nim 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20200930-153648-0 DE-Verfassungsblog sr||||| 200930s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20200930-153648-0 doi eng 342 23 Donati, Filippo Author aut LawRules #2: We need to talk about Judicial Nominations Donati, Filippo Verfassungsblog 2020-09-30 Spoken Word spw rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier It's easy to agree that judicial independence is important – but who gets to be a part of the judiciary, who gets promoted to which court and who enters the highest ranks is a decision that has to be taken by someone, and a lot depends on who that someone is. Controlling judicial nominations is one of the key elements in all authoritarian takeover strategies which have been implemented in recent years in Poland, in Hungary and elsewhere. This is what we will discuss with the president of the European Network of Councils of the Judiciary, a member of the board of the Polish independent judges’ association IUSTITIA, and a German judge at the Bundesgerichtshof. funded by the government CC BY-SA 4.0 judicial independence Law Rules Richterwahlen Hetnarowicz-Sikora, Joanna Author aut Schmaltz, Christiane Author aut Steinbeis, Maximilian Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/lawrules-2-we-need-to-talk-about-judicial-nominations/ raw object