Binding: Paperback
Description: Judges are society's elders and experts our masters and mediators. We depend on them to dispense justice with integrity deliberation and efficiency. Yet judges as Alexander Hamilton famously noted lack the power of the purse or the sword. They must rely almost entirely on their reputations to secure compliance with their decisions obtain resources and maintain their political influence. In Judicial Reputation Nuno Garoupa and Tom Ginsburg explain how reputation is not only an essential quality of the judiciary as a whole but also of individual judges. Perceptions of judicial systems around the world range from widespread admiration to utter contempt and as judges participate within these institutions some earn respect while others are scorned. Judicial Reputation explores how judges respond to the reputational incentives provided by the different audiences they interact with lawyers politicians the media and the public itself and how institutional structures mediate these interactions. The judicial structure is best understood not through the lens of legal culture or tradition but through the economics of information and reputation. Transcending those conventional lenses Garoupa and Ginsburg employ their long - standing research on the latter to examine the fascinating effects that governmental interactions multicourt systems extrajudicial work and the international rule - of - law movement have had on the reputations of judges in this era.
Title: Judicial Reputation A Comparative Theory
Author(s): Ginsburg Tom
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226478708
Pages: 286 Pages
Publication Date: 3/22/2017
Category: International Law