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Should Judges Be Empathic? The Place of Judges’ Empathy in Therapeutic Jurisprudence

Katarzyna Rużyczka

Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland

English abstract: Therapeutic jurisprudence (TJ) has had a influence on the judiciary and legal practice given the emergence of special courts, the so-called problem-solving courts. As understood by David B. Wexler, TJ is an approach that combines experience from many scientific fields, constituting an interdisciplinary field of research that focuses on the therapeutic and antitherapeutic consequences of laws, legal procedures, and the roles and behaviours of legal actors such as lawyers and judges. The role that they play during a trial is particularly emphasized
in this theory in the context of causing both positive and negative consequences for those participating in the trial. The first purpose of this paper is to reconstruct the understanding of empathy and its role in the therapeutic jurisprudence, and to show how the concept of empathy is understood in the context of a judge’s work, particularly in relation to main TJ authors, David B. Wexler and Bruce J. Winick.

Keywords: judicial empathy, therapeutic jurisprudence, judges, empathy

Language: English

Published: Number 3(35)/2023, pp. 53-64.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36280//AFPiFS.2023.2.53

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Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: empathy, judges, judicial empathy, therapeutic jurisprudence

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