The Politics of Judicial Selection in Ireland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of Judicial Selection in Ireland write by Jennifer Carroll MacNeill. This book was released on 2016. The Politics of Judicial Selection in Ireland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides an unprecedented analysis of the politics underlying the appointment of judges in Ireland, enlivened by a wealth of interview material, and putting the Irish experience into a broad comparative framework. It tells the inside story of the process by which judges are chosen both in cabinet and in the Judicial Appointments Advisory Board over the past three decades and charts a path for future reform of judicial appointment processes in Ireland. The research is based on a large number of interviews with senior judges, current and former politicians, Attorneys-General and members of the Judicial Appointments AdvisoryBoard. The circumstances surrounding decisions about institutional design and institutional change are reconstructed in meticulous detail, giving us an excellent insight into the significance of a complex series of events that govern the way in which judges in Ireland are chosen today. Author Jennifer Carroll MacNeill is both an IRCHSS Government of Ireland Scholar and the winner of the Basil Chubb Prize 2015 for the best politics PhD in Ireland. [Subject: Legal History, Legal Studies, Politics, Ireland]
Judicial Power in Ireland
Judicial Power in Ireland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Judicial Power in Ireland write by Eoin Carolan. This book was released on 2018-08. Judicial Power in Ireland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
How Judges Judge
How Judges Judge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How Judges Judge write by Brian M. Barry. This book was released on 2020-11-26. How Judges Judge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A judge’s role is to make decisions. This book is about how judges undertake this task. It is about forces on the judicial role and their consequences, about empirical research from a variety of academic disciplines that observes and verifies how factors can affect how judges judge. On the one hand, judges decide by interpreting and applying the law, but much more affects judicial decision-making: psychological effects, group dynamics, numerical reasoning, biases, court processes, influences from political and other institutions, and technological advancement. All can have a bearing on judicial outcomes. In How Judges Judge: Empirical Insights into Judicial Decision-Making, Brian M. Barry explores how these factors, beyond the law, affect judges in their role. Case examples, judicial rulings, judges’ own self-reflections on their role and accounts from legal history complement this analysis to contextualise the research, make it more accessible and enrich the reader’s understanding and appreciation of judicial decision-making. Offering research-based insights into how judges make the decisions that can impact daily life and societies around the globe, this book will be of interest to practising and training judges, litigation lawyers and those studying law and related disciplines.
The Politics of Judicial Independence in the UK's Changing Constitution
The Politics of Judicial Independence in the UK's Changing Constitution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of Judicial Independence in the UK's Changing Constitution write by Graham Gee. This book was released on 2015-03-12. The Politics of Judicial Independence in the UK's Changing Constitution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Judicial independence is generally understood as requiring that judges must be insulated from political life. The central claim of this work is that far from standing apart from the political realm, judicial independence is a product of it. It is defined and protected through interactions between judges and politicians. In short, judicial independence is a political achievement. This is the main conclusion of a three-year research project on the major changes introduced by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, and the consequences for judicial independence and accountability. The authors interviewed over 150 judges, politicians, civil servants and practitioners to understand the day-to-day processes of negotiation and interaction between politicians and judges. They conclude that the greatest threat to judicial independence in future may lie not from politicians actively seeking to undermine the courts, but rather from their increasing disengagement from the justice system and the judiciary.
The People’s Courts
The People’s Courts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The People’s Courts write by Jed Handelsman Shugerman. This book was released on 2012-02-27. The People’s Courts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the United States, almost 90 percent of state judges have to run in popular elections to remain on the bench. In the past decade, this peculiarly American institution has produced vicious multi-million-dollar political election campaigns and high-profile allegations of judicial bias and misconduct. The People’s Courts traces the history of judicial elections and Americans’ quest for an independent judiciary—one that would ensure fairness for all before the law—from the colonial era to the present. In the aftermath of economic disaster, nineteenth-century reformers embraced popular elections as a way to make politically appointed judges less susceptible to partisan patronage and more independent of the legislative and executive branches of government. This effort to reinforce the separation of powers and limit government succeeded in many ways, but it created new threats to judicial independence and provoked further calls for reform. Merit selection emerged as the most promising means of reducing partisan and financial influence from judicial selection. It too, however, proved vulnerable to pressure from party politics and special interest groups. Yet, as Shugerman concludes, it still has more potential for protecting judicial independence than either political appointment or popular election. The People’s Courts shows how Americans have been deeply committed to judicial independence, but that commitment has also been manipulated by special interests. By understanding our history of judicial selection, we can better protect and preserve the independence of judges from political and partisan influence.
