Product Description: This study analyzes the contents and scope of the principle of judicial independence as currently applied in the international judiciary. In light of the increasing role played by courts in the international system, the book initially examines the theoretical foundation for the principle's application and develops a working definition of judicial independence in an international law context...read more

Product Description: 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 Deschenes, Nijhoff,1985)...read more

Product Description: Are the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) independent actors, who mete out fair and un-biased justice, or instruments of a new world order, which execute the will of the most powerful states? By applying process tracing and frame analysis, this book reveals the interplay between the power politics of states, the agenda setting power of international criminal tribunals and the scope of the autonomy which the tribunals, the prosecutors and judges enjoy - and how they make use of it...read more

Product Description: Judicial independence is not just an abstract principle to which government systems, ensuring the rule of law, must adhere. It is also a concrete standard, set out in binding (as well as in some non-binding) human rights documents and enforced by human rights courts all over the world...read more

Product Description: This slim volume seeks to illustrate what can happen when the judiciary is stripped of its independence and prevented from following the rule of law. While it provides some lessons from foreign nations where the rule of law has been sublimated to opportunistic leaders, it also provides a chilling reminder that it can happen here...read more

Product Description: This book examines the constitutional principles governing the relationship between legislatures and courts at that critical crossroads of their power, where legislatures may seek to intervene in the judicial process - or to interfere with judicial functions - to secure outcomes consistent with their policy objectives or interests...read more