This collection of essays by leading scholars of constitutionallaw looks at a critical component of constitutional democracy--judicialindependence--from an international comparative perspective. Peter H. Russell'sintroduction outlines a general theory of judicial independence, while thecontributors analyze a variety of regimes from the United States and Latin Americato Russia and Eastern Europe, Western Europe and the United Kingdom, Australia, Israel, Japan, and South Africa. Russell's conclusion compares these various regimesin light of his own analytical framework.