Franck Political Questions Judicial Answers

Does the Rule of Law Apply to Foreign Affairs?
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2073-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 212 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Franck, Thomas M.

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Ch. 1 Introduction 3

Ch. 2 How Abdication Crept into the Judicial Repertory 10

The Faustian Pact 10

Double-Entry Bookkeeping 21

Ch. 3 Two Principled Theories of Constitutionalism 31

Ch. 4 Prudential Reasons for Judicial Abdication 45

The Factual Evidence Is Too Difficult 46

No Applicable Legal Standards 48

Too Much at Stake 50

Judges Cannot Compel the Executive 58

Ch. 5 When Judges Refuse to Abdicate 61

Security and Foreign-Policy Interests v. Property Rights 63

Security and Foreign-Policy Interests v. Civil Rights 76

Congressional v. Executive Powers 90

Ch. 6 Mandated Adjudication: Act of State and Sovereign Immunity 97

Act of State 98

Foreign Sovereign Immunity 101

Ch. 7 Abolishing Judicial Abdication: The German Model 107

German Judges on Whether to Decide 107

German Judges on How to Decide 116

Ch. 8 A Rule of Evidence in Place of the Political-Question Doctrine 126

Evidentiary Weight 129

Ch. 9 The Special Cases: In Camera Proceedings and Declaratory Judgments 137

The Need to Preserve Secrecy 138

The Less Confrontational Remedy: Declaratory Judgment 153

Ch. 10 Conclusions: Does the Rule of Law Stop at the Water's Edge? 156

Notes 161

Index 193