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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]

Judges at Constitutional Courts / Supreme Courts

Marie Gren

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Encyclopedia entries
Product:
Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]
Article last updated:
October 2021

From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 11 December 2024

Subject(s):
Constitutions and international law — Judicial review — Constitutional courts/supreme courts — Supranational constitutional courts — Terms of office of judges — Judicial independence — Judicial power — Selection of judges

General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
Managing Editor: Martina Mantovani

1 This article explores how judges at constitutional and supreme courts are able to perform their function throughout their professional life. The focus will be on judges sitting at the most influential courts in the world. The level of influence is measured following three main criteria (Gardbaum (2018)). A first indicator of a court’s importance is the use of comparative law precedents by other constitutional judges (for the use of foreign precedents by constitutional courts see, generally, Groppi and Ponthoreau; precedent). The Federal Constitutional Court of...
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