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Introduction: Environmental Law Without Congress, Shi-Ling Hsu
Introduction: Environmental Law Without Congress, Shi-Ling Hsu
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A Dynamic Theory Of Judicial Role, David Landau
A Dynamic Theory Of Judicial Role, David Landau
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Recent scholarship has focused heavily on the activism of courts in the fragile democracies of the “Global South.” Courts in countries like India, Colombia, and South Africa have issued landmark decisions in difficult political environments, in the process raising unanswered questions about the appropriate conception of judicial role in these climates. Much of the judicial and academic effort in these contexts is self-consciously oriented towards using courts to carry out basic improvements in the quality of political systems seen as badly deficient. In other words, the core task is to improve the quality of the democratic system over time. These …