Includes index.

Judicial power and democracy / Martin M. Shapiro -- Judicial politics versus ordinary politics : is the constitutional judge caught in the middle? / Michel Rosenfeld -- Judicialization of politics or politicization of the courts in new democracies? / Mary L. Volcansek -- European judicial appointments reform : a neo-institutional approach / Mitchel Lasser -- The law of democracy and the European Court of Human Rights / Richard H. Pildes -- Constitutional court and politics : the Polish crisis / Lech Garlicki -- Democracy, political crisis, and constitutional jurisdiction : the leading role of the Brazilian Supreme Court / Luís Roberto Barroso and Aline Osório -- Judicial power and European integration : the case of Germany / Franz C. Mayer -- Fundamental rights in Europe after opinion 2/13 : the hidden promise of mutual trust / Timothy Roes and Bilyana Petkova -- Transnational judicial interactions and the diplomatization of judicial decision-making / Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff -- Judging methods of mediating conflicts : recognizing and accomodating differences in pluralist legal regimes / Judith Resnik -- On the representativeness of constitutional courts : how to strengthen the legitimacy of rights adjudicating courts without undermining their independence / Mattias Kumm -- After the heroes have left the scene : temporality in the study of constitutional court judges / Mark Tushnet -- What exactly is political about constitutional adjudication? / Dieter Grimm -- Populism, constitutional courts, and civil society / Andrew Arato -- Judicial power in processes of transformation / Ulrich K. Preuss -- Neither legal nor illegal : today's operational spaces barely captured in law / Saskia Sassen.