Who Is to Judge?: The Perennial Debate over Whether to Elect or Appoint America's Judges - Couverture rigide

Geyh, Charles Gardner

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0190887141 ISBN 13 : 9780190887148

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2019

Synopsis

An elected judiciary is virtually unique to the American experience and creates a paradox in a representative democracy. Elected judges take an oath to uphold the law impartially, which calls upon them to swear off the influence of the very constituencies they must cultivate in order to attain and retain judicial office. This paradox has given rise to perennially shrill and unproductive binary arguments over the merits and demerits of elected and appointed judiciaries, which this project seeks to transcend and reimagine. In Who Is to Judge?, judicial politics expert Charles Gardner Geyh exposes and explains the overstatements of both sides in the judicial selection debate. When those exaggerations are understood as such, it becomes possible to search for common ground and its limits. Ultimately, this search leads Geyh to conclude that, while appointive systems are a preferable default, no one system of selection is best for all jurisdictions at all times.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Charles Gardner Geyh is the John F. Kimberling Professor of Law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law. He has authored or edited multiple books including Courting Peril (Oxford), Understanding Civil Procedure (edited with Gene Shreve and Peter Raven-Hansen), What's Law Got to Do with It?, and When Courts and Congress Collide.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0190887141
• ISBN 13: 9780190887148
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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