Detailed Information on Publication Record
2013
The Least Accountable Branch
KOSAŘ, DavidBasic information
Original name
The Least Accountable Branch
Authors
KOSAŘ, David (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)
Edition
International Journal of Constitutional Law, New York, Oxford University Press, 2013, 1474-2640
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Článek v odborném periodiku
Field of Study
50500 5.5 Law
Country of publisher
United States of America
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
Impact factor
Impact factor: 0.568
RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14220/13:00067499
Organization unit
Faculty of Law
UT WoS
000320859900014
Keywords in English
judges; judicial accountability; judicial independence; rule of law; transitional justice; court presidents
Tags
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International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 3/4/2014 12:20, Mgr. Petra Georgala
Abstract
V originále
This article analyzes the concept of judicial accountability. It builds on three recent books (“Independence, Accountability, and the Judiciary” edited by Guy Canivet, Mads Andenas and Duncan Fairgrieve; “Transitional Justice, Judicial Accountability and the Rule of Law” by Hakeem Yusuf; and “Judicial Accountabilities in New Europe: From Rule of Law to Quality of Justice” by Daniela Piana) that deal with judicial accountability and suggests avenues for further research. In section 1, I briefly summarize the content and key arguments of the three recent books on judicial accountability. Section 2 focuses on the relationship between judicial accountability and the concept of accountability. Section 3 deals with the three key questions of judicial accountability: accountability of whom, to whom, and for what. Section 4 is devoted to the role of cultural factors in holding judges to account. Section 5 looks at various approaches to reckoning with the past within the judiciary and how these approaches affect post-authoritarian and post-totalitarian societies that are in the process of transition to democracy. Section 6 briefly examines the widely disputed relationship between judicial accountability and judicial independence. Section 7 identifies avenues for further research and section 8 concludes.