The Politics Of EU Judicial Support After The Arab Spring: From Independence To Efficiency

Preface......Page 5
 Contents......Page 7
 Abbreviations......Page 8
 List of Tables......Page 9
1 Promoting Justice in the Southern Mediterranean......Page 11
Judicial Independence in Western Liberal Democracies......Page 12
The Relation Between Rule of Law and Judicial Independence......Page 13
Why Is It Important for Hybrid Regimes to Build an Independent Judiciary?......Page 15
Judicial Promotion: The Role of Legal Accountability......Page 17
From Independence to Efficiency......Page 18
Going Empirical: Constructing Typologies......Page 20
Judicial Independence......Page 21
The Judicial Councils......Page 22
In Search of a European Normative Space......Page 24
The Managerial Dimension......Page 27
The Managerial Approach to Justice and Its Tools......Page 29
Technologies Shaping Judicial Institutions: Regulative Functions Calling for Legislative Changes......Page 30
A First Lingering Question......Page 32
Part 2: How Countries of North Africa Vary: The Case of Morocco and Jordan......Page 34
Before the Arab Spring, a Common Background......Page 35
Most Similar Cases: The EU Involvement in Support of Morocco and Jordan......Page 36
The Systemic Governance of the Judiciary: The Main Variance......Page 37
Morocco and Jordan: Two Different Judicial Reforms......Page 39
Morocco......Page 40
Jordan......Page 44
The Dynamic of External Influence on Domestic Judicial Reforms......Page 48
How We Got Here: Framing the Puzzle......Page 49
Change Actors and Norm Entrepreneurs......Page 53
Setting the Scene: An Internal/External Account of Change......Page 56
Empirical Strategy......Page 59
Structure of the Book......Page 60
References......Page 62
An Examination of the Nature of EU Judicial Cooperation......Page 70
The Analysis of European Discourses of Judicial Promotion......Page 73
The European Commission Official Statements on Rule of Law and Judicial Support in the Southern Mediterranean......Page 75
Independence and Efficiency Frequencies......Page 77
Towards a Model of European Judicial Support......Page 78
The European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice: Setting the Standards for a European Path of Digital Innovations?......Page 79
The ENPI/ENI Actions in Morocco and Jordan: A Comparative Overview......Page 81
A Matter of Soft Law: Judicial Epistemic Communities in the MENA Region......Page 84
The Peculiar Nature of Technical Assistance......Page 87
Programmes of Judicial Cooperation: Twinning and TAIEX......Page 89
Twinning......Page 90
TAIEX......Page 92
Conclusion......Page 94
References......Page 95
Judicial Independence, Administrative Accountabilities and the Role of Ideas......Page 99
Overview of the Domestic Reforms......Page 102
EU-Moroccan Judicial Cooperation Before 2011......Page 103
The Moroccan Driven Adoption of a High Judicial Council......Page 104
How European Inputs Are Entering Morocco’s Judicial Managerial Organization......Page 107
The French Support for an Efficient Judicial Academy......Page 109
E-Justice in Morocco: Where to Go Next?......Page 112
A First Tentative Summary of the Internal/External Model......Page 114
References......Page 116
4 Jordan: Little Steps Towards a Reformed Judiciary......Page 118
Constitutional Reforms in Jordan: The Status of the Judiciary......Page 119
Pre-2011 Justice Sector Reform......Page 121
The Judicial Independence Law and the JUST Strategy: Milestones in King Abdullah’s Judicial Reform......Page 122
An Independent Judiciary Today for a Stronger Support Tomorrow......Page 123
First Stage of the Reforms: The Turning Point in Jordan’s Judiciary......Page 124
Second Stage of the Reforms: The European Support to the Managerial Dimension of Justice......Page 126
Inputs: One Programme, Five Different Components......Page 127
The Micro-Projects: Championing Legal Drafting......Page 128
Second Tentative Summary of the Internal/External Model of Change......Page 132
References......Page 135
5 Limitations and Possibilities of Externally Supported Judicial Reforms......Page 137
Comparing the Cases......Page 138
Looking on the Inside: Who’s in Charge of Judicial Power?......Page 140
A Matter of Power......Page 141
Net Gains and Successfully Endorsed External Models......Page 143
What Role for EU-Mediterranean Judicial Support in the Light of Moroccan and Jordanian’s Developments?......Page 145
References......Page 148
Index......Page 149