Common Law Cognition and Judicial Appointment

Authors

  • J. E. Penner

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29173/alr1429

Abstract

This article explores jurisprudential issues relating to the appointment of judges in common law jurisdictions. After examining three competing versions of the legitimacy and limits of judicial law- making — namely, the positivist, the theoretical/Dworkinian, and what the author terms the "common law cognitive" — the author proposes that judges of constitutional courts should be popularly elected from among the citizenry at large and that judges of non-constitutional courts should be drawn from the legal profession though a process of peer assessment.

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Published

2000-11-01

Issue

Vol 38, No 3: Special Issue: Judicial Appointments

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Articles

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