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The judicialization of politics in Pakistan Charles H. Kennedy In its 63-year independence Pakistan has had a very complicated and fluid constitutional history (see, e.g., Khan 2001 and Newberg 1995). It has had five formal constitutions, one inherited at independence (the Government of India Act of 1935, modified by the . . . Read more
From judicialization to politicization of the judiciary The Philippine case Alejandro N. Ciencia, Jr. Introduction The drafters of the 1987 Constitution saw creation of an independent and empowered judiciary as Philippine society’s main defense against authoritarianism and corruption. For the delegates to the post-Marcos 1986 Constitutional Commission, if the goals . . . Read more
Thailand Judicialization of politics or politicization of the judiciary? Björn Dressel Introduction Although a variety of patterns of judicialization can be identified in Southeast Asia, arguably it is in Thailand that the judiciary has been most formidably transformed. Pulled into the political fray most recently during the crisis that has . . . Read more
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015An VerscurenThe Great Council of Malines in the 18th centuryStudies in the History of Law and Justice310.1007/978-3-319-09638-4_5 5. Closing Time: The ‘Fortunes’ of the Great Council at the Turn of the Century An Verscuren1 (1) Department of History, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium An Verscuren Email: An.Verscuren@kuleuven.be 5.1 Introduction . . . Read more
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015An VerscurenThe Great Council of Malines in the 18th centuryStudies in the History of Law and Justice310.1007/978-3-319-09638-4_6 6. Conclusion An Verscuren1 (1) Department of History, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium An Verscuren Email: An.Verscuren@kuleuven.be 6.1 An Instrument of State Formation? 6.2 Superior Courts: Agencies of Change or Preservation? 6.3 . . . Read more
Littoral Readings When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which he would not have felt himself entitled to assume had he professed to be writing a Novel. The latter . . . Read more
Polarity Two forces should be conceived which counteract each other by their essential nature; … these forces should be assumed to be both alike infinite, both alike indestructible. The counteraction then of the two assumed forces does not depend on their meeting from opposite directions; the power which acts in . . . Read more
Thirroul of Law The essence of liberalism is negotiation, a cautious half measure in the hope that the definitive dispute, the decisive bloody battle, can be transformed into a parliamentary debate and permit the decision to be suspended forever in an everlasting discussion.1 – Carl Schmitt, Political Theology We want . . . Read more
Reality and Therapy in the Novel Discourse in the novel is dialogized, permeated with laughter, irony, humor, elements of self-parody and finally – this is the most important thing – the novel inserts into these other genres an indeterminacy, a certain semantic open-endedness, a living contact with unfinished, still-evolving and . . . Read more
How Kangaroo Rewrote Lawrence The artist usually sets out – or used to – to point a moral and to adorn a tale. The tale, however, points the other way, as a rule. Two blankly opposing morals, the artist’s and the tale’s. Never trust the artist. Trust the tale.1 – . . . Read more