Pub Date : 2022-07-11DOI: 10.1007/s40803-022-00175-9
Eduardo Barajas-Sandoval, Helena Botero-Pinzón, J. Botero, Á. M. Pinzón-Rondón, Á. Ruiz-Sternberg
{"title":"Gender Inequality and the Rule of Law","authors":"Eduardo Barajas-Sandoval, Helena Botero-Pinzón, J. Botero, Á. M. Pinzón-Rondón, Á. Ruiz-Sternberg","doi":"10.1007/s40803-022-00175-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40803-022-00175-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45733,"journal":{"name":"Hague Journal on the Rule of Law","volume":"15 1","pages":"95-107"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44495975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-28DOI: 10.1007/s40803-022-00176-8
Laurent Pech
{"title":"The Rule of Law as a Well-Established and Well-Defined Principle of EU Law","authors":"Laurent Pech","doi":"10.1007/s40803-022-00176-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40803-022-00176-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45733,"journal":{"name":"Hague Journal on the Rule of Law","volume":"14 1","pages":"107 - 138"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52954277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-20DOI: 10.1007/s40803-022-00173-x
E. Harper, Yann Colliou
{"title":"Re-Imagining Customary Justice Systems: Interrogating Past Assumptions and Entertaining New Ones","authors":"E. Harper, Yann Colliou","doi":"10.1007/s40803-022-00173-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40803-022-00173-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45733,"journal":{"name":"Hague Journal on the Rule of Law","volume":"15 1","pages":"75-94"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47044281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-04DOI: 10.1007/s40803-022-00174-w
Adam Ploszka
{"title":"It Never Rains but it Pours. The Polish Constitutional Tribunal Declares the European Convention on Human Rights Unconstitutional","authors":"Adam Ploszka","doi":"10.1007/s40803-022-00174-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40803-022-00174-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45733,"journal":{"name":"Hague Journal on the Rule of Law","volume":"152 ","pages":"51-74"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41309669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-04-13DOI: 10.1007/s40803-022-00171-z
Julinda Beqiraj, L. Moxham
{"title":"Reconciling the Theory and the Practice of the Rule of Law in the European Union Measuring the Rule of Law","authors":"Julinda Beqiraj, L. Moxham","doi":"10.1007/s40803-022-00171-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40803-022-00171-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45733,"journal":{"name":"Hague Journal on the Rule of Law","volume":"14 1","pages":"139 - 164"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48980828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-28DOI: 10.1007/s40803-022-00169-7
Elena Basheska
{"title":"EU Enlargement in Disregard of the Rule of Law: A Way Forward Following the Unsuccessful Dispute Settlement Between Croatia and Slovenia and the Name Change of Macedonia","authors":"Elena Basheska","doi":"10.1007/s40803-022-00169-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40803-022-00169-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45733,"journal":{"name":"Hague Journal on the Rule of Law","volume":"14 1","pages":"221 - 256"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45596015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-15DOI: 10.1007/s40803-022-00168-8
J. Grogan
{"title":"COVID-19, The Rule of Law and Democracy. Analysis of Legal Responses to a Global Health Crisis","authors":"J. Grogan","doi":"10.1007/s40803-022-00168-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40803-022-00168-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45733,"journal":{"name":"Hague Journal on the Rule of Law","volume":"14 1","pages":"349 - 369"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42764424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-02DOI: 10.1007/s40803-022-00170-0
Edit Zgut
