For provocative accounts of the goals and motives
of judges, see Duncan Kennedy,
Freedom and Constraint in Adjudication: A Critical Phenomenology, 36 Journal
of Legal Education 518, 527-29 (1986), and Richard A. Posner, Overcoming
Law (Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 1995), pp. 109-10,
117-23, 125, 142-43.