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Kiss, Csilla. "Constitutional democracy in Eastern Europe." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=85176.
Full textSuch an innovation plays an even more significant role in Eastern Europe, where concepts of majoritarian democracy on the one hand, and reliance on a strong leader, especially in times of difficulties on the other, were prominent due to both communist and pre-communist legacies. Furthermore, the often ambiguous constitutional documents produced by the negotiated transitions, as well as the sometimes irreconcilable aspirations of political forces, provided the courts with a prominent role in shaping the new order.
Through the study of two issues, transitional justice and the presidency, the dissertation examines the various functions constitutional courts can play in democratic consolidation in general and in advancing rule of law systems, in resolving constitutional ambiguities and in controlling political actors in particular.
Drawing on the analysis of political events, primary sources, parliamentary minutes, newspaper articles and court decisions, the dissertation concludes that while the courts' record in solving institutional problems cannot be regarded as an unequivocal success, their role in defining fundamental constitutional principles is more praiseworthy. Not only did they manage to settle controversial issues as in the case of transitional justice, they also successfully curbed majoritarian endeavors and steered the new systems towards the acceptance of basic liberal constitutional values.
Dmitrenko, Alexander. "Natural law or liberalism?, gay rights in the new Eastern Europe." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ63077.pdf.
Full textREH, Christine. "The Politics of Preparation : delegated decisions, arguing and constitutional choice in Europe." Doctoral thesis, European University Institute, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/10475.
Full textExamining Board: Prof. Adrienne Héritier (EUI, Florence) ; Prof. Frank Schimmelfennig (ETH, Zürich) ; Prof. Andy Smith (IEP, Bordeaux) ; Prof. Helen Wallace (EUI/RSCAS, Florence)
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This project investigates a ubiquitous yet under-studied phenomenon in national, European and global politics: delegated preparation, defined as those negotiations through which civil servants or experts "pre-cook" political choice in multi-level decision-processes. While examples are legion-reaching from legislative drafting in national ministries to the Committee of Permanent Representatives (COREPER) in the European Union (EU)- the project focuses on preparation in complex international negotiations, and chooses EU Intergovernmental Conferences (IGCs) as empirical case. Claiming that a look beyond the tip of the "decision-iceberg" will gain us deeper insights into how and by whom Europe has been constitutionalised, I tackle two wider questions: 1) What is preparation and what can it do? and 2) Under what conditions will preparation be effective? Linked to an understanding of international negotiation as a "thick" social process, I argue, first, that the key to preparatory effectiveness lies in a particular set of collective resources as a necessary condition, and in consensual preagreement as both necessary and sufficient. Second, with effective pre-decision-making thus hinging upon successful delegated arguing, a set of scope conditions favourable to persuasion are singled out. These include 1) a familiar, iterative and insulated social context as a pre-condition for the non-distortive use of arguments; 2) an issue's complexity as facilitating the resonance of expertise and novel ideas; and 3) a macronorm's constitutional-systemic nature as favouring factual arguments linked to the international system. The hypotheses are tested on the "Group of Government Representatives" (GoR), with units of observation chosen from the Amsterdam and Nice IGCs according to variation of issue complexity and constitutional-systemic nature. Process-tracing of five issues: the communitarisation of free movement, the integration of Schengen and the institutionalisation of flexibility (Amsterdam), as well as Commission reform and Council votes (Nice) confirms that delegated preparation plays a key role even in the "bastion of high politics" that is EU reform. Yet, empirical evidence shows that persuasion is less prominent than expected, and uncovers alternative mechanisms behind effective preparation,in particular accommodation, depoliticisation and systemic compensation.
Harvey, Matthew. "Constituting a Commonwealth for Europe and beyond." Monash University, Faculty of Law, 2003. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/5642.
Full textShadley, Anna Bardes. "The Third Gate: Naturalization Legislation in Central and Eastern Europe." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1206123091.
Full textFarina, Martina <1994>. "Compliance with European Union Law in Central and Eastern Europe: the case of Bulgaria and Romania." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/21383.
