Title: Judicial independence : keeping law at a distance from politics /
Authors: Valois, Martine, 1963-
Year: 2013
Subjects: Judicial independence.; Judicial power; Law Philosophy; Justice, Administration of; Judicial independence Canada.
Contents: Theoretical perspectives. Sociological analysis -- Functional differentiation -- Social systems -- Law in society. The law's system -- Law's legitimacy -- Law's transformations. Law's differentiation -- The development of the modes of lawmaking -- The evolution of the legal system -- Forms of law over time. The segmented normative order -- Roman law -- The beginning of law's territoriality -- The learned laws -- The hierarchical differentiation of law -- The self-referentiality of the law -- The administration of justice in the western legal tradition. The judicial function in the pre-modern era -- The judicial function in the medieval state -- The differentiation of the administration of justice in the modern era -- The judicial function between law and government. Law, politics and separation of powers -- The bureaucratization of the judiciary -- The place of the judicial system -- The judicial procedures of differentiated law -- Formal justice under tension -- Judicial independence -- Conclusion.