Judicial deliberations: a comparative analysis of judicial transparency and legitimacy

by Lasser, Mitchel de S.-O.-L'E

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Full title :Judicial deliberations : a comparative analysis of judicial transparency and legitimacy / Mitchel de S.-O.-L'E. Lasser.

Summary

"Judicial Deliberations" compares how and why the European Court of Justice, the French Cour de cassation and the US Supreme Court offer different approaches for generating judicial accountability and control, judicial debate and deliberation, and ultimately judicial legitimacy. Examining the judicial argumentation of the United States Supreme Court and of the French Cour de cassation, the book first reorders the traditional comparative understanding of the difference between French civil law and American common law judicial decision-making. It then uses this analysis to offer the first detailed comparative examination of the interpretive practice of the European Court of Justice. Lasser demonstrates that the French judicial system rests on a particularly unified institutional and ideological framework founded on explicitly republican notions of meritocracy and managerial expertise. Law-making per se may be limited to the legislature; but significant judicial normative administration is entrusted to State selected, trained, and sanctioned elites who are policed internally through hierarchical institutional structures. The American judicial system, by contrast, deploys a more participatory and democratic approach that reflects a more populist vision. Shunning the unifying, controlling, and hierarchical French structures, the American judicial system instead generates its legitimacy primarily by argumentative means. American judges engage in extensive debates that subject them to public scrutiny and control. The ECJ hovers delicately between the institutional/argumentative and republican/democratic extremes. On the one hand, the ECJ reproduces the hierarchical French discursive structure on which it was originally patterned. On the other, it transposes this structure into a transnational context of fractured political and legal assumptions. This drives the ECJ towards generating legitimacy by adopting a somewhat more transparent argumentative approach.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2004.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2004.

The Physical Object

Description:382 pages ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0199274126, 9780199274123
oclc:ocm56539522
LC Classification:K7624.A9
Dewey Decimal:347.4/012

The French bifurcation -- The American unification -- The European Union -- Similarity and difference -- France : how is the discursive bifurcation maintained? -- The ECJ : the French bifurcation reworked -- The sliding scales -- Apples and oranges -- On judicial transparency, control, and accountability -- On judicial debate, deliberation, and legitimacy.

Subjects

Analyse comparative Cour de justice des Communautés europée… Cours constitutionnelles Court of Justice of the European Commun… Entraide judiciaire internationale Etats-Unis d'Amérique États-Unis., Supreme Court Europäischer Gerichtshof European Union countries Europese Unie France France., Cour de cassation Frankreich, Cour de Cassation Gerichtsverfassung Judicial assistance Judicial process Judicial process -- European Union coun… Judicial process -- France Judicial process -- United States Juridictions d'instance