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The Politics of Judicial Selection in Ireland  provides an unprecedented analysis of the politics underlying the appointment of judges in Ireland, enlivened by a wealth of interview material, and putting the Irish experience into a broad comparative framework.

It tells the inside story of the process by which judges were chosen over the past three decades, both in cabinet and in the Judicial Appointments Advisory Board, and charts a path for future reform of judicial appointment processes in Ireland. The research is based on a large number of interviews with senior judges, current and former politicians, Attorneys-General and members of the Judicial Appointments Advisory Board. The circumstances surrounding decisions about institutional design and institutional change are reconstructed in meticulous detail, giving us an excellent insight into the significance of a complex series of events that govern the way in which judges in Ireland are chosen today.

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill is a political scientist with a research interest in political institutions and the judiciary. She completed her PhD research at the School of Politics and International Relations, UCD, and is both a IRCHSS Government of Ireland Scholar and the winner of the Basil Chubb Prize 2015 for the best politics PhD in Ireland. A barrister (and former solicitor), Dr Carroll MacNeill has worked as a lawyer in the public service, both within the Oireachtas as Legal Adviser in the Office of the Leader of Fine Gael and within Government as Special Adviser in the Department of Children and Youth Affairs and in the Department of Justice and Equality.

'A defense of the basic principles of democracy ... This book is indispensable for the makers of policy ... invaluable ... one of a kind'   Taoiseach Enda Kenny

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ISBN/EAN 9781846825972
Author Jennifer Carroll MacNeill
Publisher Four Courts Press
Publication date 27 May 2016
Format Hardback
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Jennifer Carroll MacNeill
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The Politics of Judicial Selection in Ireland  provides an unprecedented analysis of the politics underlying the appointment of judges in Ireland, enlivened by a wealth of interview material, and putting the Irish experience into a broad comparative framework.

2016 1st Edition Hardback

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