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Author:   Shimon Shetreet ,  Hiram Chodosh ,  Helland Eric
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Martinus Nijhoff
Weight:   1.101kg
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9789004421547

ISBN 10:   9004421548
Pages:   548
Publication Date:   26 August 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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

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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.

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