Selecting Europe's Judges A Critical Review of the Appointment Procedures to the European Courts

by Bobek, Michal

• ISBN13: 9780198727781
• ISBN10: 019872778X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-05-12
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Michal Bobek, Professor of European Law, College of Europe, Bruges, and, Research Fellow, Institute of European and Comparative Law, University of Oxford Faculty of Law

Michal Bobek is Professor of European Law, College of Europe, Bruges, and research fellow, Institute of European and Comparative Law, University of Oxford Faculty of Law. He previously worked as legal secretary to the President of the Supreme Administrative Court, where he also headed the Research and Documentation Department of the Court.

Table of Contents

Prologue:. The Changing Nature of Selection Procedures to the European Courts, Michal Bobek
1. Not Quite the Bed that Procrustes Built: Dissecting the System for Selecting Judges at the Court of Justice of the European Union, Henri de Waele
2. Judicial Performance, Membership, and Design at the Court of Justice, Damian Chalmers
3. Selecting European Union's Judges: The Practice of the Article 25 Panel, Jean-Marc Sauve
4. The Real Test - How to Contribute to a Better Justice: The Experience of the Civil Service Tribunal, Georges Vandersanden
5. (S)electing Judges for Strasbourg: A (Dis)appointing Process?, Koen Lemmens
6. Selecting Strasbourg Judges: A Critique, David Kosar
7. On the Democratic Legitimacy of Europe's Judges: A Principled and Comparative Reconstruction of the Selection Procedures, Armin von Bogdandy and Christoph Krenn
8. Can Judicial Selection Secure Judicial Independence? Constraining State Governments in Selecting International Judges, Aida Torres Perez
9. How Transparent is Transparent Enough? Balancing Access to Information versus Privacy in European Judicial Selections, Alberto Alemanno
10. Spillovers in Selecting Europe's Judges: Will the Criterion of Gender Equality Make it to Luxembourg?, Bilyana Petkova
11. Selection, Appointment, and Legitimacy: A Political Perspective, Daniel Kelemen
12. The Legitimization Strategies of European Courts: The Case of the European Court of Human Rights, Mikael Rask Madsen
Epilogue:. Finding the European Hercules, Michal Bobek