Judicial Independence and Judicial Impartiality

This chapter presents a speech by Theodor Meron, which emphasizes a few themes that are crucial to the notions of judicial independence and impartiality. Meron draws in part on the experience of judges in international courts and on his own experience. He also refers to the general experience of judges in national courts of the United States and Europe. Meron hopes to provide some additional perspective to other points already made.