Full textSlavov, Atanas. "Towards participatory political theology : democratic consolidation in Southeastern Europe and the role of Eastern Christianity in the process." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2016. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7337/.
Full textMogilnaya, Maria. "Deposit protection law reform in Russia : an evaluation." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/7104.
Full textRadunski, Astrid. "Frank Laczko ; lrene Stacher ; Amanda Klekozvski von Koppenfeld (Hrsg.): New Challenges for Migration Policy in Central and Eastern Europe / [rezensiert von] Astrid Radunski." Universität Potsdam, 2004. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2011/5571/.
Full textMaila, Malose Isaac. "The constitution, administrative justice and social grants: unravelling the malaise in Eastern Cape Welfare Department." Thesis, University of Limpopo (Turfloop Campus), 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/593.
Full textRasulov, Akbar. "A legal realist critique of the new international law regime relating to the treatment of minority communities in Eastern and Central Europe : a dialectical theoretical inquiry." Thesis, University of Hull, 2006. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:5838.
Full textMomoti, Ndyebo Kingsworth. "Law and culture in the new constitutional dispensation with specific reference to the custom of circumcision as practiced in the Eastern Cape." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003200.
Full textFee, Emma. "'A Europe without dividing lines': the normative framework of the European neighbourhood policy - emergent jus gentium or consolidation of jus civile?" Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=83952.
Full textPejchalová, Grünwaldová Vladimíra. "Property law in Europe : a comparative study of national law and the law of European convention for the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015STRAA020.
Full textThe thesis deals with the protection of private property in the law and practice of the European Convention on Human Rights and in the Czech and French constitutional law and practice. It provides a comparative inquiry into the scope of the respective property protection clauses and their judicial interpretation with a view to extracting convergent and divergent elements of the normative and jurisprudential approaches to the protection of private property as a human right. The main focus of the inquiry is to examine and compare the treatment of property in the European Convention on Human Rights and in constitutional law of France and the Czech Republic. The topic is analysed by virtue of research into several specific areas: the philosophical and theoretical foundations; the meaning and scope of the property guarantees and their judicial interpretation, limitations and deprivations of property; and the constitutional approaches to the implementation of the law and practice of the Convention
Ghodoosi, Farshad. "Iran and the Constitutionalism: History and Evolution and the Impact on International Relations." FIU Digital Commons, 2018. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3720.
Full textWade, Mame Ndiaga. "Accès au juge constitutionnel et constitutionnalisation du droit : approche comparée avec l'Allemagne, l'Italie et l'Espagne." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015AIXM1071/document.
Full textThe direct access of individuals to constitutional justice has the tendency in Germany and Spain, contrary to France and Italy where it does not exist, to modify the current and objective nature of the mission of constitutionalisation of the constitutional judge through the subjective goals individual and direct recourses. It triggers, on the other hand, on the side of the constitutional judge another function than the simple constitutionalisation of law that remains objective in the case of the indirect access, which is leading to the fundamentalisation of law, which has very subjective features. This is explaining the competition between the constitutional judge and the ordinary and European courts that leads the first to behave in Supreme Court in Germany and Spain where those review procedures exist. The fundamentalisation, which is a wider process than the constitutionalisation one, also oblige the constitutional judge to adapt and to get involved in the “circulation of legal solutions”
Wittinger, Michaela. "Der Europarat : die Entwicklung seines Rechts und der "europäischen Verfassungswerte" /." Baden-Baden : Nomos, 2005. http://www.gbv.de/dms/sub-hamburg/494336110.pdf.
Full textJonsson, Anna. "Judicial Review and Individual Legal Activism : The Case of Russia in Theoretical Perspective." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala : Faculty of Law & Department of East European Studies, Uppsala University, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-5811.
Full textJones, Benjamin Nicholas Farror. "British politics and the post-war development of human rights." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e680adc1-a3e9-4c7a-be6d-0f3b374fb209.
Full textLundin, Olle. "Multi-actor Ownership : The Case of Swedish Development Cooperation with Ukraine." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-160466.
