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Title Consequential courts : judicial roles in global perspective / [edited by] Diana Kapiszewski, Gordon Silverstein, Robert A. Kagan
Published Cambridge [UK] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013

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Series Comparative constitutional law and policy
Comparative constitutional law and policy.
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Judicial power.
Political questions and judicial power.
Courts.
LAW -- Comparative.
LAW -- Judicial Power.
Courts
Judicial power
Political questions and judicial power
Form Electronic book
Author Kapiszewski, Diana.
Silverstein, Gordon.
Kagan, Robert A.
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