Pub Date : 2024-05-15DOI: 10.1017/s1574019624000142
Jan Petrov
The challenge of distinguishing between abusive and non-abusive constitutional practices – Main ways of detecting abuse: analyses of intent and effects – Obstacles to detecting bad faith intent in constitutional law – Structured and focused analysis of the effects of abusive constitutionalism: introducing the foreseeable effects test – Normative benchmark: substantial diminishment of accountability – Step 1: probability of harm, analysing the tested constitutional measure’s foreseeable effects on operability and autonomy of an accountability mechanism – Step 2: seriousness of potential harm, analysing the constitutional measure’s effects in the broader constitutional context (including interaction effects) – Step 3: harm mitigation, analysing the existence and adequacy of harm-mitigating safeguards accompanying the constitutional measure – Strengths and limits of the foreseeable effects test
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Pub Date : 2024-05-15DOI: 10.1017/s1574019624000178
Mikael Ruotsi
The delegation theory of unconstitutional constitutional amendments, a limited theory of unamendability – Applying a doctrinal approach to justify unconstitutional constitutional amendments – Introducing a typology of unconstitutionality – The practical deficiencies and internal inconsistencies of the delegation theory – The limited role of the doctrine of unconstitutional constitutional amendments in the Swedish context – The redundancy of constituent power as a legal concept
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Pub Date : 2024-05-14DOI: 10.1017/s1574019624000130
Marcus Schnetter
The ‘rights revolution’ and ‘displacement doctrine’ of the European Court of Justice – EU Charter as a yardstick for constitutional review – Constitutional Courts of Austria and Germany: Charter judgment and Right to Be Forgotten II order – Rhetoric, persuasion and eloquence in judicial reasoning
欧洲法院的 "权利革命 "和 "置换理论"--《欧盟宪章》作为宪法审查的标准--奥地利和德国的宪法法院:宪章》判决与 "被遗忘权 II "命令 - 司法推理中的修辞、说服与雄辩
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Pub Date : 2024-04-15DOI: 10.1017/s1574019624000087
Michal Kovalčík
Constitutional referrals by ordinary courts – Judicial dialogue between constitutional courts and ordinary courts – Toolkit for judicial resistance – Novel taxonomy of features and functions of constitutional referrals – Separation of powers approach – Democratic decay – Self-defence mechanism – Mix of methodological approaches – Case study on Czechia
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Pub Date : 2024-04-15DOI: 10.1017/s1574019624000117
Paul Dermine, Ana Bobić
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Pub Date : 2024-03-19DOI: 10.1017/s1574019624000075
Tamar Hostovsky Brandes, Natalie R. Davidson
References to the European Convention on Human Rights by Israeli courts – the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights as sources of comparative law – comparative law as technique of legitimation – content analysis of use by domestic courts of European Court of Human Rights jurisprudence – European Court of Human Rights jurisprudence and deference to state
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Pub Date : 2024-03-19DOI: 10.1017/s157401962400004x
A. Somek
{"title":"Parchment Barriers: The Constitution as Law","authors":"A. Somek","doi":"10.1017/s157401962400004x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s157401962400004x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45815,"journal":{"name":"European Constitutional Law Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140230948","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 : 2024-03-08DOI: 10.1017/s1574019624000063
Adam Bodnar, Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias
Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation (SLAPPs) – the rule of law backsliding – governance of historical memory – academic freedom – EU Draft Directive on protecting persons who engage in public participation from manifestly unfounded or abusive court proceedings
{"title":"Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation (SLAPPs), the Governance of Historical Memory in the Rule of Law Crisis, and the EU Anti-SLAPP Directive","authors":"Adam Bodnar, Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias","doi":"10.1017/s1574019624000063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1574019624000063","url":null,"abstract":"Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation (SLAPPs) – the rule of law backsliding – governance of historical memory – academic freedom – EU Draft Directive on protecting persons who engage in public participation from manifestly unfounded or abusive court proceedings","PeriodicalId":45815,"journal":{"name":"European Constitutional Law Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140071871","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 : 2024-03-08DOI: 10.1017/s1574019624000014
Anna Wójcik, Paula Rhein-Fischer
Introduction to the Special Section – relationship between memory laws and the rule of law – exploiting law in the service of historical policy and undermining democracy – rule of law backsliding – democratic backsliding – risk of abuse of memory laws
{"title":"Introduction to the Special Section ‘Memory Laws and the Rule of Law’","authors":"Anna Wójcik, Paula Rhein-Fischer","doi":"10.1017/s1574019624000014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1574019624000014","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction to the Special Section – relationship between memory laws and the rule of law – exploiting law in the service of historical policy and undermining democracy – rule of law backsliding – democratic backsliding – risk of abuse of memory laws","PeriodicalId":45815,"journal":{"name":"European Constitutional Law Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140071873","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 : 2024-03-08DOI: 10.1017/s1574019623000214
Grażyna Baranowska
Memory laws – Protecting the good name of the nation – de facto memory laws – Prohibiting statements about the past – Article 301 of the Turkish Criminal Code – Protecting the good name of Poland and the Polish nation – Protecting the good name of the nation as de facto memory laws – Role of organisations in implementing the laws – Rule of law – Independence of the judiciary – European Court of Human Rights – Chilling effect – European memory politics
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