Full textSouty, Vincent. "La constitutionnalisation des pouvoirs de crise : essai de droit comparé." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015USPCA042.
Full textAnalysis of the evolution of norms relating to emergency powers, essentially beginning in the mid-twentieth century, is an excellent way of highlighting the far reaching renewal in this particular area both in terms of international law and in terms of internal law within individual States. A dynamic relationship can be observed between these two spheres in that the experiences of individual States contribute to the development of international law which in turn leads to an evolution of internal law. The emergence of the concept of the rule of law and the need for States to ensure respect for individual rights and freedom serve as guidelines for this dynamic process. Thus is born an international legal regime governing emergency powers, the establishment of a coherent set of rules concerning powers available at times of crisis. The objective of such a regime is to make emergency powers an essential part of the rule of law, much like the separation of powers or the existence of judicial remedies. With regard to domestic law, the majority of States, or at least those under the jurisdiction of the Inter-American and European Courts of Human Rights which constitute the body of this comparative study, retain the notion of institutionalization of emergency powers. Constitution making takes account of international developments in this particular field, putting in place and developing a variety of mechanisms with the aim of establishing emergency powers within the principle of the rule of law. The result is a work of constitutional engineering aimed at meticulously framing emergency powers, thereby guaranteeing the existence of these powers but also ensuring that they are not used for nefarious purposes
El análisis de la evolución de las normas jurídicas relativas a los poderes de crisis, principalmente a partirde la segunda mitad del siglo XX, permite poner de manifiesto la profunda renovación de la materia, tantodel punto de vista del derecho internacional como del derecho interno de los Estados. Existe un procesodinámico entre las dos esferas : la experiencia de los Estados contribuye al desarrollo del derechointernacional que, a su vez, participa en la evolución del derecho interno. Este proceso dinámico, guiadotanto por la emergencia del concepto de Estado de Derecho como por la necesidad de los Estados degarantizar el respeto de los derechos y libertades de los individuos, engendra la creación de un régimenjurídico internacional del estado de excepción, es decir un conjunto coherente de reglas relativas a lospoderes de crisis. Este régimen se destina a hacer del estado de excepción una institución del Estado deDerecho, al mismo nivel que la separación de poderes o que los recursos juridiccionales destinados aproteger el principio de juridicidad. A nivel interno, al menos la mayoría de los Estados que se someten ala jurisdicción de la Corte Interamericana ou a la del Tribunal Europeo, que son el objeto de este estudiocomparado, acatan la idea de institucionalización de los poderes de crisis. Los constituyentes toman encuenta las evoluciones internacionales en la materia y desarrollan numerosos mecanismos destinados ainscribir el estado de excepción en los principios del Estado de Derecho. El resultado es un trabajo deingeniería constitucional que circunscribe los poderes de crisis minuciosamente, esperando garantizar deesta manera la existencia de estos poderes asI como la limitación de los abusos
Teodossieva, Assia. "Die Niederlassungsfreiheit der Staatsangehörigen und der Unternehmen aus Mittel- und Osteuropa in der Europäischen Union." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Juristische Fakultät, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/16228.
Full textThe dissertation examines the right of establishment of nationals and companies of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in the European Union from the perspective of labour migration. It discusses the relevant EU legislation combining the corresponding German and Bulgarian national regulations over the period 1990-2009. The dissertation presents inter alia different constellations, in which the right of establishment is not used according to the spirit and purpose of the law. It analyzes the legal aspects of such unfair practices as a nontypical form of legal migration from Central and Eastern Europe in the European Union. In the years preceding the EU accession 2004/2007 and in the transitional periods after that the labour markets of the “old” EU Member States were subject of restrictive regulations. That fact provoked the CEE nationals under certain circumstances to use the right of establishment improperly - as an instrument for a legal access to the aforementioned labour markets, as a tool for acquiring a permanent residence status in the host country or even as an attempt to legalize an illegal residence. The study takes into account the relevant EU and German case law and runs complex on three levels - on the level of EU law and on the level of the corresponding Bulgarian and German law.