{"title":"Informal Exercise of Power: Undermining Democracy Under the EU’s Radar in Hungary and Poland","authors":"Edit Zgut","doi":"10.1007/s40803-022-00170-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40803-022-00170-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45733,"journal":{"name":"Hague Journal on the Rule of Law","volume":"14 1","pages":"287 - 308"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46202018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-02-16DOI: 10.1007/s40803-022-00167-9
Marta Bucholc
On 22 October 2020, the Constitutional Tribunal of Poland ruled that an abortion due to foetal impairment was unconstitutional. This article discusses the context of this controversial ruling as well as its main tenets, focusing on the interpretation of the human rights proffered by the Tribunal and on the rule of law concerns raised by the Tribunal’s decision. Against the backdrop of a brief history of the legal regulation of abortion in Poland since 1945, the article offers a critical assessment of the human rights framework used in the Polish abortion debate. Based on a close reading of the Tribunal’s ruling and the dissenting opinions, the article points out the particularities in the Tribunal’s engagement with international law and human rights jurisprudence. The article argues that the Tribunal’s decision is yet another symptom of the crisis in which the rule of law in Poland has found itself since 2015. It bears evidence to the closing of the jurisprudential horizon caused by the political change which has been taking place in Poland since 2015, consisting of the reduction of the role of international human rights debates as a reference in Polish constitutional jurisprudence. The ruling is therefore a portent of Poland’s future compliance with its international commitments in human rights matters.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-12DOI: 10.1007/s40803-021-00166-2
Beatrice Monciunskaite
During the last decade, it has become apparent that the European Union (EU) Commission is failing to halt rule of law decline in Poland and Hungary. However, has the Commission learnt from its experience in handling rule of law decline in these countries? This article suggests that not only has the EU Commission failed to learn the importance of swift action in the face of burgeoning rule of law crises but has actively ignored similar systemic issues altogether in Lithuania, a country that has historically been an exemplary Member State. This article will analyse the status of the rule of law and judicial independence in Lithuania in light of the EU Commission’s first two Rule of Law Reports published in September 2020 and July 2021. These reports were designed to act as a preventative measure to protect the rule of law in each Member State through documenting and raising awareness for rule of law developments in the Union. Lithuania has largely slipped under the radar of constitutional democracy scholars; however, in the past two years, Lithuania has endured a series of attacks on judicial independence and suffered an attempted siege of its national broadcaster. There has been an intense deadlock recently over the election of Constitutional Court justices, which has raised concerns over the executive’s persistent attempts to politicise Lithuania’s highest court. Worryingly the recent Rule of Law Reports, published by the EU Commission, fail to reflect the severity of these recent developments. The reports’ silence on these issues leads this article to conclude that the EU Commission is turning a blind eye to Lithuania’s precarious rule of law situation by failing to truthfully document significant negative developments around the rule of law. By doing so, the Commission not only exacerbates rule of law issues domestically but also undermines the fight against rule of law backsliding in the Union.
在过去十年中,很明显,欧盟委员会未能阻止波兰和匈牙利法治的衰落。然而,委员会是否从处理这些国家法治衰落的经验中吸取了教训?这篇文章表明,欧盟委员会不仅没有认识到在面对迅速发展的法治危机时迅速采取行动的重要性,而且还积极地忽视了立陶宛这个历史上堪称典范的成员国的类似系统性问题。本文将根据欧盟委员会于2020年9月和2021年7月发布的前两份法治报告,分析立陶宛的法治和司法独立现状。这些报告的目的是作为一项预防性措施,通过记录和提高对欧盟法治发展的认识,保护每个会员国的法治。立陶宛在很大程度上躲过了宪政民主学者的关注;然而,在过去两年中,立陶宛遭受了对司法独立的一系列攻击,并遭受了对其国家广播公司的企图围攻。最近,立陶宛宪法法院(Constitutional Court)法官的选举陷入了严重僵局,这引发了人们对立陶宛最高法院执政者不断试图将其政治化的担忧。令人担忧的是,欧盟委员会(EU Commission)最近发布的《法治报告》(Rule of Law Reports)未能反映出这些近期事态发展的严重性。报告对这些问题的沉默导致本文得出结论,欧盟委员会对立陶宛不稳定的法治状况视而不见,未能真实记录法治方面的重大负面发展。欧盟委员会这样做不仅加剧了国内的法治问题,也破坏了欧盟反对法治倒退的努力。
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