Redrafting the Mount Scopus Standards for Europe
Description
The International Association of Judicial Independence and World Peace (JIWP), an academic association aiming to introduce innovative concepts of judicial independence and to clarify significant components essential for liberty, democracy, human rights and effective world trade, elaborated the Mount Scopus International Standards of Judicial Independence.
They were approved in 2008 and consolidated in 2018. These standards were developed with a view to enable the judiciary to play a role in the adequate protection of human rights and in the operation of an efficient and fair market economy with a human face in the era of globalisation.
The Mount Scopus Standards are intentionally of a very general nature to allow for their application in a broad range of jurisdictions globally. In particular, they consider the situation in a range of common law jurisdictions, which are significantly different in various respects from the continental European jurisdictions.
Therefore, the Mount Scopus Standards should be redrafted and adapted to fit also the situations in non-common law jurisdictions in Europe. At the same time, particular challenges to judicial independence are gradually on the rise in many European countries. Therefore, the Mount Scopus Standards need to be adjusted to better address these current challenges.
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Project Reporters
Shimon Shetreet
Sophie Turenne
Leah Wortham
Fryderyk Zoll
