In Judicial Deliberations: A Comparative Analysis of Judicial
Transparency and Legitimacy (2004), the American-French scholar Mitchel
Lasser has, among other things, tried to re-establish the strengths of
the French cassation system. Using Lasser's approach and ideas as a
starting point for this book, judges from the French, Belgian and Dutch
Cassation Courts reflect on the challenges that their Courts are facing.
Specific attention is also given to the Strasbourg Court on Human
Rights, that has been so important for the moral legitimacy of the
European legal order, and to courts in post-communist systems, which
face many similar challenges and are under even greater pressure to
modernise. The book is a multidisciplinary contribution to the
international debate about the legitimacy of highest courts' rulings,
the concept of judicial leadership, and offers a new perspective in the
USA-versus-Europe debate.