Jörgensen, Fredrik. "The Law BusinessmanTM : Five Essays on Legal Self-efficacy and Business Risk." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-97625.
Full textCamara, Souleymane. "La révision constitutionnelle en France et au Sénégal (étude comparée)." Thesis, Normandie, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019NORMR055.
Full textIt is commonly accepted that modern constitutions fulfill a dual function : organize the exercise of political power, on the one hand, ensure the protection of fundamental rights, on the other hand. As such, they occupy a prominent place in the hierarchy of standards : all lower rank rules must conform to them. It is this status that summarizes the expression « low fundamental» to qualify the Constitution. The latter can not, however, be immutable, it must adapt to changes while maintaining a certain stability, conducive to continuity.Yes, as Rousseau already noted, « a people is always master of changing its laws, even the better », no doubt, one must not abuse this faculty. Between two contradictory demands, balance is not easy to find. Thepurpose of our study is the use (very common) that France and Senegal have made respectively of the constitutional revision : the first to more than twenty, the second to more about thirty times. This simple observation would suffice to justify the interest of a research. The period indeed covers more than half a century, which, for the constitutional history of the two countries, is a significant observation time. The method adopte dis that of a systematic comparison between the object and effects of the main revisions undertaken since 1958, in France, and since 1960, Senegal..Admittdly, given the specificity of these two countries,methodological precautions are necessary : it is important at the same time to understand the institutional and political logic of each of them and of focus on the essential, not the accessory. Developed with nuances, the comparison makes it possible to highlight the differences and convergences that the use of revision in countries that initially share a very close constitutionalmatrix. As for the plan adopted, it is inspired by the nature of the subject selected. The first part focuses on analyzing the Framework constitutional, quite similar, of the revision : it therefore compares the various procedures implementation and the limits placed on the derived constituent power. The second part is about content and the effects of revisions undertaken in France and Senegal. It allows first to part in three common motivations : the improvement of the constitutional sustem, the extension of fundamental rights finally the adaptation to the requirements of European integration and unity African. It leads then to question the damages realized modifications some of which obey motivations having only a distant relation with thesearch for the common good. This is obviously the most delicate aspect of our approach but it seemed to us indispensable to approach it, in spite of the difficulties it entails. Thus, a path is drawn, on one side, a common heritage and, on the other, differences irreduccible between France and Senegal who share a common history. If this scale is not, not surprising, this workwill also, we hope, proide a modest contribution to dangers of too frequent, insufficiently thought out or badly inspired revisions
Elliesie, Hatem, Peter Scholz, Beate Backe, and Kai Kreutzberger. "Zeitschrift für Recht und Islam (ZR&I)." Gesellschaft für Arabisches und Islamisches Recht e.V, 2017. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A15664.
Full textElliesie, Hatem, Peter Scholz, Beate Backe, and Kai Kreutzberger. "Zeitschrift für Recht & Islam." Gesellschaft für Arabisches und Islamisches Recht e.V, 2016. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A23375.
Full textScholz, Peter, Hatem Elliesie, Beate Anam, and Kai Kreutzberger. "Zeitschrift für Recht & Islam: ZR&I." Gesellschaft für Arabisches und Islamisches Recht e.V. (GAIR), 2017. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A33661.
Full textElliesie, Hatem, Peter Scholz, Beate Anam, and Kai Kreutzberger. "Zeitschrift für Recht & Islam: ZR&I." Gesellschaft für Islamisches und Arabisches Recht e.V, 2018. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A36328.
Full textElliesie, Hatem, Alexander Gramsch, and Peter Scholz. "GAIR-Mitteilungen." Gesellschaft für Arabisches und Islamisches Recht, 2009. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A11115.
Full textElliesie, Hatem, Peter Scholz, and Alexander Gramsch. "GAIR-Mitteilungen." Gesellschaft für Arabisches und Islamisches Recht, 2010. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A11116.
