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@article{2288201,
author = {Kosař, David and Šipulová, Katarína},
article_location = {England},
article_number = {1},
doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icon/moad012},
keywords = {court-packing; legitimacy; political interference; judicial independence; democracy},
language = {eng},
issn = {1474-2640},
journal = {Icon-International Journal of Constitutional Law},
title = {Comparative court-packing},
url = {https://academic.oup.com/icon/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/icon/moad012/49802708/moad012.pdf},
volume = {21},
year = {2023}
}
TY - JOUR
ID - 2288201
AU - Kosař, David - Šipulová, Katarína
PY - 2023
TI - Comparative court-packing
JF - Icon-International Journal of Constitutional Law
VL - 21
IS - 1
SP - 80-126
EP - 80-126
PB - Oxford Univ Press
SN - 14742640
KW - court-packing
KW - legitimacy
KW - political interference
KW - judicial independence
KW - democracy
UR - https://academic.oup.com/icon/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/icon/moad012/49802708/moad012.pdf
N2 - In the wake of Donald Trump’s presidency, a fierce discussion over expanding the US Supreme Court erupted. However, the expansion of a court’s membership is just one of several court-packing techniques. Moreover, the American debate is peculiar due to the unique features of the US Supreme Court. The aim of this article is to look at court-packing from a comparative perspective, to link the debates on tinkering with courts’ composition on both sides of the Atlantic, and to bring into the conversation a diverse scholarship in the Global North and the Global South. Based on experience from other parts of the world, this article provides a new, broader definition of court-packing that includes not only expansion of the court in question, but also emptying and swapping strategies. It then discusses the typical justifications for and dangers of court-packing and provides a prospective pragmatic mid-level theory that allows us to assess whether a given court-packing plan is legitimate. It argues that the legitimacy of court-packing has two dimensions: one focusing on whether court-packing pursues a legitimate aim (ius ad bellum of court-packing) and a second dimension exploring whether court-packing itself is implemented legitimately (ius in bello of court-packing). This means that even if politicians have a “just cause” for court-packing, their actions are still limited.
ER -
KOSAŘ, David and Katarína ŠIPULOVÁ. Comparative court-packing. \textit{Icon-International Journal of Constitutional Law}. England: Oxford Univ Press, 2023, vol.~21, No~1, p.~80-126. ISSN~1474-2640. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icon/moad012.
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