Challenged Justice: In Pursuit of Judicial Independence

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-42154-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 548 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 1101 g

Challenged Justice: In Pursuit of Judicial Independence is an academic continuation of the previous volumes on judicial Independence edited by Shimon Shetreet, with others: Jules Deschenes, Christopher Forsyth, and Wayne McCormack. All books were published by Brill Nijhoff: Judicial Independence: The Contemporary Debate (1985), The Culture of Judicial Independence: Conceptual Foundations and Practical Challenges (2012), The Culture of Judicial Independence: Rule of Law and World Peace (2014) and The Culture of Judicial Independence in a Globalised World (2016).

This book offers academic articles by distinguished jurists on judicial independence and judicial process in many jurisdictions including indicators of justice and analysis of international Standards on judicial independence and judicial ethics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shetreet, Shimon

Chodosh, Hiram

Eric, Helland

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Recht mehrerer Jurisdiktionen, Synopsen
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtstheorie, Rechtsmethodik, Rechtsdogmatik, Rechtsprechungslehre
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgements

Table of Cases

Table of Legislation

Notes on Contributors

1 General Introduction

Shimon Shetreet

PART 1

Challenges to Judicial Independence

2 Reflections on the Changing Position of the Judiciary

Lord Thomas with Introduction by Lord Pannick

3 Threats to Judicial Independence

Traditional Transitions Challenged

Wayne McCormack

4 The Rule of Universality and Particularity

Judicial Independence, Judicial Appointments and Other Issues

Shimon Shetreet

PART 2

Measuring Justice

5 Quality of Justice for Citizens

From Courts Standards to Equal Access for All

Daniela Piana

6 Commodification of Justice--A Personal View on Managerial Performance Indicators in the Judicial Context

Michael Bohlander

7 Judicial Independence Through Data-Driven Knowledge, Open Data, and Artificial Intelligence from a European Perspective

Gianpaolo Maria Ruotolo

8 Judicial Independence

A French Paradoxical Pattern in the European Field

Emmanuel Cartier

PART 3

Judicial Independence and Impartiality

9 Global Perspectives of Judicial Independence

Structural Transitions and Turmoil

Wayne McCormack

10 The Struggle to Defend the Independence of the Judiciary in Africa

Charles Manga Fombad

11 The Transformation of Judicial Independence in Belarus in The Post-Communist Era

Ksenyia Laputko

12 Aged Clichés, Different Suburb

Justice in Romania: Crisis Vs. Independence

Sebastian Spinei

13 Family Ties and Judicial Independence

Jonathan L. Entin

PART 4

Judicial Accountability

14 Judges’ Responsibility and Accountability

Eliezer Rivlin

15 The Code of Conduct for the Justices of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany

Thorsten Ingo Schmidt

16 Judges On and Off the Bench

The Outreach of Independence

Louis Blom-Cooper

PART 5

Judicial Protection of Individual Rights

17 Judicial Role in the Protection of Social Rights

Giuseppe Franco Ferrari

18 The Judicial Role in the United States and the Political Question Doctrine

Maimon Schwarzschild

PART 6

The Rule of Law and Democracy

19 Fighting for Political Liberalism

The Role of Lawyers in Mobilizing for Judicial Independence

Mónica Castillejos-Aragón

20 Matters of the Judiciary

A Role for Bar Associations

Cyrus Das

21 Democracy Challenged

Theoretical Foundations of the Concept of Judicial Independence and the Contemporary Challenges—Comparative Perspectives

Shimon Shetreet

22 Analysis of the Amendments of Mount Scopus Standards of Judicial Independence and the Bologna and Milan Global Code of Judicial Ethics (Adopted 2016–2019)

Shimon Shetreet

PART 7

Appendices

Appendix I Mount Scopus International Standards of Judicial Independence 421
Appendix II Bologna, Milano Global Code of Judicial Ethics 2015 456
Appendix III The New Delhi Code of Minimum Standards of Judicial Independence (Adopted by the IBA New Delhi Convention 1982)

Appendix IV Montreal Universal Declaration on the Independence of Justice

Appendix V UN Basic Principles on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers

Appendix VI United Kingdom Supreme Court Guide to Judicial Conduct (2019)

Appendix VII Code of Conduct for the Justices of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany

PART 8

In Memoriam

1 In Memoriam- Professor Marcel Storme

2 In Memoriam- Professor Sir Louis Blom- Cooper, QC

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Shimon Shetreet is the Greenblatt Chair of Public and International Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (emeritus). He is a Member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Arts and Sciences of Belgium and the author and editor of many books on the judiciary. He is the President of the International Association of Judicial Independence and World Peace and the leader of the International Project of Judicial Independence and the Mt Scopus International Standards of Judicial Independence 2008. Between 1988 and 1996 he served as a Member of the Israeli Parliament, and was a cabinet minister under Yitshak Rabin and Shimon Peres. He also served as Senior Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem. He was a Judge of the Standard Contract Court and served as a member of the Chief Justice Landau Commission on the Israeli Court System.

Hiram E. Chodosh is President and Professor of Claremont McKenna College. He served as Dean of the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah, and Hugh B. Brown Endowed Presidential Professor of Law and Senior Presidential Adviser on Global Strategy. Distinguished scholar and author.

Eric Helland is the William F. Podlich Professor of Economics and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College and an adjunct economist at the RAND Corporation, in the Institute for Civil Justice. He is the author of over 50 books and scientific articles.