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Title
Consequential courts
Type
Text
Monograph
Contribution
Kapiszewski, Diana (Contributor)
Silverstein, Gordon (Contributor)
Kagan, Robert A. (Contributor)
Subject
Judicial power (LCSH)
Political questions and judicial power (LCSH)
Courts (LCSH)
LAW / Comparative (BISACSH)
Language
English
Classification
LCC: K3367 .C657 2013
DDC: 347/.012 full
LAW016000
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Summary
"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 presented during a year-long Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar at the University of California, Berkeley, this volume maps the roles in governance that courts are undertaking and the ways in which they have come to matter in the political life of their nations. It offers empirically rich accounts of dramatic judicial actions in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, exploring the political conditions and judicial strategies that have fostered those assertions of power, and evaluating when and how courts' performance of new roles has been politically consequential. By focusing on the content and consequences of judicial power, the book advances a new agenda for the comparative study of courts"-- Provided by publisher.
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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Change Date: 2020-01-15T11:25:24
Creation Date: 2012-09-19
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