Shimon Shetreet
Judicial Independence Project
The International Association of Judicial Independence and World Peace and its members introduced innovative concepts of judicial independence clarifying significant components essential for liberty, democracy, human rights and effective world trade.
Professor Shetreet is the President of the JIWP.
For more information, please visit JIWP.org
New Delhi 1982
Montreal 1983
Conferences & Reports 1983-2007
New Delhi Code of Minimum Standards of Judicial Independence 1982 was adopted in October 1982, after an intensive study and a series of conferences between 1980 and 1982.
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Montreal Declaration, The Universal Declaration on The Independence of Justice was unanimously adopted at the final plenary session of the first world conference on the independence of justice held at Montreal (Quebec, Canada) on June 10th, 1983.
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View the Full Declaration (JIWP.org)
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Read about past conferences and reports by the JIWP, in Germany (1983), Australia (1986), Portugal (1991) and Belgium (2000).
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Mt. Scopus Standards 2008
Recent Conferences 2007-Current
Publications
The Revised International Standards of Judicial Independence were approved in Jerusalem in 2008, and later ammended in Viena and approved in Ghent.
During 2007-current the Project organized 9 conferences: Jerusalem 2007, vaduz 2007, Jerusalem 2008, Krakow 2008, Cambridge 2009, Utah 2010, Vienna 2011, Hong Kong 2012, Ghent 2012.
S. Shetreet and C. Forsyth (eds.), THE CULTURE OF JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE: CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS AND PRACTICAL CHALLENGES, 637+xlix pp.
(Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2012).
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