Full textElliesie, Hatem, Peter Scholz, and Alexander Gramsch. "GAIR-Mitteilungen." Gesellschaft für Arabisches und Islamisches Recht, 2009. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A11224.
Full textElliesie, MLE Hatem, Peter Scholz, and Alexander Gramsch. "GAIR-Mitteilungen." Gesellschaft für Arabisches und Islamisches Recht e.V, 2010. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A11225.
Full textElliesie, Hatem, Peter Scholz, and Alexander Gramsch. "GAIR-Mitteilungen." Gesellschaft für arabisches und islamisches Recht e.V, 2011. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A11284.
Full textElliesie, Hatem, and Peter Scholz. "GAIR-Mitteilungen." Gesellschaft für Arabisches und Islamisches Recht, 2012. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A11657.
Full textElliesie, Hatem, Peter Scholz, and Beate Backe. "GAIR-Mitteilungen." Gesellschaft für Arabisches und Islamisches Recht e.V. (GAIR), 2013. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A12189.
Full textElliesie, Hatem, Peter Scholz, and Beate Backe. "GAIR-Mitteilungen." Gesellschaft für Arabisches und Islamisches Recht e.V. (GAIR), 2014. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A12954.
Full textScholz, Peter, Hatem Elliesie, and Beate Backe. "GAIR-Mitteilungen." Gesellschaft für Arabisches und Islamisches Recht e.V. (GAIR), 2015. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A13687.
Full textMolyneaux, M. E. "The impact of a change in political constitution on early Palestinian Judaism during the period 175-161 B.C.E." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53121.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study looks at a watershed period in the history of Judaism. In 175 B.C.E. a group of Jews sought to break Judaea out of the isolation in which it had stood since the Persian period. They wished to develop closer ties with their neighbours in Coele-Syria and Phoenicia and the Greek world in general. Since the Persian period the people of Judaea had been governed by high priests according to the 'ancestral laws' i.e. the Torah and its interpretation by Ezra. This 'ancestral law' had been confirmed as binding on all Jews by Antiochus III in his decree of 198 B.C.E. In order to move beyond the restrictions placed on contact between Jews and other peoples, it would be necessary to have the political status of Judaea changed. A change of political status could only be brought about by the king or one of his successors. In 175 B.C.E. a group of Jews requested Antiochus IV to permit them to transform Judaea from an ethnos into a polis. He agreed and the transformation was begun. It is these events of 175 B.C.E. that form the base of this study. The writer uses the model of Cultural Anthropology to form a framework in which these and subsequent events can be analysed. In this way we can get a better understanding of how events progressed. How a political reform ended in a religious suppression and persecution and finally a successful revolt against the Seleucid kingdom. The Torah and its interpretation stood at the center of Jewish life. Each group interpreted the law in their own way and understood events in relation to this interpretation. Therefore no analysis of this period can be undertaken without taking the law and its various interpretations into account. The law is the thread that holds all facets of this work together.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie handeloor 'n tydperk van waterskeiding in die geskiedenis van die Judaïsme. In 175 ve. wou 'n groep Jode in Palestina wegbreek uit die isolasie waarin hulle hulleself bevind het sedert die oorname deur die Persiese ryk. Hulle wou graag nouer bande met hulle buurstate en die Griekse wêreld aanknoop. Sedert die Persiese tydperk is die mense van Juda deur hëepriesters regeer, volgens die 'voorvaderlike wette', dws die Torah en sy vertolking volgens Esra. Alle Jode was gebind deur hierdie 'voorvaderlike wette' deur Antiogus III se dekreet van 198 ve. Indien die mense die beperkings teen kontak met ander volke sou wou ophef, sou dit nodig wees om die politieke status van Juda te verander. Net die koning of een van sy opvolgers kon die politieke status van Juda verander. In 175 ve. word Antiogus IV deur 'n groep Jode gevra om verlof om Jerusalem in 'n Griekse polis te omskep. Hy het ingestem en die omskepping het begin. Hierdie gebeurtenisse van 175 ve. vorm die basis van hierdie studie. Die skrywer gebruik die kutuur-antropologiese teoretiese model as raamwerk vir die ontleding van hierdie en opvolgende gebeurtenisse. Hierdie model stelons in staat om die ontwikkelinge in Juda beter te verstaan en meer spesifiek 'n antwoord op die volgende vraag te kry: "Hoekom het politieke hervorming tot godsdienstige verdrukking en vervolging aanleiding gegee en in die finale instansie tot 'n suksesvolle opstand teen die Seleukied koninkryk gelei?" Die Torah en sy vertolking het die sentrum van die Joodse lewe gevorm. Elke groep in Juda het die 'wet' op sy eie manier vertolk en ontwikkelinge in verband daarmee probeer verstaan. Daarom is dit nie moontlik om hierdie tydperk te bestudeer sonder 'n erkenning van die waarde van die 'wet' en sy verskillende vertolkings nie. Die 'wet' is die goue draad wat hierdie studie byeen hou.
