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Judging the World: Law and Politics in the World’s Leading Courts. By Garry Sturgess and Philip Chubb . Sydney, London, Singapore, Toronto, Wellington: Butterworths, 1988. Pp. xiv, 573. Index. $49.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Edward Mcwhinney*
Affiliation:
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver

Abstract

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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1989

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References

1 See, e.g., Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit in der Gegenwart. Länderberichte und Rechtsvergleichung (H. Mosler ed. 1962); Federalism and Supreme Courts and the Integration of Legal Systems (E. McWhinney & P. Pescatore eds. 1973); Comparative Judicial Systems. Challenging Frontiers in Conceptual and Empirical Analysis (J. Schmidhauser ed. 1987).

2 M. Cappelletti, Judicial Review in the Contemporary World (1971); E. McWhinney, Judicial Review in the English-Speaking World (1st ed. 1956; 4th ed. 1969); E. McWhinney, Supreme Courts and Judicial Law-Making. Constitutional Tribunals and Constitutional Review (1986) (reviewed by Mauro Cappelletti in 82 AJIL 421 (1988)).

3 See the laudatory biography, J. Ely & R. Ely, Lionel Murphy. The Rule of Law (1986).

4 Commonwealth v. Tasmania, 46 Austl. L.R. 625, 721 et seq. (1983) (Murphy, J., concurring). See also M. Coper, The Franklin Dam Case (1983).

5 Nuclear Tests (Austl. v. Fr.), Interim Protection, 1973 ICJ Rep. 99 (Order of June 22); Nuclear Tests (Austl. v. Fr.), 1974 ICJ Rep. 253 (Judgment of Dec. 20).

6 The authors do acknowledge the general intellectual influence of the distinguished Australian legal theorist (twice honored by the American Society of International Law with its annual scientific award), the late Julius Stone, and also note interviews or exchanges with several of Stone’s outstanding former students and colleagues, Professors Tony Blackshield, Lyndel Prott and Upendra Baxi. As to Stone’s theories on the judicial process, judicial logic, andjudicial reasoning generally, see J. Stone, The Province and Function of Law (1946); J. Stone, Precedent and Law. Dynamics of Common Law Growth (1985).

7 Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua (Nicar. v. U.S.), Merits, 1986 ICJ Rep. 14, 259 et seq., espec. 284–87 (Judgment of June 27) (Schwebel, J., dissenting).

8 Aegean Sea Continental Shelf (Greece v. Turk.), 1978 ICJ Rep. 3 (Judgment of Dec. 19).