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This volume offers an in depth analysis of current issues of culture of judicial independence in comparative perspective by senior academics, judges and practitioners across jurisdictions. It deals with central topics that stand high in the academic and public discourse on the role of judges in society and in the system of government, their constitutional position, and the relations between top domestic courts and international and supra-national courts.
About the author
Shimon Shetreet holds the Greenblatt Chair of Public and International Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He is the author and editor of many books on the judiciary. He is the President of International Association of Judicial Independence and World Peace and the leader of the International Project of Judicial Independence and the Mt Scopus Standards of judicial Independence 2008. Between 1988 and 1996 he served as a Member of the Israeli Parliament, and was a cabinet minister under Yitshak Rabin and Shimon Peres. He was a Judge of the Standard Contract Court and served as a member of the Chief Justice Landau Commission on the Israeli Court System.
