Judicial Discretion in the House of Lords

This book concentrates on the arguments the Lords use in justifying their decisions, and is concerned as much with the legal methodology as with the substance of their decisions. Although close attention is paid to the different approaches and styles of judicial argument, the book is not restricted to this traditional analytic approach. One chapter applies the statistical techniques Americans call "jurimetrics" and have successfully used on the US Supreme Court.

David Robertson is a fellow and tutor of politics at St Hugh's College, Oxford. He has previously taught in the Institute for East-West Security Studies, New York; the School of Advanced International Studies, Washington DC; and the European University Institute, Florence, amongst others.