Informality and Courts : Comparative Perspectives.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dressel, Björn.

Contributor:

Sanchez-Urribarri, Raul.

Stroh-Steckelberg, Alexander.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Courts.

Judicial process.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Uses a comparative perspective to demonstrate how informal institutions and relations shape the composition and performance of courts globally.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Part I Theory, Concepts and Methods

1. Informality and Courts: Towards a Relational Perspective on Judicial Politics

2. Paradoxical Informalities? On the Mutual Logic of Informal Relationships and Institutions

3. Convergence of De Jure and De Facto Judicial Independence? The Role of Informal Institutions

4. The Ties that Bind: Perspectives on Judicial Loyalties

Part II Political Relations

5. Pliant Courts, Recalcitrant Chiefs and Judicial Clientelism in Authoritarian Regimes

6. Informality and Judicial Decision-Making: The Role of Judge Networks in Southeast Asia

7. When Informal Ties with Political Leaders Protect Judges' Fragile Independence: South Africa and Namibia after Apartheid

8. Judicial Resistance: The Shield and the Sword of Informality

Part III Professional Relations

9. The Bar with the Bench: Informal Legal Networks and Judicial Behaviour in Pakistan

10. Education versus Experience? An Elite Legal Dynasty among Federal Judges in the United States

11. Argentina's 'Judicial Family': Mapping Family Connections in the Argentine Provincial Federal Judiciary

12. Gender, Informality and Courts: Mapping Theoretical Approaches

Part IV International Ties

13. Social Networks and Nonlegal Sanctions: Compliance with International Courts

14. Informality and Multi-level Judicial Appointment Processes in African Regional Courts

15. Disseminating Ideas and Influence Through Transnational Peer-Education

16. Good Intentions, Questionable Advice: Explaining Reform Networks' Disappointing Results

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781399535274

1399535277

9781399535281

1399535285

OCLC:

1470858357