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Rescuing Judicial Accountability From The Realm Of Political Rhetoric, Charles Gardner Geyh
Rescuing Judicial Accountability From The Realm Of Political Rhetoric, Charles Gardner Geyh
Case Western Reserve Law Review
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Judicial Accountability In A Time Of Legal Realism, William P. Marshall
Judicial Accountability In A Time Of Legal Realism, William P. Marshall
Case Western Reserve Law Review
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Judging, Politics, And Accountability: A Reply To Charles Geyh, Susan Bandes
Judging, Politics, And Accountability: A Reply To Charles Geyh, Susan Bandes
Case Western Reserve Law Review
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Symposium - Judicial Independence And Judicial Accountability: Searching For The Right Balance - "Atrocious Judges" And "Odious" Courts Revisited, Robert N. Strassfeld
Symposium - Judicial Independence And Judicial Accountability: Searching For The Right Balance - "Atrocious Judges" And "Odious" Courts Revisited, Robert N. Strassfeld
Case Western Reserve Law Review
No abstract provided.
The "Constitution Restoration Act" And Judicial Independence: Some Observations, Mark Tushnet
The "Constitution Restoration Act" And Judicial Independence: Some Observations, Mark Tushnet
Case Western Reserve Law Review
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Rescuing Judicial Accountability From The Realm Of Political Rhetoric, Charles G. Geyh
Rescuing Judicial Accountability From The Realm Of Political Rhetoric, Charles G. Geyh
Articles by Maurer Faculty
The article examines the threat to judicial independence from political calls for more judicial accountability. The author begins by defining judicial accountability and discussing its purposes before breaking the concept down into three categories: institutional accountability, behavioral accountability, and decisional accountability. This process reveals that in the judicial accountability family, there is but one discrete sub-species, situated in the decisional accountability genus, that does not further accountability's proper purpose and is therefore conceptually problematic: direct political accountability for competent and honest judicial decision-making error that the politicians desire and a serious threat to judicial independence. The critical question becomes one …