Judicial activism in common law supreme courts
Dickson
Dickson, BriceContributor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2007.
This title examines how judges in the top courts of ten common law countries develop the law by devising new principles to allow innovation and to ensure that human rights are universally protected.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
This title examines how judges in the top courts of ten common law countries develop the law by devising new principles to allow innovation and to ensure that human rights are universally protected.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Comparing supreme courts / Brice Dickson -- 'Restrained activism' in the High Court of Australia / Fiona Wheeler and John Williams -- Judicial activism in the Supreme Court of Canada / Kent Roach -- The Supreme Court of India / Venkat Iyer -- The Supreme Court of Ireland / William Binchy -- Judicial activism in Israel / Eli Salzberger -- Judicial activism and New Zealand's appellate courts / Bruce Harris -- Judicial activism of a special type : South Africa's top courts since 1994 / Hugh Corder -- Judicial activism in the House of Lords 1995-2007 / Brice Dickson -- The United States of America / Mark Tushnet.
Political questions and judicial power
Courts of last resort
Appellate courts
Judicial review
Law, Politics & Government
Law, General & Comparative