Judicial Activism

Introduction.- Section I Judicial Activism, Legal Reasoning And The Concept Of Law.- Between Nightmare and Noble Dream: Judicial Activism and Legal Theory; Massimo La Torre.- Judicial Activism: Clearing the Air and the Head; Lawrence Alexander.- Judicial Activism and "Reason"; Steven D. Smith.- Judicial Activism and Fidelity to Law; Gonçalo de Almeida Ribeiro.- Adjudication as Grammatication: The Case of French Judicial Politics; Pierre Legrand.- Section II Judicial Activism in Perspective.- The Activist Judge - Vanity of Vanities; James Allan.- Schmitt's Spectre and Kelsen's Promise: The Polemics on the Guardian of the Constitution; Miguel Nogueira de Brito.- Theories of Judicial Behavior and the Law: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead; Tiago Fidalgo de Freitas.- The Passive Sovereignty of the Constitutional Judge: A State Theory Approach; Luís Pereira Coutinho.- Section III Judicial Activism in Context.- The Contextual Nature of Proportionality and its Relation with the Intensity of Judicial Review; Jorge Silva Sampaio.- Politics and the Judiciary: A Naïve Step Towards the End of Judicial Policy-Making; Maria Benedita Urbano.-The Judicial Activism of the European Court of Justice; Lourenço Vilhena de FreitasCourts and European Integration; Francisco Pereira Coutinho.- Judicial Activism, Judicial Independence and Judicial Hubris: The Case of International Courts; Maimon Schwarzschild.- List of Authors.