JOHN T. NOONAN, JR. is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and is Robbins Professor of Law and Legal Ethics, emeritus, at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of several books on moral themes, including Persons and Masks of the Law and Bribes.KENNETH I. WINSTON is Professor of Philosophy at Wheaton College in Massachussetts. He has conducted seminars for judges on judicial ethics and the philosophy of law in a program sponsored by the American Academy of Judicial Education and is the editor of Principles of Social Order: Selected Essays of Lon L. Fuller.

• Preface The Ideal Judge and The Partial Judge The Impartiality of God The Mask of Impartiality Monsters Political Judges Judging Waiting for the Litigants Deciding on the Record Independent and Accountable Proclaiming Independence The Duty of Recusal Forms of Accountability

JOHN T. NOONAN, JR. is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and is Robbins Professor of Law and Legal Ethics, emeritus, at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of several books on moral themes, including Persons and Masks of the Law and Bribes.KENNETH I. WINSTON is Professor of Philosophy at Wheaton College in Massachussetts. He has conducted seminars for judges on judicial ethics and the philosophy of law in a program sponsored by the American Academy of Judicial Education and is the editor of Principles of Social Order: Selected Essays of Lon L. Fuller.

• Preface The Ideal Judge and The Partial Judge The Impartiality of God The Mask of Impartiality Monsters Political Judges Judging Waiting for the Litigants Deciding on the Record Independent and Accountable Proclaiming Independence The Duty of Recusal Forms of Accountability

JOHN T. NOONAN, JR. is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and is Robbins Professor of Law and Legal Ethics, emeritus, at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of several books on moral themes, including Persons and Masks of the Law and Bribes.KENNETH I. WINSTON is Professor of Philosophy at Wheaton College in Massachussetts. He has conducted seminars for judges on judicial ethics and the philosophy of law in a program sponsored by the American Academy of Judicial Education and is the editor of Principles of Social Order: Selected Essays of Lon L. Fuller.

• Preface The Ideal Judge and The Partial Judge The Impartiality of God The Mask of Impartiality Monsters Political Judges Judging Waiting for the Litigants Deciding on the Record Independent and Accountable Proclaiming Independence The Duty of Recusal Forms of Accountability