Beyond the Gavel: Political Personalism in the Judiciary and a New Classification of Apex Courts.

• In Event: Comparative Law and Courts

Brief Overview

This paper establishes a new measure for analyzing the impact of political personalism in apex courts through a wide comparative lens, showing how courts vary in their levels of centralized personalism, decentralized personalism, and collegialism.

Author

• Erin Sara Petersen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem