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Pathways to Judicial Power in Transitional States: Perspectives from African CourtsRachel L Ellett *Abingdon / New York, Routledge, 2013. 244 pp. Hardback £85.00; $145.00, ISBN 978-0-415-69390-5

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2015

Mark Fathi Massoud
Mark Fathi Massoud*
Affiliation:
Politics Department and Legal Studies Program, University of California, Santa Cruz Email: mmassoud@ucsc.edu
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Journal of African Law , Volume 60 , Issue 1 , February 2016 , pp. 170 - 172
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References

1 AM Bickel The Least Dangerous Branch: The Supreme Court at the Bar of Politics (1962, Bobbs-Merrill).

2 RA Cichowski The European Court and Civil Society: Litigation, Mobilization and Governance (2007, Cambridge University Press).

3 T Ginsburg Judicial Review in New Democracies: Constitutional Courts in East Asia (2003, Cambridge University Press).

4 T Moustafa The Struggle for Constitutional Power: Law, Politics, and Economic Development in Egypt (2007, Cambridge University Press).

5 G Helmke and J Rios-Figueroa (eds) Courts in Latin America (2011, Cambridge University Press).

6 R Ellett Pathways to Judicial Power in Transitional States: Perspectives from African Courts (2013, Routledge) at 11.

7 Id at 46.

8 Id at 3 and 47.

9 Id at 50.

10 Id at 57.

11 Id at 155.

12 See, for example, Y Dezalay and B Garth Asian Legal Revivals: Lawyers in the Shadow of Empire (2010, University of Chicago Press).

13 Ellett Pathways to Judicial Power at 9.

14 Id at 206–08.