Judicial review of administrative and executive decisions: Overreach, activism or pragmatism?

principeles and criteria of administrative judicial review in switzerland law

principles of judicial review in administrative law are basic criteria developed through judicial decisions. most of these principles have a legal value in modern administrative law. in this paper some of these principles and criteria have been studied in switzerland administrative law. in this country the legality, equality, public interest, good faith, hearing and proportionality principles h...

Administrative Management, Administrative Regulation and the Judicial Process

In discussing problems connected with what is called public administration and administrative law, confusion not infrequently results from a failure to understand at the outset what is meant by the term "administration". A distinguished authority 1 has described administration as essentially the process of translating the general into the particular, and, as one phase of this process, the task ...

Judicial Politics and Sentencing Decisions∗

Racial and gender disparities are prevalent in the criminal justice system, but the sources of these disparities remain largely unknown. This paper investigates whether judge political affiliation contributes to these disparities using data on over 500,000 federal defendants linked to sentencing judge. Exploiting random case assignment, we find that Republican appointed judges sentence black de...

Judicial Activism in State Supreme Courts: Institutional Design and Judicial Behavior

Application of Judicial Activism in Protecting The Environment: An Analysis

This article discusses and analyzes the Judicial Activism and its application in protecting environment, and steps taken by judiciary to accelerate this objective. The main objective behind this research is to identify the contemporary picture and study the nature and extent of till date developments in various environmental statuses through judicial procedure. It also analyzes the role of judi...