Title: Consequential courts : judicial roles in global perspective
Abstract:Part I. Expanding Judicial Roles in New or Restored Democracies: 1. The politics of courts in democratization: four junctures in Asia Tom Ginsburg 2. Fragmentation? Defection? Legitimacy? Explaining j...Part I. Expanding Judicial Roles in New or Restored Democracies: 1. The politics of courts in democratization: four junctures in Asia Tom Ginsburg 2. Fragmentation? Defection? Legitimacy? Explaining judicial roles in post-communist 'colored revolutions' Alexei Trochev 3. Constitutional authority and judicial pragmatism: politics and law in the evolution of South Africa's constitutional court Heinz Klug 4. Distributing political power: the constitutional tribunal in post-authoritarian Chile Druscilla L. Scribner 5. The transformation of the Mexican Supreme Court into an arena for political contestation Monica Castillejos-Aragon Part II. Expanding Judicial Roles in Established Democracies: 6. Courts enforcing political accountability: the role of criminal justice in Italy Carlo Guarnieri 7. The Dutch Hoge Raad: judicial roles played, lost, and not played Nick Huls 8. A consequential court: the US Supreme Court in the twentieth century Robert A. Kagan 9. Judicial constitution-making in a divided society - the Israeli case Amnon Reichman 10. Public interest litigation and the transformation of the Supreme Court of India Manoj Mate 11. The judicial dynamics of the French and European fundamental rights revolution Mitchel de S.-O.-l'E. Lasser 12. Constitutional courts as bulwarks of secularism Ran Hirschl Part III. Four 'Provocations': 13. Why the legal complex is integral to theories of consequential courts Terence C. Halliday 14. Judicial power: getting it and keeping it John Ferejohn 15. Out of phase: politics, regimes, and regime politics Mark A. Graber 16. The mighty problem continues Martin Shapiro 17. Conclusion: of judicial ships and winds of change Diana Kapiszewski, Gordon Silverstein and Robert A. Kagan.Read More
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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