Judicial Independence in the Age of Democracy

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813920167
• ISBN13: 9780813920160
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 325 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"