Reputation and Judicial Tactics: A Theory of National and International Courts

by Shai Dothan

Overview

This book argues that national and international courts seek to enhance their reputations through the strategic exercise of judicial power. Courts often cannot enforce their judgments and must rely on reputational sanctions to ensure compliance. One way to do this is for courts to improve their reputation for generating compliance with their judgments. When the court's reputation is increased, parties will be expected to comply with its judgments and the reputational sanction on a party that fails to comply will be higher. This strategy allows national and international courts, which cannot enforce their judgments against states and executives, to improve the likelihood that their judgments will be complied with over time. This book describes the judicial tactics that courts use to shape their judgments in ways that maximize their reputational gains.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781316621141
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	09/01/2016
Series:	Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.02(w) x 9.06(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

Shai Dothan is a senior researcher with the Global Trust Project at Tel Aviv University and an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. A theory of the reputations of courts; 3. Constraints on courts; 4. Tactics to increase courts' reputations; 5. National court case study - Israeli Supreme Court; 6. International court case study - European Court of Human Rights; 7. When compliance is irrelevant; 8. Conclusions.