Thomas Ginsburg, Tom Ginsburg

Judicial Review in New Democracies

Constitutional Courts in Asian Cases

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines three countries in Asia to determine why new democracies adopt judicial review.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780521817158
• ISBN-10: 0521817153
• Artikelnr.: 29337220

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Notes on usage
Introduction: the decline and fall of parliamentary sovereignty
1. Why judicial review?
2. Constituting judicial power
3. Building judicial power
4. Courts in new democracies
5. Confucian constitutionalism? The grand justices of the Republic of China
6. Distorting democracy? The constitutional court of Mongolia
7. Rule by law or rule of law? The constitutional court of Korea
8. Conclusion: comparing constitutional courts
Bibliography
Index.