THE CULTURE OF JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE: RULE OF LAW AND WORLD PEACE

Shetreet, Shimon [Edited by]

ISBN 10: 9004257802 / ISBN 13: 9789004257801

Published by Brill Nijhoff, Leiden and Boston, 2014

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Octavo, viii, xxii, xxxii, xxxvii, xxxix, xlv, 554 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in the publisher's green cloth bearing gilt lettering to the spine. Boards show extremely light wear with minor rubbing to the fore corners. Text block has very faint finger marks to the edges. Few instances of ex-library marking to the head edge and to the title page. Previous bookshop's sticker to the rear pastedown. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, ND-HV Section. 1377297. FP New Rockville Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE CULTURE OF JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE: RULE OF LAW AND WORLD PEACE
• Publisher: Brill Nijhoff, Leiden and Boston
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004257802
• ISBN 13: 9789004257801
• Binding: Hardcover
• Weight: 3 pounds
• Seller catalogs:
  • Politics, Government, and Law

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Synopsis

The Culture of Judicial Independence: Rule of Law and World Peace, is the third book by Shimon Shetreet on Judicial Independence. The first was Judicial Independence: The Contemporary Debate (edited by Shimon Shetreet and Jules Deschênes, Nijhoff,1985). The second was The Culture of Judicial Independence: Conceptual Foundations and Practical Challenges (Edited by Shimon Shetreet and Christopher Forsyth, Nijhoff, 2012).
This volume contains essays by senior academics, judges and practitioners across jurisdictions offering an analysis of several central issues relative to the culture of Judicial Independence. These include judicial review, human rights, democracy, the rule of law and world peace, constitutional position of top courts, relations between the judiciary and the other branches of government, impartiality and fairness of the judicial process, judicial ethics, dispute resolution in arbitral awards and international investments, international courts and cross country issues, judicial selection. The volume also offers an update report on the International Project of Judicial Independence of the International Association of Judicial Independence and World Peace, including the relations of top courts and international courts, administrative judges, culture of judicial independence and public inquiries by judges.

About the Author

Shimon Shetreet holds the Greenblatt Chair of Public and International Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He is the author and editor of many books on the judiciary. He is the President of International Association of Judicial Independence and World Peace and the leader of the International Project of Judicial Independence and the Mt Scopus Standards of judicial Independence 2008. Between 1988 and 1996 he served as a Member of the Israeli Parliament, and was a cabinet minister under Yitshak Rabin and Shimon Peres. He was a Judge of the Standard Contract Court and served as a member of the Chief Justice Landau Commission on the Israeli Court System.