About the Book
The contributions in this book address various issues pertaining to the judicialization of politics and the politicization of justice. This theme lends itself to a number of approaches that are of the highest interest to contemporary public law (e.g., the appropriateness of judicial deference to political and administrative discretion in constitutional adjudication; and judicial review of administrative action, theories, and methodologies of constitutional and statutory interpretation; and legal theory debates ranging from Hans Kelsen to Carl Schmitt, from Antonin Scalia to Ronald Dworkin; etc.). The context of transitional constitutionalism presents a number of compounded complications and interesting contradictions related to the topic. In conceptual terms, the contributions do not assume a unitary definition of the phenomenon of politicization/judicialization, instead starting from the premise that such definitions are by necessity grossly oversimplifying and therefore of limited ep