The Culture of Judicial Independence in a Globalised World

Shimon Shetreet is the Greenblatt Chair of Public and International Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (emeritus). He is a Member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Arts and sciences of Belgium and the author and editor of many books on the judiciary. He is the President of the International Association of Judicial Independence and World Peace and the leader of the International Project of Judicial Independence and the Mt Scopus International Standards of Judicial Independence 2008. Between 1988 and 1996 he served as a Member of the Israeli Parliament, and was a cabinet minister under Yitshak Rabin and Shimon Peres. He also served as Senior Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem. He was a Judge of the Standard Contract Court and served as a member of the Chief Justice Landau Commission on the Israeli Court System.

Wayne McCormack is a Professor of Law at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law since 1978 and served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. He coordinated the University of Utah's involvement with the 2002 Olympic Winter Games at Salt Lake City. Professor McCormack has written extensively in Constitutional Law, Judicial Procedure, and Law and Terrorism. He is an Editor for the blog globaljusticeblog.com. He served as Associate Director of the Association of American Law Schools. He is a member of the International Project of Judicial Independence of the International Association of Judicial Independence and World Peace.