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Judicial Independence: Keeping Law at a Distance from Politics

In this well-researched study, University of Montreal law professor Martine Valois offers a rare perspective on the Canadian legal system, examining how the judicial function has evolved as part of a larger historical and sociological process.
Par Martine Valois (Auteur)
Éditeur: LexisNexis Canada
Langue De Publication: English
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Softcover | 280 pages

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Publié: 31 juillet 2013
ISBN/ISSN: 9780433474470
Éditeur: LexisNexis Canada

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In recent years, much has been written about judicial activism. However, very little has been written about how the judicial system has transformed itself, and the increasingly greater role judges play in creating law. In this well-researched study, University of Montreal law professor Martine Valois offers a rare perspective on our legal system, examining how the judicial function has evolved as part of a larger historical and sociological process.


Originally written in French, and winner of the 2012 Walter Owen Book Prize (awarded by the Foundation for Legal Research), this text analyzes the changes to the judicial function over time, in light of historical alterations in the organization of political powers and the making of law. Readers will find, as former Supreme Court of Canada justice Michel Bastarache has stated, "This book informs, as no other, those who would question the legitimacy of judges in their new role as law-creators."


Book Features
  • Teaches the reader about judicial independence, how it originated, and how it has evolved over the years
  • Discusses the issue of judicial activism as being the consequence of social differentiation, and not the result of appropriation of power by the judicial system
  • Explains why social differentiation is the precondition to equality under the law; it is also what makes the judicial system unaccountable to political power
  • Explains why judges enjoy independence as long as they follow nothing other than what is required by law
What Makes This Book Unique
  • Gives a complete analysis of the evolution of the Canadian legal system and of the judicial function
  • Provides a historical analysis into the changes in the role of the judiciary, linked with ideas from renowned sociologists such as: Herbert Spencer, Max Weber, Émile Durkheim, Talcott Parsons, and others
  • Puts forward a theoretical framework which helps readers understand and analyze changes to the judicial system
Who Should Read This Book
  • Judges - Helps members of the judiciary better understand and appreciate their role in the making of law
  • Legal practitioners -Enables lawyers to draft and articulate their arguments in relation to the role and functionality of the judiciary
  • Law professors and legal researchers - Helps members of the academia understand the evolution of the relationship between the judiciary, and society and government
 

Auteurs à la une

Martine Valois

Martine Valois

Me Martine Valois, Ad. E. est professeure à l’Université de Montréal. Diplômée de la Faculté de droit de l’Université de Montréal (LL.B. en 1986 et LL.D. en 2010) et de l’Université Harvard (LL.M. en 1991), elle est membre du Barreau du Québec depuis 1988. Chercheure au Centre de droit des affaires et du commerce international et conseillère académique pour l’Institut canadien d’administration à la justice, elle participe au projet ADAJ consacré au thème de l’accès au droit et à la justice. La professeure Valois est spécialiste du droit administratif et s’intéresse tout particulièrement aux institutions de l’État moderne. Elle est l’auteure de l’ouvrage L’indépendance judiciaire. La justice entre droit et gouvernement, publié par les Éditions Thémis/Schulthess Médias Juridiques en 2011 (Prix Walter-Owen, 2012). Elle est également l’auteure de l’ouvrage Judicial Independance: Keeping Law at a Distance from Politics, publié en 2013 par LexisNexis Canada et coauteure du rapport sur l’indépendance de la justice administrative (La justice administrative : entre indépendance et responsabilité. Jalons pour la création d’un régime commun des décideurs administratifs indépendants, éditions Yvon Blais, 2014).

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Table des matières

Introduction
Part I 
Title I: Theoretical Perspectives
  • Chapter 1: Sociological Analysis
  • Chapter 2: Functional Differentiation
  • Chapter 3: Social Systems
Title II: Law in Society 
  • Chapter 4: The Law's System
  • Chapter 5: Law's Legitimacy
Part II 
Title I: Law's Transformations
  • Chapter 6: Law's Differentiation
  • Chapter 7: The Development of the Modes of Lawmaking
  • Chapter 8: The Evolution of the Legal System
Title II: Forms of Law Over Time
  • Chapter 9: The Segmented Normative Order
  • Chapter 10: Roman Law
  • Chapter 11: The Beginning of Law's Territoriality
  • Chapter 12: The Learned Laws
  • Chapter 13: The Hierarchical Differentiation of Law
  • Chapter 14: The Self-Referentiality of the Law 
Part III 
Title I: The Administration of Justice in The Western Legal Tradition
  • Chapter 15: The Judicial Function of Law in Pre-Modernity
  • Chapter 16: The Judicial Function in the Medieval State
  • Chapter 17: The Differentiation of the Administration of Justice in Modernity
Title II: The Judicial Function Between Law And Government
  • Chapter 18: Law, Politics and Separation of Powers 
  • Chapter 19: The Bureaucratization of the Judiciary
  • Chapter 20: The Place of the Judicial System
  • Chapter 21: The Judicial Procedures of the Differentiated Law
  • Chapter 22: Formal Justice under Tension
  • Chapter 23: Judicial independence
 

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