The Politico-Legal Dynamics of Judicial Review

Theunis Roux is Professor of Law at University of New South Wales, Sydney. He was the founding director of the South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights and International Law and is a former Secretary General of the International Association of Constitutional Law. He is the author of The Politics of Principle (Cambridge, 2013) and co-editor, with Rosalind Dixon, of a recent anthology of papers assessing the triumphs and disappointments of post-apartheid South African constitutionalism.

• 1. Preliminaries; 2. A typographical theory of JR-regime change; 3. Australian democratic legalism: constant cultural cause or path-dependent trajectory?; 4. From democratic legalism to instrumentalism: India's constitutional cultural transformation; 5. The post-colonial adaptation of authoritarian legalism in Zimbabwe; 6. Testing the typological theory; 7. Findings and implications.

'Theunis Roux's The Politico-Legal Dynamics of Judicial Review develops a path-breaking theory, one which integrates legal reasoning and culture with political theories of judicial behavior. His ambitious argument offers important new insights into the dynamics of both well-studied and lesser-known legal systems.' David Landau, Mason Ladd Professor, Associate Dean for International Programs, Florida State University College of Law