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17 - The Varieties of Judicial Independence and the Judiciary’s Role in Political Reform

from Part IV - Political Liberalism and the Legal Complex

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 April 2019

By
Edward L. Rubin
Edited by
Rosann Greenspan ,
Hadar Aviram  and
Jonathan Simon
Rosann Greenspan
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
Hadar Aviram
Affiliation:
University of California, Hastings College of the Law
Jonathan Simon
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
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Summary

One of the most significant contributions that scholarship can offer is to call attention to something that everyone sees but no one has yet noticed. Malcolm Feeley’s work with Terrence Halliday, Lucien Karpik and Setsuo Miyazawa on the liberal legal complex falls into this favored category (Halliday, Karpik and Feeley 2007; Feeley and Miyazawa 2007). Judges and lawyers are among the most visible members of our society, they are known to play important roles, and their interactions are sufficiently familiar to serve as the subject matter of movies, television shows and popular fiction. But it is only recently, as a result of Feeley’s work with his colleagues, that the relationship between judges and lawyers has been recognized as a functional component of political liberalism.

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The Legal Process and the Promise of Justice
Studies Inspired by the Work of Malcolm Feeley
 , pp. 335 - 360
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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