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The Oxford Handbook of Law and Politics Whittington, Keith E., William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics, Princeton University Kelemen, R. Daniel, Associate Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University Caldeira, Gregory A., Professor of Political Science , Ohio State University Print publication date: 2008 (this edition) Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-920842-5 Published to Oxford Handbooks Online: September 2009
8 The Judicialization of Politics doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199208425.003.0008 Ran Hirschl Abstract: What is the Judicialization of Politics? – A New Frontier: The judicialization of “Mega-politics” – Why the Judicialization of Politics? Keywords: law, politics,	Related Content in OHO 'Judicial Institutions' in The Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions 'The Judicial Process and Public Policy' in The Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions 'Judiciary' in The Oxford Handbook of British Politics 'Judicial Checks on the President' in The Oxford Handbook of the American Presidency
Ran Hirschl is Professor of Political Science and Law and Canada Research Chair in Constitutionalism, Democracy, and Development at the University of Toronto.	Ran Hirschl External web page

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I Introduction

1 The Study of Law and Politics*

II Approaches

2 Judicial Behavior*

3 Strategic Judicial Decision-making

4 Historical Institutionalism and the Study of Law

III Comparative Judicial Politics

5 The Rule of Law and Courts in Democratizing Regimes

6 The Global Spread of Constitutional Review

7 Establishing and Maintaining Judicial Independence

8 The Judicialization of Politics

9 Comparative Federalism and the Role of the Judiciary*

10 Legal and Extralegal Emergencies

IV International and Supranational Law

11 International Law and International Relations

12 The European Court and Legal Integration: An Exceptional Story or Harbinger of the Future?

13 War Crimes Tribunals

14 The Globalization of the Law

V Forms of Legal Order

15 Civil Law and Common Law: Toward Convergence?

16 Constitutionalism

17 Constitutional Law and American Politics

18 The Legal Structure of Democracy

19 Administrative Law*

20 Legislation and Statutory Interpretation

21 Informalism as a Form of Legal Ordering

VI Sources of Law and Theories of Jurisprudence

23 Rights in Legal and Political Philosophy

24 Formalism: Legal, Constitutional, Judicial

25 Feminist Theory and the Law

26 The Racial Subject in Legal Theory

VII The American Judicial Context

27 Filling the Bench

28 The U.S. Supreme Court

29 Relations among Courts

30 Litigation and Legal Mobilization

31 Legal Profession

VIII The Political and Policy Environment of Courts in the United States

32 Judicial Independence

33 Law and Regulation

34 Law as an Instrument of Social Reform

35 Criminal Justice and the Police

36 Law and Political Ideologies

37 Courts and the Politics of Partisan Coalitions*

38 Understanding Regime Change: Public Opinion, Legitimacy, and Legal Consciousness

IX Interdisciplinary Approaches to Law and Politics

39 Law and Society

40 The Analysis of Courts in the Economic Analysis of Law

41 Psychology and the Law

42 Law and History

X Old and New

43 The Path of the Law in Political Science: De-centering Legality from Olden Times to the Day before Yesterday

44 Reflections about Judicial Politics

45 Law and Politics: The Problem of Boundaries

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