The judge in a democracy /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Hebrew |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©2006.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.