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@article{1479897,
author = {Kosař, David and Blisa, Adam},
article_location = {Frankfurt am Main},
article_number = {7},
keywords = {court presidents; judicial governance; court president power index},
language = {eng},
issn = {2071-8322},
journal = {German Law Journal},
title = {Court Presidents: The Missing Piece in the Puzzle of Judicial Governance},
url = {https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/german-law-journal/article/court-presidents-the-missing-piece-in-the-puzzle-of-judicial-governance/A628AC11E64CB9B5A49514367FD5F4CC},
volume = {19},
year = {2018}
}
TY - JOUR
ID - 1479897
AU - Kosař, David - Blisa, Adam
PY - 2018
TI - Court Presidents: The Missing Piece in the Puzzle of Judicial Governance
JF - German Law Journal
VL - 19
IS - 7
SP - 2031-2076
EP - 2031-2076
PB - Goethe University Frankfurt
SN - 20718322
KW - court presidents
KW - judicial governance
KW - court president power index
UR - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/german-law-journal/article/court-presidents-the-missing-piece-in-the-puzzle-of-judicial-governance/A628AC11E64CB9B5A49514367FD5F4CC
L2 - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/german-law-journal/article/court-presidents-the-missing-piece-in-the-puzzle-of-judicial-governance/A628AC11E64CB9B5A49514367FD5F4CC
N2 - The aim of this paper is to provide a new comprehensive understanding of roles of court presidents in judicial governance in Europe. It argues that in order to better understand the role of court presidents in comparative perspective it is necessary to unpack their power into smaller components that can be analyzed separately. We define seven such components: judicial career, jurisprudential, administrative, financial, ambassadorial, and media power, and ancillary powers as a residual category. Subsequently, we zero in on 13 European jurisdictions and rate them according to the strength of their court presidents’ powers. By doing so we are developing a Court President Power Index. Based on this Index we question the claim that Western court presidents are always weaker than their Eastern European counterparts and argue that powers of court presidents diverge both within Western Europe and within Eastern Europe, and hence it is difficult to draw the easy line along the West/East axis on this ground. Finally, we problematize our Court President Power Index and show that powers in the meaning of faculty do not necessarily translate into influence since various contingent circumstances (such as the length of court presidents’ terms of office, information asymmetry, the structure of the judiciary, the existence of competing judicial self governance bodies, the role of individuals, the proximity of court presidents to political leaders, the legal profession, legal culture, and the political environment) affect to what extent court presidents may exploit their powers in practice.
ER -
KOSAŘ, David and Adam BLISA. Court Presidents: The Missing Piece in the Puzzle of Judicial Governance. \textit{German Law Journal}. Frankfurt am Main: Goethe University Frankfurt, 2018, vol.~19, No~7, p.~2031-2076. ISSN~2071-8322.
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