The judiciary needs to be independent of outside influence, particularly from political and economic powers. But judicial independence does not mean that judges and court officials should have free rein to behave as they please. Indeed, judicial independence is founded on public trust, and to maintain it, judges must uphold the highest standards of integrity. This chapter focuses on the account...

The goal of the tort system can be reduced to one basic principle: the judiciary imposes legal responsibility on certain actors for certain conduct in order to remedy past harms and influence prospective behavior. Over the course of its existence, our judiciary has designated particular actors deserving of legal responsibility for various reasons. Guiding this imposition, however, is the will a...

This thesis examines the factors that influence perceptions of judicial corruption. A statistical analysis using data from such sources as Transparency International, the World Bank, and Freedom House demonstrates that aspects of accountability (the ability to remove judges) and transparency (freedom of the press) are only weakly related to perceptions of judicial corruption. A systematic count...

Abstract This Article explores the similarities between principles which guide judiciary nowadays and those typical for functioning of Communist justice system, particularly susceptibility to obedience requests, orders, or meeting anticipations. The habitus judges authoritarian regime has persisted until these days was main reason judicial corruption revealed in “Threema scandal.” Article’s arg...