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Whether examining election outcomes, the legal status of terrorism suspects, or if (or how) people can be sentenced to death, a judge in a modern democracy assumes a role that raises some of the most contentious political issues of our day. But do judges even have a role beyond deciding the disputes...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Barak, Aharon
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Hebrew
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
Israel. > Bet ha-mishpaṭ ha-ʻelyon.
Israël. > Bet ha-mishpa*t ha-ʻelyon.
Israel. > Bet ha-mishpaṭ ha-ʻelyon
Judges.
Judicial process.
Law > Interpretation and construction.
Judicial power.
Judges > Israel.
Judicial power > Israel.
Judge-made law > Israel.
Courts > Israel.
Juges > Israël.
Processus judiciaire.
Droit > Interprétation.
Pouvoir judiciaire > Israël.
Droit créé par le juge > Israël.
Tribunaux > Israël.
Pouvoir judiciaire.
LAW > Courts.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Democracy.
Courts
Judge-made law
Judges
Judicial power
Judicial process
Law > Interpretation and construction
Israel
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Bridging the gap between law and society
  • Protection the Constitution and democracy
  • Preconditions for realizing the judicial role
  • The meaning of means
  • Interpretation
  • The development of the common law
  • Balancing and weighing
  • Non-justiciability, or "political questions"
  • Standing
  • Comparative law
  • The judgment
  • Tension among the branches
  • The relationship between the judiciary and the legislature
  • The relationship between the judiciary and the executive
  • Activism and self-restraint
  • The judicial role and the problem of terrorism
  • The role of the judge: Theory, practice, and the future.

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