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Judicial Independence in the Age of Democracy:
Critical Perspectives from Around the World

Edited by Peter H. Russell and David M. O'Brien

320 pages • 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

Cloth ISBN 0-8139-2015-9 $70.00 • Paper ISBN 0-8139-2016-7 $22.50

Constitutionalism and Democracy Series


This collection of essays by leading scholars of constitutional law looks at a critical component of constitutional democracy--judicial independence--from an international comparative perspective. Peter H. Russell's introduction outlines a general theory of judicial independence, while the contributors analyze a variety of regimes from the United States and Latin America to Russia and Eastern Europe, Western Europe and the United Kingdom, Australia, Israel, Japan, and South Africa. Russell's conclusion compares these various regimes in light of his own analytical framework.

 

Contributors:

Henry J. Abraham, University of Virginia

Hugh Corder, University of Capetown, South Africa

Jill Cottrell, University of Hong Kong

J. Michael Dodson, Texas Christian University

Todd Foglesong, University of Utah

Yash Ghai, University of Hong Kong

Carlo Guarnieri, University of Bologna, Italy

A. E. Dick Howard, University of Virginia

Donald W. Jackson, Texas Christian University

Donald P. Kommers, University of Notre Dame

David M. O'Brien, University of Virginia

Yasuo Ohkoshi, Tokyo International University

Peter H. Russell, University of Toronto

Martin Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley

Shimon Shetreet, The Hebrew University, Israel

Robert Stevens, Pembroke College, University of Oxford

John M. Williams, University of Adelaide, Australia



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Peter H. Russell, Professor of Political Science Emeritus at the University of Toronto, is author of seven books on the judiciary, constitutional issues, and democracy.

David M. O'Brien, Leone Reaves and George W. Spicer Professor at the University of Virginia, is author of numerous publications, including Storm Center: The Supreme Court in American Politics.



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Judicial Independence in the Age of Democracy: Critical Perspectives from Around the World
Edited by Peter H. Russell and David M. O'Brien
Available April 2001
320 pages • 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Cloth ISBN 0-8139-2015-9 $70.00 • Paper ISBN 0-8139-2016-7 $22.50

http://www.upress.virginia.edu/books/russell&obrien.html

Revised 3/20/01