Consequential courts : judicial roles in global perspective /

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"In the early twenty-first century, courts have become versatile actors in the governance of many constitutional democracies, and judges play a variety of roles in politics and policy making. Assembling papers penned by an array of academic specialists on high courts around the world, and prese...

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Main Author: Kapiszewski, Diana
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge [UK] ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Edition:1st Ed.
Subjects:
Judicial power.
Political questions and judicial power.
Courts.
LAW / Comparative.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Diana Kapiszewski, Gordon Silverstein, and Robert A. Kagan
  • The politics of courts in democratization : four junctures in Asia / Tom Ginsburg
  • Fragmentation? Defection? Legitimacy? : explaining judicial roles in post-Communist "colored revolutions" / Alexei Trochov
  • Constitutional authority and judicial pragmatism : politics and law in the evolution of South Africa's Constitutional Court / Heinz Klug
  • Distributing political power : the Constitutional Tribunal in post-authoritarian Chile / Druscilla L. Scribner
  • The transformation of the Mexican Supreme Court into an arena for political contestation / Mónica Castillejos-Araǵon
  • Courts enforcing political accountability : the role of criminal justice in Italy / Carlo Guarneri
  • The Dutch Hoge Raad : judicial roles played, lost, and not played / Nick Huls
  • A consequential court : the U.S. Supreme Court in the twentieth century / Robert A. Kagan.
  • Judicial constitution making in a divided society : the Israeli case / Amnon Reichman
  • Public interest litigation and the transformation of the Supreme Court of India / Manoj Mate
  • The judicial dynamics of the French and European fundamental rights revolution / Mitchel de S.-O.-l'E. Lasser
  • Constitutional courts as bulwarks of secularism / Ran Hirschl
  • Why the legal complex is integral to theories of consequential courts / Terence C. Halliday
  • Judicial power : getting it and keeping it / John Ferejohn
  • Constitutional politics in the active voice / Mark A. Graber
  • The might problem continues / Martin Shapiro
  • Conclusion : of judicial ships and winds of change / Diana Kapiszewski, Gordon Silverstein, and Robert A. Kagan.

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