Topics Supreme court selection

Constitute topics are built from the variables in the Comparative Constitutions Project’s dataset, which captures the content of world constitutions. The particular variables relevant to this topic are listed below, in the form of survey questions.

More information about the CCP’s research design is available here, including background information on how the team designed the inventory of constitutional topics as well as the full coding survey

Description

The procedure through which a candidate for a supreme court judgeship is nominated and approved. This might involve approval from the executive, and all or part of the legislature.

Categories

Judiciary

Survey Questions

  • Is the selection process specified for the chief justice or the other justices of the highest ordinary court?
  • Who is involved in the nomination of the chief justice of the highest ordinary court?
  • Who is involved in the approval of nominations for the chief justice of the highest ordinary court?
  • What are the details of the process for selecting the chief justice of the highest ordinary court?
  • Who is involved in the nomination of judges to the highest ordinary court?
  • Who is involved in the approval of nominations to the highest ordinary court?
  • What are the details of the process for selecting judges for the highest ordinary court?