2018-05-092018-05-092002-12ULHÔA, Joel Pimentel de. O juiz e a lei. Philósophos, Goiânia, v. 7, n. 2, p. 21-34, jul./dez. 2002. Disponível em: <https://www.revistas.ufg.br/philosophos/article/view/3158/3162>.http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/handle/ri/14847This paper analyses the judge’s impasse of having to serve justice, by duty of consciousness and for having to apply the law, even when it is unjust, as an obligation of his position. Placing the discussion of the difficult relationship of the judge and the law upon the iniquitous ethos of the social, the article concludes that we all have, even more the judge, by the nature of the responsibilities that are for him uncompromising, the moral duty of having to serve justice – duty which is above all juridical imposition – in lieu of a more ethical society.porAcesso AbertoJustiçaLeiDireitoDeverOrdemDesordemDemocraciaJusticeLawRightDutyOrderDisorderDemocracyArtigo10.5216/phi.v7i2.31581414-2236