_2
ISBN: 9781402084997; 9781402085000
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