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Judicial Independence: New Challenges In Established Nations, Martin Shapiro
Judicial Independence: New Challenges In Established Nations, Martin Shapiro
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
Because courts are both conflict-resolving and lawmaking bodies, they should be both independent and accountable. This paradox of incidence and accountability cannot be resolved but only addressed by various and shifting pragmatic accommodations between independence and accountability. Prosecutors, trial courts, appeals courts, and constitutional courts are each subject to differing consideration in arriving at such accommodations.
Moreover, courts, as courts of law, are not independent but are agents of statutory and constitutional lawmakers. Excessive emphasis on judicial independence creates the danger that authoritarian regimes may achieve a cloak of legitimacy for their laws by having them enforced by independent judiciaries. …
Judicial Activism And Fourteenth Amendment Privacy Claims: The Allure Of Originalism And The Unappreciated Promise Of Constrained Nonoriginalism, Daniel O. Conkle
Judicial Activism And Fourteenth Amendment Privacy Claims: The Allure Of Originalism And The Unappreciated Promise Of Constrained Nonoriginalism, Daniel O. Conkle
Articles by Maurer Faculty
Among other meanings, "judicial activism" can be defined as judicial decisionmaking that frustrates majoritarian self-government and that is unconstrained by law. So understood, judicial activism is presumptively problematic, because it frustrates customary democratic and judicial norms.
In this essay, I address originalist and nonoriginalist responses to the presumptive problem of judicial activism in the context of Fourteenth Amendment privacy claims, including claims relating to abortion, sexual conduct, and same-sex marriage. I argue that originalism is an overrated solution, largely because current understandings of originalism, despite claims to the contrary, do not provide standards of decision that are sufficiently clear to …
Judicial Intervention In A Twenty-First Century Republic: Shuffling Deck Chairs On The Titanic?, Kristofor J. Hammond
Judicial Intervention In A Twenty-First Century Republic: Shuffling Deck Chairs On The Titanic?, Kristofor J. Hammond
Indiana Law Journal
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The American Judicial Review Quagmire: A Canadian Proposal, Caroline S. Earle
The American Judicial Review Quagmire: A Canadian Proposal, Caroline S. Earle
Indiana Law Journal
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Is There A Natural Law Right To Privacy?, Ralph F. Gaebler
Is There A Natural Law Right To Privacy?, Ralph F. Gaebler
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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The Neutrality Of Adherence To Precedent, Robert L. Birmingham
The Neutrality Of Adherence To Precedent, Robert L. Birmingham
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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Book Review. Wechsler, H., Principles, Politics, And Fundamental Law, Ralph F. Fuchs
Book Review. Wechsler, H., Principles, Politics, And Fundamental Law, Ralph F. Fuchs
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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Our Dual Form Of Government, Hugh Evander Willis
Our Dual Form Of Government, Hugh Evander Willis
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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