Law and Politics of Constitutional Courts: Indonesia and the Search for Judicial Heroes

ISBN-13: 9780367591748 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 312 str.

Stefanus Hendrianto

Opis

This book critically evaluates different models of judicial leadership in Indonesia to examine the impact that individual chief justices can have on the development of constitutional courts. Drawing on Greek mythology and the established idea of judicial heroes to explore the types of leadership that judges can exercise, it illustrates how Indon

Spis treści

Part I: Foundations

Introduction; 1. Theorizing Judicial Heroes;

Part II: The First Generation Court

2. The Birth of the Constitutional Court: A Joke that turned Serious; 3. A Heroic Intellectual Leadership; 4. (Un)Heroic Quasi-Weak-Form Review; 5. A Heroic Social Leadership;

Part III: The Second Generation Court

6. After the Heroic Court: The Second Generation Decline? 7. Miscarriage of Chief Justices: The Anti-Heroes; 8: A Good Hero is Hard to Find: Towards a Less Heroic Court?

Part IV: Conclusions

9. Conclusion: The "Heroic Judicial Leadership" and "Second Generation Decline" in Comparative Perspective.

O autorze

Stefanus Hendrianto is a Jesuit and legal scholar. In recent years, he served as a visiting professor at Santa Clara University School of Law and a guest scholar at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Currently, he is a scholar at Boston College, School of Theology and Ministry. He holds a PhD degree from the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle and an LLM from Utrecht University in the Netherlands, in addition to his LLB degree from Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia.