About Judicial Independence (Comments on Pablo Lucas Murillo de la Cueva book: La independencia judicial y el gobierno de los jueces. Un debate constitucional)

Abstract

This essay comments critically a book on judicial governance by Pablo Lucas Murillo de la Cueva, professor and Magistrate at the Supreme Court. It focuses on the book’s opportunity, its contents, the perspectives used in the analysis and the essential thesis sustained. The book is a clear and reasoned justification of the parliamentary selection of the members of the Spanish Judicial Council. But it studies, as well, other important issues raised by judicial independence in Spain combining the theoretical approach of a Professor and the practical knowledge of a member of Spanish judiciary.