
Introduction
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Thus, the expert’s normative function must be acknowledged and the
syllogistic structure of the expert-judge relationship revised. Particularly as
Leclerc also points out that the judge cannot be confined to the strictly legal
field: “a judgement does not merely consist in pronouncing the meaning of a
norm independently of the pragmatic context to which it applies.”
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Olivier Leclerc’s criticism thus calls for re-conceiving the expert-judge
relationship and the role these two functions play in judicial institutions
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. It
particularly invalidates proposals E2 and E3 of the canonical model which other
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