Academic

Garoupa & Ginsburg on Judicial Councils

By Lawrence Solum

Nuno Garoupa and Tom Ginsburg (University of Illinois College of Law and University of Chicago Law School) have posted The Comparative Law and Economics of Judicial Councils (Berkley Journal of International Law (BJIL), 2008) on SSRN.  Here is the abstract:

In recent decades, many countries around the world have institutionalized judicial councils, institutions designed to enhance judicial independence and accountability. Our paper, the first comparative inquiry into this phenomenon, has two aims. First, we provide an economic theory of the formation of judicial councils and identify some of the dimensions along which they differ. Second, we discuss the national experience of several legal systems in light of our theory.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on November 12, 2008 (boomark / email).