About the Book
Trends in the Judiciary: Interviews with Judges from Across the Globe, Volume Four, provides insights into the lives, working environments, and social milieus of a select group of judges. These legal luminaries, often viewed as pedantic in their ontology, serve the crucial role of preserving the human rights of individuals. This text offers detailed data emanating from the narratives of judges who were interviewed by a wide range of academicians, from emerging and mid-career scholars to professionals and established professors. The narratives of the judges are interspersed with research data and country details in an effort to enhance the knowledge base of the readership.
Judges from Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, the Pacific Islands, New Zealand, North America, and South America all contributed to this text by sharing information on their careers as well as insights as they traversed their profession. The readership of this manuscript will experience the thought processes of judges in relation to the social, cultural, economic, and political context of their respective nations and the gender issues, subtle attempts at juridical control, dealing with powerful criminals, and the lives of judges who have other interests besides "interpreting and applying the law."
The international, cross-cultural perspectives presented in this book should be of significant interest to academics, practitioners, students, criminologists, and the criminal justice community, and those interested in comparative legal studies across the globe.
Table of Contents:
Introduction; Part I: The Caribbean; 1. Interview with The Honourable Justice M.E. Birnie Stephenson, High Court Judge, The Commonwealth of Dominica; 2. Interview with the Honorable Justice Charmaine Althea Joy Pemberton, Court of Appeal, The Judiciary of Trinidad and Tobago; Part II: North America; 3. Interview with The Honourable Justice Dr. Irving André, Superior Court Judge, Ontario, Canada. The Judiciary of Canada; 4. Interview with The Honourable Judge Staci M. Yandle, United States District Court, Southern District, Illinois. The Judiciary of the United States of America; 5. Interview with Judge Wanda K. Heard, Circuit Court for Baltimore City, USA; Part III: South America; 6. Interview with Judge Ariel Oscar Lijo, Judge in charge of the Federal Court Number 4 on Criminal Matters, Argentina; Part IV: Asia, Pacific Islands, and New Zealand; 7. Interview with His Lordship Justice Yasantha Kodagoda, President’s Counsel, Judge of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka; 8. Interview with The Honourable Mr. Deepthi Amaratunga, High Court Judge, The Judiciary of The Republic of Fiji; 9. Interview with the Honorable Chief Justice Sir Gibbs Salika, Chief Justice of Papua New Guinea; 10. Interview with the Honourable Justice Sir Joe Williams, The New Zealand Supreme Court; Part V: Africa; 11. Interview with Honourable Justice Mosunmola Akinola Dipeolu, Chief Judge, Ogun State Judiciary, Nigeria; 12. Interview with Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga, Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa; Part VI: Europe; 13. Interview with Judge Saale Laos, Judge of the Estonian Supreme Court, The Estonian Judiciary; 14. Interview with Judge Anna Maria Wesołowska, Regional Court Judge. The Judiciary of the Republic of Poland; 15. Interview with Aleksandar Blanuša, Judge and a Vice President of the Appellate Court in Kragujevac, Serbia; 16. Interview with Justice Dr. Zlatan Dežman, Senior Judge at the High Court in Maribor, Slovenia. The Judiciary of the Republic of Slovenia; 17. Interview with Sheriff Andrew M. Cubie, Glasgow Sheriff Court, the Judiciary of Scotland; 18. Interview with The Honourable Lord Tyre CBE, Judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland. The Judiciary of Scotland; Conclusion: Understanding Judges within the Criminal Justice System: A Global Snapshot; Appendix: Questionnaire and Writing Guide Used by the Contributors
