Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Notes on Contributors; Judges, Courts and Policy-Making in Western Europe; Judicial Politics in Britain: Patrolling the Boundaries; Where Judicial Politics Are Legislative Politics: The French Constitutional Council; Judicial Policy-Making in Germany: The Federal Constitutional Court; Judicial Policy-Making in Italy: The Constitutional Court; Judicial Policy-Making in the Netherlands: The Case-by-Case Method; Judicial Politics in Belgium; The European Court of Justice: Supranational Policy-Making
The Court of Justice of the European Community and the Politics of Institutional ReformJudicial Policy-Making and the Evolving Protection of Human Rights: The European Court of Human Rights in Comparative Perspective; Index
Summary
Focusing on the intersection of politics and law in six western European countries and in two supra-national bodies, the contributors here aim to debunk the myth that judges are merely ""la bouche de la loi"" and analyze similiarities in policy-making of the judiciaries from one nation to the next