Judicial Independence and Human Rights in Autocracies

• In Event: Authoritarian Politics and Democratic Backsliding

Brief Overview

Develops a framework to explain why dictatorships benefit from judiciaries that restrict the government's use of coercion, thereby addressing the contradiction between the function of independent judiciaries and their institutional origins.

Authors

• Mehdi Shadmehr, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy

• Raphael Boleslavsky, University of Miami

• Tom Ginsburg, University of Chicago Law School