http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/dbb6f0e08fa3e0aa https://verfassungsblog.de/taming-the-shrew/ Taming the Shrew - Inter-Judicial Rivalry in Iraq Elbasyouny, Ahmed al Istrabadi, Feisal Amin eng 2024-08-05 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Constitutional Crisis Constitutional Review Constitutionalism Judicial Review Rechtsstaat Rechtsstaat Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 On May 30th, Iraq’s Court of Cassation (CC) issued an unprecedented decision invalidating a previous ruling by the country’s highest court in the land, the Federal Supreme Court (FSC). The CC’s judicial coup and self-aggrandizement rests on a flawed doctrinal foundation and runs counter to the judicial hierarchy set out by Iraq’s constitution.