Judicial activism : an interdisciplinary approach to the American and European experiences /
Judicial activism : an interdisciplinary approach to the American and European experiences /
Luís Pereira Coutinho, Massimo La Torre, Steven D. Smith, editors.
- Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2015].
- xiv, 206 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- Section I Judicial Activism, Legal Reasoning And The Concept Of Law.- Between Nightmare and Noble Dream: Judicial Activism and Legal Theory; Massimo La Torre -- Judicial Activism: Clearing the Air and the Head; Lawrence Alexander.- Judicial Activism and 2Reason3; Steven D. Smith -- Judicial Activism and Fidelity to Law; Gonçalo de Almeida Ribeiro.- Adjudication as Grammatication: The Case of French Judicial Politics; Pierre Legrand.- Section II Judicial Activism in Perspective -- The Activist Judge -- Vanity of Vanities; James Allan -- Schmitt's Spectre and Kelsen's Promise: The Polemics on the Guardian of the Constitution; Miguel Nogueira de Brito -- Theories of Judicial Behavior and the Law: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead; Tiago Fidalgo de Freitas -- The Passive Sovereignty of the Constitutional Judge: A State Theory Approach; Luís Pereira Coutinho -- Section III Judicial Activism in Context -- The Contextual Nature of Proportionality and its Relation with the Intensity of Judicial Review; Jorge Silva Sampaio -- Politics and the Judiciary: A Naïve Step Towards the End of Judicial Policy-Making; Maria Benedita Urbano.-The Judicial Activism of the European Court of Justice; Lourenço Vilhena de FreitasCourts and European Integration; Francisco Pereira Coutinho -- Judicial Activism, Judicial Independence and Judicial Hubris: The Case of International Courts; Maimon Schwarzschild.- List of Authors.
9783319365145 (pbk)
347.014
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- Section I Judicial Activism, Legal Reasoning And The Concept Of Law.- Between Nightmare and Noble Dream: Judicial Activism and Legal Theory; Massimo La Torre -- Judicial Activism: Clearing the Air and the Head; Lawrence Alexander.- Judicial Activism and 2Reason3; Steven D. Smith -- Judicial Activism and Fidelity to Law; Gonçalo de Almeida Ribeiro.- Adjudication as Grammatication: The Case of French Judicial Politics; Pierre Legrand.- Section II Judicial Activism in Perspective -- The Activist Judge -- Vanity of Vanities; James Allan -- Schmitt's Spectre and Kelsen's Promise: The Polemics on the Guardian of the Constitution; Miguel Nogueira de Brito -- Theories of Judicial Behavior and the Law: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead; Tiago Fidalgo de Freitas -- The Passive Sovereignty of the Constitutional Judge: A State Theory Approach; Luís Pereira Coutinho -- Section III Judicial Activism in Context -- The Contextual Nature of Proportionality and its Relation with the Intensity of Judicial Review; Jorge Silva Sampaio -- Politics and the Judiciary: A Naïve Step Towards the End of Judicial Policy-Making; Maria Benedita Urbano.-The Judicial Activism of the European Court of Justice; Lourenço Vilhena de FreitasCourts and European Integration; Francisco Pereira Coutinho -- Judicial Activism, Judicial Independence and Judicial Hubris: The Case of International Courts; Maimon Schwarzschild.- List of Authors.
9783319365145 (pbk)
347.014