Law, Politics, and the Erosion of Legitimacy in the Delaware Courts
In: New York Law School Law Review, Band 55, Heft 2
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In: New York Law School Law Review, Band 55, Heft 2
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In: European journal of risk regulation: EJRR ; at the intersection of global law, science and policy, Band 9, Heft 1, S. 66-78
ISSN: 2190-8249
AbstractTaking the Urgenda case on climate change liability as an example, this article researches the more general question into the legitimacy of risk regulation by civil courts. Which principles determine the legitimacy of a civil court's participation, especially in the domain of societal risk regulation? The central claim is that these principles concern (amongst many other things) the position of the court, the tools of the court, and the attitude of the court. In other words, they have their source in constitutional law, civil (procedural) law, and professional ethics respectively. This claim is substantiated by an analysis of these principles, their interpretation, and the way they contribute to a normative/theoretical framework for the assessment of the legitimacy of judicial rulings.
In: American politics research, Band 29, Heft 6, S. 566-591
ISSN: 1532-673X
In: Studies on international courts and tribunals
More and more environmental cases are being heard and decided by international courts and tribunals which lack special environmental competence. This situation raises fundamental questions of legitimacy of the environmental practice of international courts. This book addresses inter alia questions of who has legal standing to bring an environmental claim before an international court, on which legal norms is the case decided and whether judges have the necessary expertise to adjudicate environmental cases of often complex nature. It analyses which challenges international courts face, which possibilities they have and which advances international judicial practice has been able to make in protecting the environment. Through the prism of legitimacy important insights emerge as to whether international courts and tribunals are fit for addressing some of the most pressing global challenges of our time.
In: Political research quarterly: PRQ ; official journal of the Western Political Science Association and other associations
ISSN: 1938-274X
In examining public evaluations of governing institutions, are job approval and legitimacy related? This question has dominated scholarship on Supreme Court legitimacy for decades. Conventional wisdom suggests that specific support (e.g., job approval) and diffuse support (e.g., legitimacy) are independent. Specific support captures short-term orientations based on policy alignment with the Court. Legitimacy is a long-term perspective reflecting more fundamental support for the Court as a governing institution. We challenge the paradigm that job approval and legitimacy are largely unrelated concepts. Specifically, we employ a variety of statistical techniques and panel data to show that changes in legitimacy are a direct effect of changes in public approval. Salient decisions and Court vacancies directly shape approval and indirectly shape legitimacy through their effects on approval. Longitudinal analysis confirms that changes in job approval precede and predict changes in legitimacy. These results suggest that the Court needs public approval, and its public approval is rooted in outcome-oriented perceptions of its decisions and membership. Further, sustained low levels of approval will eventually erode legitimacy and limit the Court's influence over policy. Thus, like the outwardly political executive and legislative branches, it is important for the Court to build political capital through job approval.
In: The Forum: a journal of applied research in contemporary politics, Band 20, Heft 1, S. 87-126
ISSN: 1540-8884
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It is widely agreed that dissatisfaction with Supreme Court decisions harms the Court's standing among the public. However, we do not yet know how or why Court performance affects legitimacy. We examine the role that mass perceptions of the Supreme Court's institutional nature—particularly how "political" it is—plays in assessments of its legitimacy. We find that policy disagreement with Supreme Court decisions causes individuals to view that decision, and the Court itself, as being political in nature. We then show that the more political people think the Court is, the less legitimate they consider it to be. In this way, we show that policy disagreement with decisions strongly and directly reduces Court legitimacy.
In: IBFD Doctoral Series; Vol. 31. IBFD, 2014.
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In: Democratic Legitimacy in the European Union and Global Governance, S. 157-189
This title, by an academic authority on international law who also appears as an advocate before the Court, examines the Statute of the Court, its procedures, conventions and practices
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In: The international & comparative law quarterly: ICLQ, Band 25, Heft 2, S. 447-448
ISSN: 1471-6895
In: Austrian review of international and European law: ARIEL, Band 20, Heft 1, S. 111-124
ISSN: 1573-6512
In: Political behavior, Band 12, Heft 4, S. 363-384
ISSN: 1573-6687
In: International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique, Band 28, S. 603–626
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