Tsampi, Aikaterini. "Le principe de séparation des pouvoirs dans la jurisprudence de la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017STRAA008.
Full textWhat of the idea that a constitutional principle concerning the institutional organization of the State, such as the separation of powers, could be found in the jurisprudence of an international court of human rights, namely the European Court of Human Rights ? Even if it were to be audacious to prove that the judges of the Strasbourg Court apply a precise theory of separation of powers, it, nonetheless remains relevant to answer the question whether the solutions adopted by the aforementioned judges outline a coherent vision of what should be, in their view, the relations between the branches of government. Yet, one should always bear in mind that the theory of the separation of powers, as conceived in the contemporary liberal State, implies the consecration of only a minimum nucleus of solutions
ALBI, Anneli. "Central and Eastern European constitutions and EU integration : in a decade from 'souverainism' to 'federalism'?" Doctoral thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/4539.
Full textPIQANI, Darinka. "Supremacy of EU law and the jurisprudence of constitutional reservations in central Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans : towards a holistic constitutionalism." Doctoral thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/14527.
Full textExamining Board: Monica Claes (University of Tilburg); Bruno De Witte (EUI); Wojciech Sadurski (Supervisor, former EUI and University of Sydney); Marek Safjan (European Court of Justice, Luxembourg)
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The thesis explores how the principle of supremacy of EU law has been construed by the case law of constitutional courts of new member states in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The thesis analyzes the jurisprudence of constitutional reservations against the background of CEE countries as political entities with a regained sense of nationhood, ethnos and sovereignty and, in the light of a pattern of powerful and activist constitutional courts which have appeared willing to engage in domestic sensitive issues. Then, the interaction between national (constitutional) law and EU is transferred in the context of pre-accession adaptations in the Western Balkans, by analyzing the path towards Europe of Croatia and Albania. The thesis suggests that the jurisprudence of constitutional reservations in CEE often replicates that of other powerful constitutional courts in old member states, although it appears to be more receptive and less sceptical towards the unconditional supremacy of EU law. The thesis puts forward the idea of 'holistic constitutionalism' understood as the full commitment of national and EU institutions in achieving the aims of European integration on the basis of the treaty mechanisms, substantive guarantees and the common constitutional principles which are at place in Europe. The share responsibility of integration and adherence to common agreed constitutional principles among political actors, national governments, national parliaments, EU institutions and national (constitutional) courts would lead towards a less conflictual relationship between EU law and national constitutional law.
KOCHAROV, Anna. "Republican Europe or constitutional choices of EU migration law." Doctoral thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/38395.
Full textExamining Board: Professor Marise Cremona, European University Institute (Supervisor); Professor Dennis Patterson, European University Institute; Professor Elspeth Guild, Radbound University Nijmegen; Professor Anne Peters, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law.
