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13 - Why the Legal Complex is Integral to Theories of Consequential Courts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2013

By
Terence C. Halliday
Edited by
Diana Kapiszewski ,
Gordon Silverstein  and
Robert A. Kagan
Diana Kapiszewski
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine
Gordon Silverstein
Affiliation:
Yale Law School
Robert A. Kagan
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
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Summary

A puzzle lies at the heart of the excellent treatments of courts in this volume. With important exceptions, it is the absence of a certain kind of politics. In these pages there are the distal politics of parties and dictators, insurgencies and militaries, civil society and religions, unions and the media. Mostly absent, however, are the most proximate politics to courts – the legal occupations which embed, enable, draft, litigate, implement, oppose, critique, and ally with judges and courts, a configuration of occupations captured by the concept of “the legal complex” (Halliday and Karpik 2011).

There has been a tendency in scholarship on courts in general to permit its hermetic segregation from scholarship on other legal occupations – most notably the legal profession, but also legal academics and practicing lawyers within the state or corporations (Feeley 2012). This detachment from courts in their most immediate institutional context contributes to a hollow core theory of judicial politics, a lacuna which does not properly reflect the practices of such politics either in history or in contemporaneous headlines.

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Consequential Courts
Judicial Roles in Global Perspective
 , pp. 337 - 348
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2013

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