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22Nussbaum's Capabilities Approach: In Need of a Moral Epistemology?Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy 38 (3): 186-201. 2009.Although Nussbaum’s “Capabilities Approach” clearly expresses a commitment to objectivity, this article argues that this commitment is rather ambiguous due to the conception of public reason it endorses. In particular, the CA cannot account for an objective justification of public reason, given certain characteristics of public reason. As a result, the CA jeopardizes the substantive aim it has set itself: to provide an objective justification for public choices regarding human capabilities and t…Read more
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19The perceptive judgeJurisprudence 9 (1): 71-87. 2018.ABSTRACTThis article puts judicial perception at the centre of adjudication and of what makes a judge a good judge. It offers a philosophical and empiricist account of judicial perception. Judicial perception is presented as a special ethical, character-dependent skill that a judge needs in order to adequately attend and respond to the cases he is confronted with. In this account ‘thick concepts’ play a vital role. Throughout the text Ian McEwan’s novel The Children Act is used as an illustrativ…Read more
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19Law’s regret: on moral remainders, (in)commensurability and a virtue-ethical approach to legal decision-makingJurisprudence 13 (2): 220-239. 2022.In his essay ‘Ethical Consistency’, Bernard Williams famously introduced the concept of a moral remainder, which points to the phenomenon of an in itself defensible decision that may nonetheless re...
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18Moral Quality in Adjudication: On Judicial Virtues and Civic FriendshipNetherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy 44 (1): 24-46. 2015.
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11Rechterlijke onafhankelijkheid in het samenspel van constitutionele beginselenNetherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy 49 (2): 133-142. 2020.
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7The case of David vs. Goliath. On legal ethics and corporate lawyering in large-scale liability casesLegal Ethics 26 (1): 74-96. 2023.A classic avenue that victims can take to hold a corporation to account and obtain redress for the harms they have suffered is civil litigation. In the past decades, such attempts have been pursued against corporations in the tobacco industry, the pharmaceutical industry, the asbestos industry or industries working with asbestos and, more recently, the extractive industries. However, it is notoriously difficult for victims whose rights have been violated by corporations to obtain effective redre…Read more
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1Inquiry and Imagination in AdjudicationNetherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy 51 (2): 187-198. 2022.
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All the judges on the couch? On Iris Murdoch and legal decision-makingIn Amalia Amaya & Maksymilian Del Mar (eds.), Virtue, Emotion and Imagination in Law and Legal Reasoning, Hart Publishing. 2020.
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The fragility of legal ethics : on the role of theory, lawyerly virtues, and moral remainders in the life of a good lawyerIn Julian S. Webb (ed.), Leading works in legal ethics, Routledge. 2023.
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