Fighting for Justice

Common Law and Civil Law Judges: Threats and Challenges

Editor(s) Elizabeth Gibson-Morgan

Language: English

Genre(s): Social Policy and Law

Series: International Law

  • June 2021 · 272 pages ·216x138mm

  • · Hardback - 9781786837462
  • · eBook - pdf - 9781786837479
  • · eBook - epub - 9781786837486

This is a time when the rule of law is seriously challenged. Some governments threaten deliberately to break the law, while the independence of justice is jeopardised by unrelenting pressure from both the executive and the media. This book aims at contributing to restoring trust in judges as custodians of the law and justice, through a comparison between Civil and Common Law countries. It offers a rare opportunity to gather the expertise of eminent judges and legal authorities from five different countries, providing a unique insight into their work and the way they deliver justice based on their respective professional experience and practice of the law. Far from being a highly technical debate between experts, however, the book is accessible to students and the general public and raises important contemporary legal issues that involve them both as citizens, with justice as a shared aspiration, and a common attachment to the rule of law.

Author(s): Elizabeth Gibson-Morgan

Elizabeth Gibson-Morgan is Professor-elect in Law and Languages at the University of Tours, and at the Bordeaux Law School in France, and is Senior Research Fellow in Constitutional Law at King’s College, London. Her current research is on House of Lords reform, devolution, the UK Supreme Court and the codification of the British Constitution.

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