Constitutions establish communities. This essay explores how a European political community can be advanced through EU constitutional law. It is shown that legitimacy of the Union derives from three conceptions of Peace manifest in EU free movement law, external agreements of the Union and migration law under the AFSJ. The constitutional role of the Union is to ensure Peace by addressing two types of conflict. The first are static conflicts of interests between the national polities in the EU. These are avoided by ensuring reciprocal non-interference between Member States in the Union through deregulation in Union law. The second are dynamic conflicts of ideas about positive liberty held by the peoples of Europe that can be resolved through regulation in a European political space. Here, Union law enables a continuous process of re-negotiating a shared European idea of positive liberty that can be accepted as own by each national polity in the EU. Both solutions are premised on liberty from domination of each national polity, from which legitimacy of the Union and the European political space ensue. Substantive law and constitutional theory, analysis of the legislative process and CJEU case law, insights from psychology and philosophy are combined throughout this work to unveil how a stronger Union can be advanced through constitutional law.
BELAVUSAU, Uladzislau. "Freedom of expression : European and American constitutional models for Central and Eastern Europe." Doctoral thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/18410.
Full textExamining Board: Professor Wojciech Sadurski, University of Sydney / EUI (Supervisor); Professor Giovanni Sartor, EUI / Università degli studi di Bologna (Co-Supervisor); Professor Jiří Přibáň, University of Wales, Cardiff; Professor Michel Troper, Université Paris X Nanterre
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This doctoral thesis inquires into the role and perspectives of the ‘European’ (mandatory) and ‘USA’ (persuasive) constitutional models of the right to freedom of expression for the constitutional debate in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). This survey is based on the study of socio-legal developments in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland, embracing the period of post-communist transition until 2010. The research focuses on three controversial issues in the realm of freedom of speech, namely (1) hate speech, (2) historical revisionism, and (3) pornography, before the U.S. Supreme Court and European Court of Human Rights. The essential novelty of the project is an assessment of European standards of free speech and non-discrimination beyond the mechanisms of the Council of Europe, encompassing the relevant aspects of EU law (judgements of the European Court of Justice and harmonised instruments) as mandatory standards for courts and legislators, including those in CEE. The research methodology transcends a standard case law assessment (comparative constitutional, public international, and EU law), normative jurisprudence and analytical philosophy, incorporating critical approaches stemming from post-structuralist scrutiny, rhetoric, sociology, legal history, history of ideas, and art criticism.
CAHILL, Maria Catherine. "Committed constitutionalism : Europe and the circumstances of good." Doctoral thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/13175.
Full textExamining Board: Prof. Neil Walker, European University Institute (Supervisor) ; Prof. Bruno de Witte, European University Institute ; Prof. Gianluigi Palombella, University of Parma ; Prof. Ian Ward, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
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Barrett, Kathleen. "Constitutional Courts, Legislative Autonomy, and Democracy: What Price Rights?" 2014. http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/political_science_diss/30.
Full textMARZAL, YETANO Elia. "Constitutionalising Immigration Law: The reformulation of the rights of aliens by the courts in Germany, France and Spain. Precarious and emergent rights." Doctoral thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/4706.
Full textExamining board: Prof. Francesco Francioni (European University Institute, Florence) ; Prof. Danièle Lochak (Université Paris X-Nanterre) ; Prof. Christian Tomuschat (Humboldt-Universität, Berlin) ; Prof. Jacques Ziller Supervisor (European University Institute, Florence)
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The object of this research is the reconstruction of the existing legal response by European Union states to the phenomenon of immigration. It seeks to analyse the process of conferral of protection. One main dimension is selected and discussed: the case law of the national courts. The study focuses on the legal status of immigrants resulting from the intervention of these national courts. The research shows that although the courts have conferred an increasing protection on immigrants, this has not challenged the fundamental principle of the sovereignty of the states to decide, according to their discretionary prerogatives, which immigrants are allowed to enter and stay in their territories. Notwithstanding the differences in the general constitutional and legal structures, the research also shows that the courts of the three countries considered – France, Germany and Spain – have progressively moved towards converging solutions in protecting immigrants. The research contributes to a better understanding of the different legal orders analysed.
Wheatley, Natasha Grace. "Law, Time, and Sovereignty in Central Europe: Imperial Constitutions, Historical Rights, and the Afterlives of Empire." Thesis, 2016. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8MC8ZWP.
