We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
from International Influences
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 October 2023
This chapter examines the arrangements for foreign judges in domestic courts of East Timor. Building on semi-structured interviews with Timorese judges and lawyers, foreign judges, United Nations Development Programme professionals and field observations, it engages with questions of why foreign judges were introduced as part of state-building initiatives and how they assisted Timorese judicial actors in strengthening judicial independence. The chapter, at the outset, provides a ‘thick description’ of the challenges that foreign and local judges had to traverse to strengthen the role of the judiciary locally. Relying on data from the field, it problematises the tensions between pursuing ‘ideal’ transnational standards of judicial independence and what may be ‘ideal’ for establishing the authority and legitimacy of courts in a state that is in transition. The chapter also highlights the shifting influence of foreign judges in East Timor.
To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure no-reply@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.
Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.
Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.
