Judicial activism in common law supreme courts / edited by Brice Dickson.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.

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Political questions and judicial power.

Appellate courts.

Judicial review.

Courts of last resort.

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Fiona Wheeler and John Williams

Kent Roach

Venkat Iyer

William Binchy

Eli Salzberger

Bruce Harris

Hugh Corder

Brice Dickson

Mark Tushnet. Comparing supreme courts / Restrained activism in the High Court of Australia / Judicial activism in the Supreme Court of Canada / The Supreme Court of India / The Supreme Court of Ireland / Judicial activism in Israel / Judicial activism and New Zealand's appellate courts / Judicial activism of a special type: South Africa's top courts since 1994 / Judicial activism in the House of Lords 1995-2007 / The United States of America /

This book examines the extent to which the judges in the highest courts of nine common law jurisdictions have gone about developing the law of their countries in recent years.

Table of contents and index are taken from the published work with the permission of the publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780199213290

liv, 449 p. ; 24 cm