Full textBOBEK, Michal. "Comparative reasoning in European Supreme Courts : a study in foreign persuasive authority." Doctoral thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/17176.
Full textIn 2012 awarded the ‘Mauro Cappelletti Prize for the Best Thesis in Comparative Law'
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This study deals with the use of comparative arguments as non-mandatory (persuasive) authority in judicial decision-making at the level of national supreme jurisdictions. The study has two elements: empirical and theoretical. The empirical research assesses the practice of the supreme jurisdictions in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, France and England and Wales in relation to the quantitative aspects of the use of comparative arguments in their decision-making. The theoretical element comprises two levels: firstly, the level of the national legal systems studied, where mainstream doctrinal views concerning the role and legitimacy of comparative reasoning by courts are analysed; secondly, the national theoretical approaches which serve as the starting point for determining the common denominator for a positivistic approach to comparative reasoning by courts. The national theories and practice are furthermore used to comparatively discuss: issues of authority and its display in a judicial decision; reasons for which even the state-centred national mainstream doctrine accepts the judicial use of extra-systemic arguments, including comparative inspiration; domestic legitimacy for the use of comparative arguments, with discussion of the specific scenario of transitional legal systems and their use of external comparative authority; reasons for citation or the intentional silence with respect to foreign inspiration used; method of judicial comparisons and the traditional objections propounded in relation to it, including superficiality and selectivity; finally, against this background, the aims and purposes of judicial use of non-mandatory foreign authority are freshly reassessed.
Kun-yu, Hsieh, and 謝錕鈺. "Research on Semi-presidentiem in Eastern Europe--Analysis of Constitutional System in Poland, Russia and Ukraine." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/69014343406904571422.
Full text中國文化大學
中山學術研究所
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Since 1980’s to 1990’s, the Third Democratization of world swept across USSR, Eastern Europe and part of countries in Asia. At first, Poland took place the half open election of Sejm in 1989, affected most of all the countries in Eastern Europe and USSR, and then resulted these communist regimes to collapse, instead of electoral parliament and government. When these countries faced to democratization, most of them became a semi-presidential regime. This thesis focuses on analyzing the reason that why most of these regimes will change their institution, transit to a semi-presidential system of government? After choosing semi-presidential system, the operation and stability of institution of these emerging democratic regimes is another focus of the article. I selected new institutionism approach to research the theme, there are three emphases in this article, the first, I will analysis the reason why these countries selecting semi-presidential system. The second, I will observe the stability of the constitutional system of these emerging democratic regimes. The third, I will make a conclusion about semi-presidential system whether consolidate the democracy of the emerging regimes or not. Among many post-communist regimes in Eastern Europe, There are three reasons result me to select Poland, Russia and Ukraine as my studying goal. First of all, the three countries all are Slav nations, but they have different history and convention; and they have similar background before their regime transition, for example, the three countries all are ruled by totalitarian before democratization. Finally, even though they all selected semi-presidential system when they are transformation, but the development and experience of their institution’s operation and stability are apparent different. This article will analyze the reason that result this position. This thesis also confers the comparison of three countries, I compare the position of their democratic consolidation since they are democratization from 1989 to present. After comparing, I found some viewpoints among them. First of all, just from the effect and process of transformation, Poland is the best, and Ukraine is better than Russia. And then, I found the theory of Giovanni Sartori about semi-presidential system is not absolutely accurate. Satori stand for the oscillation effect is the character of semi-presidential regime that is the government power will depend on the result of parliamentary election and oscillate between president and parliament. But according to my research, I found the oscillation effect is just only the character of “premier-presidentialism” like Poland’s institution, not conclude Russia and Ukraine before Orange Revolution. The finally, I found that in many patterns of semi-presidential regimes in Eastern Europe, just “premier-presidentialism” will advantage democratic consolidation
SODEV, Spas-Dimitrov. ""L'aspect européen de la notion de service public" : étude comparée portant sur la République Tchéque et la Bulgarie." Doctoral thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5634.
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