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Judicial Independence Under Threat
Yvonne McDermott Rees 
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Dimitrios Giannoulopoulos
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Dimitrios Giannoulopoulos
Swansea University Author:
Yvonne McDermott Rees
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DOI (Published version): 10.5871/bacad/9780197267035.001.0001
Abstract
Judicial independence is increasingly under threat. The rise of populism risks undermining the separation of powers, with some politicians, media outlets and members of the public taking aim at judges, labelling them as part of the establishment and the elite, the 'enemies of the people'....
| ISBN: | 9780197267035 9780191986734 |
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| Published: |
Oxford
Oxford University Press
2022
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| Online Access: |
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/judicial-independence-under-threat-9780197267035 |
| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa61379 |
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| Abstract: |
Judicial independence is increasingly under threat. The rise of populism risks undermining the separation of powers, with some politicians, media outlets and members of the public taking aim at judges, labelling them as part of the establishment and the elite, the 'enemies of the people'. Judicial Independence Under Threat seeks to situate these contemporary challenges to judicial independence in their proper legal, philosophical, political and historical contexts. It brings academic scholars from a variety of disciplines together with judges, politicians and legal professionals and asks what core shared values of our legal and political systems judicial independence seeks to protect, and how threats to that independence can be protected against. What can we learn from comparative, historical, political, philosophical, and legal insights on the separation of powers, and what means can we discover to prevent against challenges to the independence of judges in times of crisis? |
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| Keywords: |
Judicial independence, rule of law, judges, human rights, criminal law, populism, media |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Funders: |
British Academy |