“A Minha Verdade é a Minha Justiça”: atualizando os significados atribuídos ao princípio da imparcialidade judicial

This paper is the outcome of a research inside Rio de Janeiro’s State Court. The methodology consists in a dialogue I intended to do between law, which I studied under graduation, and anthropology, that I was introduced to, when I was under my post graduati...

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Main Author: Bárbara Gomes Lupetti Baptista
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centro Universitário de Valença 2020-07-01
Series:Revista Interdisciplinar de Direito
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Online Access:http://revistas.faa.edu.br/index.php/FDV/article/view/842/606
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Summary:This paper is the outcome of a research inside Rio de Janeiro’s State Court. The methodology consists in a dialogue I intended to do between law, which I studied under graduation, and anthropology, that I was introduced to, when I was under my post graduation studies. The research allows understanding that the principle of judicial 76impartiality consists in a belief, discursively constructed inside the judicial field, and it works as a structuring category inside the judiciary. However, the discursive belief strikes against the empirical reality, as the fieldwork data shows. Judge’s subjective aspects directly interfere during the decision making. It suggests that judge’s morality and sense of justice interfere during the process and often in its result. Between the paradox of “seeming impartial” and the fact of “being humans” the judges describe their dilemmas and the challenges they experience when they try “not to contaminate” their essential impartiality.
ISSN:1518-8167
2447-4290