Éditeur : Rutgers University Press | Date & Lieu : 2007, New Brunswick |
Préface : | Pages : 226 |
Traduction : | ISBN : 978-0-8135-3983-6 |
Langue : Anglais | Format : 175x250 mm |
Thème : Politique |
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A People’s History of the European Court of Human Rights Europe’s Supreme Court The exceptionality of the United States Supreme Court has long been conventional wisdom. The dean of American Court watchers, Anthony Lewis of the New York Times, once declared, “The Supreme Court of the United States is different from all other courts, past and present. It decides fundamental social and political questions that would never be put to judges in other countries.” Lewis was self-consciously echoing the French traveler Alexis de Tocqueville, who was amazed by the reach of America’s judges in his own day. The social role of U.S. law was indeed distinctive in the 1830s, when Tocqueville published Democracy in America, and even more so in 1964, when Lewis wrote Gideon’s Trumpet, his classic tale of a simple man fighting for his rights. But the United States has changed since the civil rights era, and so has the world. Memo to Anthony Lewis and Alexis de Tocqueville: the U.S. Supreme Court today has a peer in articulating public rights and values. Arguably, the other court is setting the pace. |
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A People’s History of
MICHAEL D. GOLDHABER is a contributing editor at The American Lawyer magazine, where he previously served as Chief European Correspondent and Senior International Correspondent. Mr. Goldhaber is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School (1997), Yale Law School (1993), and Harvard College (summa cum laude, 1990). He writes widely on legal affairs, with a focus on human rights and international arbitration. |