Judicial activism : an interdisciplinary approach to the American and European experiences /: an interdisciplinary approach to the American and European experiences. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Luís Pereira Coutinho, Massimo La Torre, Steven D. Smith, editors.
• Editors: Coutinho, Luis Pedro Pereira; La Torre, Massimo; Smith, Steven D
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 347.014; Law; Political questions and judicial power -- United States; Political questions and judicial power -- Europe; LAW -- Civil Procedure; LAW -- Legal Services; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Judicial Branch; Political questions and judicial power; Law -- Constitutional; Law -- International; Constitutional & administrative law; International law; Constitutional law; Europe; United States; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319185491; 3319185497; 3319185489; 9783319185484
• Related ISBNs: 9783319185484
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