Networking the Rule of Law: How Change Agents Reshape Judicial Governance in the EU (Studies in Modern Law and Policy) - Hardcover

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Cristina Dallara is a permanent researcher at the Research Institute on Judicial Systems of the National Research Council (IRSIG-CNR) in Bologna. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Florence. She was Jean Monnet Post-doc. Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute, Italy. She has been involved with several international research projects on the role of the EU, the Council of Europe and other international organizations in promoting judicial reforms in the post-communist area. She was also involved as an expert for the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice - Council of Europe and OSCE in studies and programmes on quality of justice and judicial independence in transitional countries. Daniela Piana is Professor of Political Science at the University of Bologna and Associate Fellow at the Institut des Hautes Etudes sur la Justice in Paris. She has been carrying out comparative research on judicial policies in Western and Eastern Europe as well as on judicial systems. Recently she has worked on a comparative analysis of the intersection between judicial independence and judicial accountability in Italy. She has published extensively on rule of law, constitutional policies, courts, and managerial schemes in public prosecutor offices. Among her most recent books is Judicial Accountabilities in New Europe: from Rule of Law to Quality of Justice, Ashgate, 2010.