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After the Judicial Revolution

How Regime Politics Constituted and Constrained the Gleeson Court

Rebecca Gill, Jason Pierce (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2026
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4724-6882-6 (ISBN)

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Over the last thirty years, supreme courts across the common law world have been undergoing revolutionary changes in their roles and responsibilities and a concomitant global expansion of judicial power and politicization of courts. While much has been written about the events leading up to these, this book fills a gap in the literature by exploring the aftermath of such revolutionary change. The focus of the work is the judicial revolution that came to Australia’s High Court in the late 1980s and 1990s under the leadership of Chief Justice Anthony Mason and the post-revolution retrenchment that occurred during the chief justiceship of Murray Gleeson. Many expected Chief Justice Gleeson’s appointment to the High Court would mark a turning point away from the highly politicized, deeply controversial 'activist' jurisprudence of the Mason Court with a minimalist jurisprudence that was more grounded in black letter law, and more deferential to parliament and the executive. The authors use the regime politics model to allow analysis of how a court of final appeal tends to operate within the broader political system, including how it exercises judicial power and what happens when its decisions and methods run counter or challenge the governing coalition. It also enables assessment of where and how changes occur in substantive law, workload, and interactions with other branches. Ultimately, the book affirms the claims of regime politics scholarship that courts cannot stray for long from the dominant political regime’s values and commitments, lest the regime invoke its tools to bring compliance.

Rebecca Gill is assistant professor of political science at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA. She coded the High Court of Australia cases for the National Science Foundation-funded High Courts Judicial Database, which consists of over thirty years of data for 10 countries. In addition to her work analyzing the High Court, she also studies judicial decision-making and institutions in the American states and cross-nationally. She has published widely on issues relating to judicial decision-making. Jason Pierce is associate professor of political science and interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Dayton, USA. His research focuses on the comparative study of courts and constitutional rights, particularly the Australian system. He is the author of books and numerous journal articles on courts and constitutional rights. David L. Weiden is assistant professor of Political Science at Metropolitan State University of Denver, USA. His work examines the comparative study of judicial systems, and he has previously published work on the high courts of Australia, Canada, and Northern Ireland.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	5.1.2026
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-4724-6882-1 / 1472468821
ISBN-13	978-1-4724-6882-6 / 9781472468826
Zustand	Neuware