Shimon Shetreet, Sophie Turenne, Leah Wortham and Fryderyk Zoll will lead this endeavor that aims at reviewing, updating and adjusting the Mount Scopus International Standards of Judicial Independence to the reality of European jurisdictions as well as to current challenges to judicial independence in some of the European countries.

The International Association of Judicial Independence and World Peace (JIWP), an academic association aiming to introduce innovative concepts of judicial independence and to clarify significant components essential for liberty, democracy, human rights and effective world trade, elaborated the Mount Scopus International Standards of Judicial Independence. They were approved in 2008 and consolidated in 2018. These standards were developed with a view to enable the judiciary to play a role in the adequate protection of human rights and in the operation of an efficient and fair market economy with a human face in the era of globalisation.

The Mount Scopus Standards are – intentionally – of a very general nature to allow for their application in a broad range of jurisdictions globally. In particular, they consider the situation in a range of common law jurisdictions, which are significantly different in various respects from the continental European jurisdictions.

More information about the project can be found here.

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