ABSTRACT
To reflect properly on possible judicial reforms, we should mainly concentrate our attention on the ‘constitutional means’ and the ‘personal motives’ allowed to the judges.2 This suggestion is made within a broader investigation aimed at studying the behaviour of judges in Latin America during recent decades. The account consist of a normative part, which develops a ‘regulative ideal’ aimed at evaluating the role of judges, and a descriptive part, which applies that ideal to examine one particular Latin American example, Argentina since the last military dictatorship.
