Rose-Ackerman, Susan2019-09-252019-09-252011-04-1820079780521700702http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/177820"Judges and other court personnel need to be able to make decisions free from interference from the state and the private sector. If they are motivated to ingratiate themselves with an authority with influence over their careers, or to top up their earnings with money from one of the parties to a case, the judicial process will have been corrupted. The independence of the judiciary is therefore crucial to its effectiveness. But independence is not enough. A fair judiciary must also be subject to mechanisms that hold it accountable to the people. The challenge is to design appropriate institutional structures and legal culture that uphold the independence, impartiality and integrity of the judiciary, while rendering it answerable for its decisions. Susan Rose-Ackerman explores how different judicial models grapple with this challenge and sketches out the typical vulnerabilities in civil and common law systems. Stefan Voigt shows that in designing institutional structures it is not sufficient to write judicial independence into statute books – judges and court staff need to be independent in practice. Roy Schotland considers the widespread US system of electing judges to office, and asks whether they are unduly influenced by the knowledge that a particular company or individual donated money to their campaigns. Tom Blass discusses President Putin’s reform of the Russian court system and looks at the pressure to which judicial appointees are subjected, as well as the nature of corruption in Russia’s judiciary. Gugulethu Moyo ends by describing executive assaults on the independence of the Zimbabwean judiciary, especially in regard to the country’s controversial land reform programme."(pg 15)Pages: 25engWith permission of the license/copyright holderpolitical ethicsdemocracyPolitical ethicsEthics of political systemsEthics of lawRights based legal ethicsPeace ethicsGovernance and ethicsDevelopment ethicsBook chapter