Judicial Independence Under Threat

Dimitrios Giannoulopoulos holds the Inaugural Chair in Law, and is the Head of the Department of Law, at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is an Academic Bencher of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple. Dimitrios gained his PhD at the Sorbonne Law School (Paris I). He studied Law at the University of Athens, and holds postgraduate degrees in criminal law and criminal justice from the Universities of Athens, Aix-Marseille and Brunel. He has published widely on suspects' rights, evidence obtained in violation of the right to privacy and the application of ECHR jurisprudence in the domestic criminal process.Yvonne McDermott is a Professor of Law at Swansea University. She was, from 2018-2021, Principal Investigator on the OSR4Rights project, a multi-disciplinary project that examines how open source research has transformed the landscape of human rights fact-finding, funded by the ESRC. From 2022-2027, she will lead TRUE, a European Research Council Starting Grant-funded project which examines the impact of the rise of deepfakes on trust in user-generated evidence of human rights violations. She is Legal Advisor to the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) and an Associate Academic Fellow of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple.

The book is an absorbing read and deserves to attract a wide audience.

• Foreword by the Right Hon. the Lord Kerr of TonaghmoreIntroduction: The Judiciary Under Attack (and Why It Matters to Safeguard Judicial Independence)Part I: Identifying and Understanding Threats to Judicial Independence1. 'Enemies of the People': Populism's Threat to Independent Judiciaries2. The Rule of Law Across the World: A System in Crisis?3. Judicial Independence Under Threat: What is the Matter with Our Politicians?4. Understanding Judicial Independence in the Age of Outrage5. 'Enemies of the People': Article 50, the Press and Anti-JuridicalismPart II: Judicial Independence: International and Historical Perspectives6. Judicial Independence and Two Visions of American Democracy7. Is There a French Habeas Corpus? Thinking About the Control by an Independent Judicial Authority over the Deprivation of Liberty before Criminal Trials8. Judicial Independence and the Prevention of Atrocity Crimes in Myanmar9. Identifying Dangers to Democracy: Fascism, the Rule of Law and the Relevance of HistoryPart III: Judicial Independence in Context: From Criminal Justice to 'Law and Emotions' Studies and Looking to the Future of Judicial Independence10. Judicial Independence and Countering Terrorism in the UK11. The Parole Board as an Independent Judicial Body, and Challenges to its Independence12. The Judge Under Pressure: Fostering Objectivity by Abandoning the Myth of Dispassion13. Epilogue: Judicial Independence: The Need for Constant Vigilance14. Conclusion: On 'Crisis' and Threats to Judicial Independence as Constant Features in the Landscape of Judicial Activity