Georgetown University Law Center Scholarship @ GEORGETOWN LAW 2003 Non-Judicial Review Mark V. Tushnet Georgetown University Law Center,
[email protected] This paper can be downloaded free of charge from: https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/235 40 Harv. J. on Legis. 453-492 (2003) This open-access article is brought to you by the Georgetown Law Library. Posted with permission of the author. Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub Part of the Constitutional Law Commons GEORGETOWN LAW Faculty Publications February 2010 Non-Judicial Review 40 Harv. J. on Legis. 453-492 (2003) Mark V. Tushnet Professor of Law Georgetown University Law Center
[email protected] This paper can be downloaded without charge from: Scholarly Commons: http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/235/ Posted with permission of the author ESSAY NON-JUDICIAL REVIEW MARK TuSHNET* Professor Mark Tushnet challenges the view that democratic constitutional ism requires courts to dominate constitutional review. He provides three di verse examples of non-judicial institutions involved in constitutional review and examines the institutional incentives to get the analysis" right." Through these examples, Professor Tushnet argues that non-judicial actors may per form constitutional review that is accurate, effective, and capable of gaining public acceptance. Professor Tushnet recommends that scholars conduct further research into non-judicial review to determine whether ultimately more or less judicial review is necessary in constitutional democracies. If nothing else, familiarity leads us to assume that constitutional re view must occur in courts and that non-judicial actors-politicians, said in a disparaging tone of voice-would fail to do a decent job of constitu tional review were they given the chance.' Courts are said to be distinc tively the forum of principle,2 the legislature and executive the forum of politics.