Courts in federal countries

federalists or unitarists?

Courts are key players in the dynamics of federal countries since their rulings have a direct impact on the ability of governments to centralize and decentralize power. Courts in Federal Countries examines the role high courts play in thirteen countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany ...

A democratic theory of judgment

In this sweeping look at political and philosophical history, Linda M. G. Zerilli unpacks the tightly woven core of Hannah Arendt's unfinished work on a tenacious modern problem: how to judge critically in the wake of the collapse of inherited criteria of judgment. Engaging ...

Diálogo entre Cortes

En un mundo interdependiente, en el que se repiten los problemas a los que se enfrentan los jueces de los diferentes países, el diálogo entre jueces nacionales e internacionales se erige como una estrategia indispensable para adelantar la labor judical. Este libro recoge las reflexiones ...

The objectivity of judicial decisions

a comparative analysis of nine jurisdictions

This book discusses how judges qualify their activities as objective. The data for this project was retrieved from a large sample of cases using Langacker’s methodology. The sample included over a thousand decisions from Brazil, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Romania and the ...

Being a judge in the Modern World

The role of the judiciary is constantly evolving and is in many ways more important than ever. Indeed, many argue that the sovereignty of parliament is eroding and being replaced by the respective power of judges. The Jackson Reforms of 2010, for example, saw judges ...

Access to justice and legal Aid

comparative perspectives on unmet legal need

This book considers how access to justice is affected by restrictions to legal aid budgets and increasingly prescriptive service guidelines. As common law jurisdictions, England and Wales and Australia, share similar ideals, policies and practices, but they differ in aspects of their legal and political ...

La politización de la justicia

claves de una realidad

El presente trabajo aborda el conjunto de relaciones interdependientes que enlazan la política con la justicia. Pone de manifiesto que tanto la politización de la justicia como la judicialización de la política son dos deformaciones de una Justicia independiente. La proyección de los partidos políticos ...

Justicia o burocracia

La obra formula una severa crítica de la llamada Oficina judicial como núcleo de una nueva administración de justicia burocrática, despersonalizada y dependiente del poder político, y como tal profundamente inconstitucional e insólita en el panorama comparado. El autor critica "con brillantez", mediante un "amplio ...

Presunción de inocencia y juicios paralelos en derecho comparado

III Sesión del Observatorio de la Presunción de inocencia y los juicios paralelos

Hoy día las vulneraciones más significativas del derecho a la presunción de inocencia están estrechamente conectadas con lo que conocemos como ?juicios mediáticos?, aunque cada vez que se produce un ?juicios paralelo? es en realidad la Justicia con mayúsculas y todas las garantías del proceso ...

Justicia constitucional, derechos fundamentales y tutela judicial

Los ensayos que conforman este volumen tienen como premisa la convicción que los derechos fundamentales deben su significado al grado de eficacia con el que cuenta su protección por el ordenamiento. Resulta, por ello, del todo evidente que están privadas de valor las afirmaciones, incluso ...

The modern judge

power, responsibility and society's expectations

ir Mark's aim in this book is to be frank rather than scholarly about judging. The trial judge is in a very different position to the appellate judge. The trial is where the facts are determined and it is essentially a trial judge who ...

Reconstructing judicial review

This book offers a new interpretation of judicial review in England and Wales as being concerned with the advancement of justice and good governance, as opposed to being concerned primarily with ultra vires or common law constitutionalism. It is developed both from examining the functions ...

Institutions for future generations

In times of climate change and public debt, a concern for intergenerational justice should lead us to have a closer look at theories of intergenerational justice. It should also press us to provide institutional design proposals to change the decision-making world that surrounds us. This ...

Reputation and judicial tactics

a theory of national and international Courts

This book argues that national and international courts seek to enhance their reputations through the strategic exercise of judicial power. Courts often cannot enforce their judgments and must rely on reputational sanctions to ensure compliance. One way to do this is for courts to improve ...

Federal Courts in a nutshell

This authoritative text lays out the constitutional sources of federal judicial authority and its limits. Some limits are constitutional, others statutory, and still others self-imposed. There is extended consideration of constitutional and statutory arising-under jurisdiction, diversity jurisdiction, abstention, sovereign immunity and the Eleventh Amendment, official ...

My own words

The New York Times bestselling book from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg-"a comprehensive look inside her brilliantly analytical, entertainingly wry mind, revealing the fascinating life of one of our generation's most influential voices in both law and public opinion" (Harper's Bazaar ...

Teoria e prassi dell'access to Justice

un raffronto tra ordinamento nazionale e ordinamenti esteri

¿Debe algún tribunal tener la última palabra? El Tribunal de Justicia y los tribunales de los seis Estados fundadores y del Reino Unido

La convivencia en los Estados de la Unión Europea de dos órdenes legales (el nacional y el europeo) ha convertido a los jueces en los verdaderos artífices de la integración europea. El Tribunal de Justicia y los tribunales nacionales de los Estados miembros, como garantes ...

Les juges: décideurs politiques?

essais sur le pouvoir politique des juges dans l'exercice de leur fonction

Dans une société qui connaît une judiciarisation exponentielle de ses rapports sociaux (économiques, familiaux, professionnels, etc.), quelles sont la place et la légitimité du (des) juge(s)? Interprète(s) de la loi ou décideur(s) politique(s) ?

On lawmaking and public trust

Over the last decades, the evolution of public law has been marked by a trend towards the diversification of sources and forms of law, processes and governance tools. In our globalized world, various factors - such as the increasing importance of European law, international law and ...