Reputation and Judicial Tactics

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Reputation and Judicial Tactics is written by Shai Dothan and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1107031133 (ISBN 10) and 9781107031135 (ISBN 13).

This book argues that national and international courts seek to enhance their reputations through the strategic exercise of judicial power. Courts often cannot enforce their judgments and must rely on reputational sanctions to ensure compliance. One way to do this is for courts to improve their reputation for generating compliance with their judgments. When the court's reputation is increased, parties will be expected to comply with its judgments and the reputational sanction on a party that fails to comply will be higher. This strategy allows national and international courts, which cannot enforce their judgments against states and executives, to improve the likelihood that their judgments will be complied with over time. This book describes the judicial tactics that courts use to shape their judgments in ways that maximize their reputational gains.