Taming the Shrew - Inter-Judicial Rivalry in Iraq

Abstract

On May 30th, Iraq’s Court of Cassation (CC) issued an unprecedented decision invalidating a previous ruling by the country’s highest court in the land, the Federal Supreme Court (FSC). The CC’s judicial coup and self-aggrandizement rests on a flawed doctrinal foundation and runs counter to the judicial hierarchy set out by Iraq’s constitution.

Keywords

• Constitutional Crisis
• Constitutional Review
• Constitutionalism
• Judicial Review
• Rechtsstaat
• Rechtsstaat