Now in its sixth year, this edition of the Global Corruption Report focuses on judges and courts, but situating them within the broader justice system, and looking at political, economic and societal pressures on the judiciary.

This vital publication brings together scholars, judges and civil society activists from around the world to examine how, why and where corruption mars judicial processes, and to reflect on reforms and activism that help remedy a corruption-tainted system.
GCR 2007 includes:

• analysis of the causes of judicial corruption and its consequences, including an exploration of the particular impact on women
• reports on judicial corruption in 35 countries
• evaluation of efforts to reduce judicial corruption
• recommendations for action against judicial corruption directed at judges, political powers, prosecutors, lawyers and civil society
• a specially commissioned survey on citizens' experiences of court corruption around the world
• the latest empirical research on judicial corruption, for example on the determinants of judicial corruption and the relationship between immunity laws and corruption
• detailed assessments of the state of corruption in countries by national chapters of Transparency International and other experts
• with essays by experts and practitioners including: Tom Blass, Emilio Cárdenas, Héctor Chayer, Roy A. Schotland, Edgardo Buscaglia, Gherardo Colombo, Nicholas Cowdery, Fiona Darroch, Don Deya, Gretta Fenner, Jorge Fernández Menéndez, Stephen Golub, Jacqueline de Gramont, Carlo Guarnieri, Linn Hammergren, Keith Henderson, Kamal Hossain, Eva Joly, Marina Kurkchiyan, Zora Ledergerber, Greg Mayne, Gugulethu Moyo, Celestine Nyamu-Musembi, Oluyemi Osinbajo, Mary Noel Pepys, Mark Pieth, Geoffrey Robertson, Susan Rose-Ackerman, Katya Salazar, Fabrizio Sarrica, Oliver Stolpe, Arnold Tsunga, Stefan Voigt, Vincent Yang