Foreword

Preface

Introduction
KATE MALLESON

PART ONE: APPOINTING JUDGES IN ESTABLISHED DEMOCRACIES

The Scottish Judicial Appointments Board: New Wine in Old Bottles?
ALAN PATERSON

The New Judicial Appointments Commission in England and Wales: New Wine in New Bottles?
KATE MALLESON

Judicial Appointments in Post-Charter Canada: A System in Transition
F.L. MORTON

Legal Controversies over Federal Judicial Selection in the United States: Breaking the Cycle of Obstruction and Retribution over Judicial Appointments
MICHAEL C. TOLLEY

Judicial Appointments in New Zealand: If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well it were done openly and directly
JAMES ALLAN

‘The judicial whisper goes around’: Appointment of Judicial Officers in Australia
ELIZABETH HANDSLEY

Merit Selection and Diversity in the Dutch Judiciary
LENY E. DE GROOT-VAN LEEUWEN

Judicial Selection in Italy: A Civil Service Model with Partisan Results
MARY L. VOLCANSEK

The Selection of Judges in France: Searching for a New Legitimacy
DORIS MARIE PROVINE and ANTOINE GARAPON

The Selection Process of Constitutional Court Judges in Germany
CHRISTINE LANDFRIED

PART TWO: APPOINTING THE JUDGES OF INTERNATIONAL COURTS

Judicial Selection for International Courts: Towards Common Principles and Practices
RUTH MACKENZIE and PHILLIPE SANDS

PART THREE: APPOINTING JUDGES IN NEW DEMOCRACIES AND TRANSITIONAL STATES

Judicial Appointments and Promotions in Israel: Constitution, Law and Politics
ELI M. SALZBERGER

The Politics of Judicial Selection in Egypt
MAHMOUD M. HAMAD

Judicial Selection in Post-Apartheid South Africa
FRANÇOIS DU BOIS

A Judiciary in Transition: Reflections on the Selection of Judges in Namibia
SUFIAN HEMED BUKURURA

Creating a Compliant Judiciary in Zimbabwe, 2000–2003
DEREK MATYSZAK

The Politics of Judicial Selection and Appointments in Japan and Ten South and Southeast Asian Countries
DAVID M. O’BRIEN

Judicial Selection in Russia: Towards Accountability and Centralization
ALEXEI TROCHEV

Improving the Quality of the Judiciary in China: Recent Reforms to the Procedures for Appointing, Promoting, and Discharging Judges
COLIN HAWES

Conclusion
PETER H. RUSSELL

Table of Cases

Bibliography

Contributors

About the Author

Kate Malleson is a professor in the Department of Law at Queen Mary, University of London.

Peter H. Russell is a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Toronto.

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