What makes an effective judge

A small number of disputes end up in a court before a judge with specialist knowledge and experience. Opinions differ about how judges should be selected, by whom they should be selected, and for what reasons.

Explanation:

To recognise that there are a broad range of views about the traits, skills and knowledge required of an effective judge.

a historian researching the immigration policies of the early 1900s would expect a source written today,rather than in 1910 to :

( a ) be more interested in objective data and statistics.