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[by John Steele]  I've previously defended the "judge as ump/ref" analogy, in part because the job of the ref/ump is far from mechanical.  Mitchell Berman has written an interesting paper about reffing at the end of game -- specifically, on whether the rules should/do change at critical junctures.  (h/t: Legal Theory Blog)  That aspect of reffing was one I had mentioned in one of my previous posts on the topic, because it demonstrates to me that you can't be a good ref without a theory of reffing.

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