Macfadyen Lecture 2021: Judicial independence and the rule of law
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Chief Justice Nathan L Hecht
Judicial independence is undemocratic, yet it is essential to democracy’s proper functioning.
How is judicial independence to be protected from powerful political and popular pressures on judges to rule this way or that when the judiciary has ‘neither force nor will, but merely judgment’?
That is the subject of this year’s Macfadyen Lecture – which will be held in person at the Signet Library in Edinburgh on October 19.
This year’s speaker is Chief Justice Nathan L Hecht of the Supreme Court of Texas.
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