This panel will examine the role of chief justices in semi-democratic judicial systems. The global expansion of judicial power has seen a concomitant expansion of court presidents‘ powers. But to date there is no systematic efforts to compare or theorize the new powers and roles of these judicial leaders and their effects on judicial empowerment....
Tag: <span>Björn Dressel</span>
Megapolitical Cases and the Constitutional Court of Indonesia: An Empirical Analysis (2003-2017)
Indonesia’s Constitutional Court is considered as one of Asia’s most activist courts. In this paper we investigate empirically the determinants of judicial behaviour at the Constitutional Court of Indonesia in the period 2003-2017. The paper draws on a unique data set of 80 high profile political cases complemented by data on the socio-biographic profiles of...