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| Article Name : | | | SOCIAL JUSTICE AND JUDICIAL ACTIVISM: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE | | Author Name : | | | Dr. Subhash Patil | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | ROR-14794 | | Article : | |  | Author Profile | | Abstract : | | | This paper investigates the idea of judicial activism within the framework of social justice. The term "judicial activism" describes judges' propensity to apply and interpret the law in ways that go beyond their customary duties of reading the Constitution and statutes. This paper examines the ways in which judicial activism can be used to further social justice by going over a number of significant cases and their effects on the cause. | | Keywords : | | - judicial ethics,environmental justice,social justice,civil rights,judicial activism,
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