Judicial review

Lee Bollinger is one of our foremost experts on the First Amendment--both an erudite scholar and elegant advocate.

This book illuminates how law and politics interact in the judicial doctrines and explores how democracy sustains and is sustained by the exercise of judicial power.

Shows how judges work in a deliberative fashion with aligned political parties to re-interpret legal and constitutional text.

Based on 20 years of research, including an examination of the papers of eight of the nine Justices who voted in Roe v.

In a comprehensive examination of the constitutional systems of Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore, Po Jen Yap contributes to a field that has traditionally focussed on Western jurisdictions.

What a conservative Supreme Court is doing with its powerFrom 2011, when Republicans gained control of the House of Representatives, until the pandemic made inaction untenable, Congress enacted hardly any major legislation outside of the tax law President Trump signed in 2017.

Shows how judges work in a deliberative fashion with aligned political parties to re-interpret legal and constitutional text.

Constitutional Statecraft in Asian Courts explores how courts engage in constitutional state-building in aspiring, yet deeply fragile, democracies in Asia.

Constitutional Statecraft in Asian Courts explores how courts engage in constitutional state-building in aspiring, yet deeply fragile, democracies in Asia.

As the Kadi-hype following the 2008 European Court of Justice judgment demonstrated, there are many problems associated with the judicial review of acts of international organizations.

À l’heure où même des parlementaires désignent les prisons comme une « honte pour la République », nos sociétés qui se veulent évoluées s’efforcent de donner un « sens » à la peine.

A comparative, systematic and critical analysis of constitutional courts and constitutional review in Asia.

Covering all of the substantive grounds on which a claim may be brought, this definitive new work provides unrivalled analysis and guidance on the law of judicial review.

This book illuminates how law and politics interact in the judicial doctrines and explores how democracy sustains and is sustained by the exercise of judicial power.

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Judgement Calls tackles one of the most important and controversial legal questions in contemporary America: How should judges interpret the Constitution?

The Credentialed Court starts by establishing just how different todays Justices are from their predecessors.

The "e;rule of law"e; stands at the heart of the American legal system.

Constitutions divide into those that provide for a constitutionally protected set of rights, where courts can strike down legislation, and those where rights are protected predominantly by parliament, where courts can interpret legislation to protect rights, but cannot strike down legislation.

English courts have traditionally held a policy of judicial restraint towards regulatory decisions in the commercial context.

Constitutions divide into those that provide for a constitutionally protected set of rights, where courts can strike down legislation, and those where rights are protected predominantly by parliament, where courts can interpret legislation to protect rights, but cannot strike down legislation.

The Oxford Handbook of U.

This book offers the first quantitative study of decision-making on the UK Supreme Court.

Explores how courts vary the depth of scrutiny in judicial review and the virtues of different approaches.

The second volume in this series explores the evolution of administrative laws in Europe to better understand the foundations of EU institutions, focusing on the period of 1890-1910.

Provides the first comparative look into executive decree authority.

This new history of the Christian Right considers how conservative evangelicals in the modern American South forged a political identity.

Judgement Calls tackles one of the most important and controversial legal questions in contemporary America: How should judges interpret the Constitution?

Who Judges?

To effect just outcomes the justice system requires that law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and judges be committed-above all-to doing justice.

Here, Philip Bobbitt studies the basis for the legitimacy of judicial review by examining six types of constitutional argument--historical, textual, structural, prudential doctrinal, and ethical--through the unusual method of contrasting sketches of prominent legal figures responding to the constitutional crises of their day.

Judicial Review, Third Edition covers the grounds for review, defences to an application, the remedies and procedures involved and covers the Rules of the Superior Courts 2011, SI 691/2011.

Here, Philip Bobbitt studies the basis for the legitimacy of judicial review by examining six types of constitutional argument--historical, textual, structural, prudential doctrinal, and ethical--through the unusual method of contrasting sketches of prominent legal figures responding to the constitutional crises of their day.

This inspiring memoir begins in 1983, on the day John Charles Thomas was sworn in as the first Black-and, at thirty-two years of age, the youngest-justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia in the commonwealth's history.

From the ancient origins of Just War doctrine to utilitarian and retributive theories of punishment, concepts of proportionality have long been an instrumental part of the rule of law and an essential check on government power.

This book offers the first quantitative study of decision-making on the UK Supreme Court.

We are confronted with a jarring reality that the Left has succeeded in growing the power of the courts.

Develops a theory of the modern state based on trust, drawing on Law, History and Social Science.

This is the second edition of Hart's leading book on the principle and practice of judicial review in Northern Ireland.

Discusses Upendra Baxi''s role as an Indian jurist and how his contributions have shaped our understanding of legal jurisprudence.

A sitting justice reflects upon the authority of the Supreme Court-how that authority was gained and how measures to restructure the Court could undermine both the Court and the constitutional system of checks and balances that depends on it.

In its six-decade history, the German Federal Constitutional Court has become one of the most powerful and influential constitutional tribunals in the world.

This new history of the Christian Right considers how conservative evangelicals in the modern American South forged a political identity.

Since the 1990 wave of constitutional reforms in Africa, the role of constitutional courts or courts exercising the power to interpret and apply constitutions have become a critical aspect to the on-going process of constitutional construction, reconstruction, and maintenance.

Comparing five Central American countries, this book explores the influences of criminals, activists, and other societal actors on the justice system.

The third wave of democracy that reached African shores at the end of the Cold War brought with it a dramatic decline from 1990 onwards in dictatorships, military regimes, one-party governments, and presidents for life.

This important new book penetrates that veil of secrecy with thirteen interviews tape recorded in the chambers of the respective judges.

Covering all of the substantive grounds on which a claim may be brought, this definitive new work provides unrivalled analysis and guidance on the law of judicial review.

The Supreme Court of Canada decision in the Marshall case asserted sweeping Native treaty rights and generated intense controversy.

The government has no power greater than to take away a person's freedom or even life.