The Economic Fallout from Curtailing Judicial Independence - Why Tampering With Judicial Independence is an Economically Costly Strategy, in Israel and Elsewhere

The Economic Fallout from Curtailing Judicial Independence - Why Tampering With Judicial Independence is an Economically Costly Strategy, in Israel and Elsewhere Mushkat, Roda Author aut Text xx# 2023 Verfassungsblog 2023-02-13 eng The attempt to emasculate Israel's Supreme Court has drawn widespread criticism and protest, both at home and abroad. An intriguing aspect of the situation has been the opposition expressed by business interests and economic experts, who are often and perhaps wrongly believed to attach an overwhelmingly high value to efficiency, commonly achieved in an institutional environment characterized by the absence of competing centers of political power. Perhaps the most visible manifestation of the concerns and fears emanating from this source has been the open letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed by fifty-six prominent international economists, including eleven Nobel laureates, stating that judicial reform along the lines contemplated would set Israel on a course akin to that of Hungary and Poland. CC BY-SA 4.0 Mushkat, Roda judicial independence Rule of Law 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-economic-fallout-from-curtailing-judicial-independence/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20230213-233211-0 230213 10.17176/20230213-233211-0 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)