Consequential courts : judicial roles in global perspective / [edited by] Diana Kapiszewski, Gordon Silverstein, Robert A. Kagan.

"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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Other Authors: Kapiszewski, Diana, Silverstein, Gordon, Kagan, Robert A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge [UK] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Series:Comparative constitutional law and policy.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.