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European Public Law
European public law today calls for a thick comparative exercise in light of the European legal space. This contribution deepens this concept of European public law by engaging with past projects, in particular those advanced under the specific term, European public law, or rather its Latin and French equivalents: Ius publicum europaeum and droit public de l'Europe. Indeed, the French and Latin equivalents carry a far thicker legacy and calls for engaging with a number of dubious projects, not least Carl Schmitt's, to better grasp our contemporary situation.
Cynical International Law?
Analysing international law through the prism of “cynicism” makes it possible to look beyond overt disregard for international law, currently discussed in terms of a backlash or crisis. The concept allows to analyse and criticise structural features and specific uses of international law that seem detrimental to international law in a more subtle way. Unlike its ancient predecessor, cynicism nowadays refers not to a bold critique of power but to uses and abuses of international law that pursue one-sided interests tacitly disregarding the legal structure applied. From this point of view, the contributions critically reflect on the theoretical foundations of international law, in particular its relationship to power, actors such as the International Law Commission and international judges, and specific fields, including international human rights, humanitarian, criminal, tax and investment law.
Principled Resistance to ECtHR Judgments - A New Paradigm?
The book analyses the position of the ECtHR which has been more and more confronted with criticism coming from the national sphere, including the judiciary. This culminated in constitutional court judgments declaring a particular ECtHR judgment non-executable, for reasons of constitutional law. Existing scholarship does not differentiate enough between cases of mere political unwillingness to execute an ECtHR judgment and cases where execution is blocked for legal reasons (mainly of constitutional law nature). At the same time, the discussion under EU law on national/constitutional identity limiting the reach of the former has been only loosely linked with the ECHR context. This book presents a new dogmatic concept - 'principled resistance' - to analyse such cases. Taking up examples from the national level, it strives to find out whether the legal reasoning behind 'principled resistance' shows enough commonalities in order to qualify such incidents as expression of a 'new paradigm'.
Verfassungsrechtsentwicklung aus rechtstatsächlicher Perspektive
Das Buch analysiert die tragenden Säulen der Verfassungsrechtsentwicklung auf empirischer Grundlage. Es baut dabei auf den Theorien Poppers, Kuhns und Kelsens auf und passt diese an, um die theoretische Erfassung von Staatsrecht als beobachtbares soziales Phänomen zu maximieren. Dieser Ansatz findet Verwendung, um neues Licht auf verschiedene Aspekte der Verfassungsentwicklung zu werfen, konkret auf die Ursprünge in und aktuelle Verflechtung mit dem europäischen Rechtsraum; das System des Grundrechtsschutzes mit besonderer Beachtung der Kommunikations- und Religionsfreiheit; das System der Gerichtsbarkeit öffentlichen Rechts; und die generell-abstrakte Dimension gerichtlicher Rechtschöpfung. Dies erlaubt Rückschlüsse auf eine Theorie der rechtstatsächlichen Verfasstheit. Dabei wird die besondere Rolle von Paradigmen für den Ursprung, die Stabilisierung und das Ende von autopoietischen Systemen positiven Staatsrechts deutlich.
The Law of Interactions Between International Organizations
The book analyses how international law addresses interactions between international organizations. In labour governance, these interactions are ubiquitous. They offer each organization an opportunity to promote its model of labour governance, yet simultaneously expose it to adverse influence from others. The book captures this ambivalence and examines the capacity of international law to mitigate it. Based on detailed case studies of mutual influence between the International Labour Organization, the World Bank, and the Council of Europe, the book offers an in-depth analysis of the pertinent law and its key challenges, both at institutional and inter-organizational level. The author envisions a law of inter-organizational interactions as a normative framework structuring interactions and enhancing the effectiveness and legitimacy of multi-institutional governance.
The Max Planck Handbooks in European Public Law
The Max Planck Handbooks in European Public Law series describes and analyzes the public law of the European legal space, an area that encompasses not only the law of the European Union but also the European Convention on Human Rights and, importantly, the domestic public laws of European states. Recognizing that the ongoing vertical and horizontal processes of European integration render legal comparison the task of our time for both scholars and practitioners, the project aims to foster a better understanding of the specific European legal pluralism and, ultimately, to contribute to the legitimacy and efficiency of European public law. The first volume of the series began this endeavour wi...
Democracy in Its Essence
Hans Kelsen is commonly associated with legal theory and philosophy of law. Democracy in Its Essence: Hans Kelsen as a Political Thinker instead investigates Kelsen’s democratic theory as it developed between the 1920s and 1950s, which challenged the existence of democracies in many different respects. Kelsen provided a critical reflection on the strengths and problems of living within a democratic system, while also defending it against a series of specific targets: from the Soviet regime and Bolshevism to European Fascisms, from religious-based conceptions of politics to those claiming a perfect identity between capitalism and classical liberal institutions, and chiefly against all those...
Defending Checks and Balances in EU Member States
This open access book deals with Article 7 TEU measures, court proceedings, financial sanctions and the EU Rule of Law Framework to protect EU values with a particular focus on checks and balances in EU Member States. It analyses substantive standards, powers, procedures as well as the consequences and implications of the various instruments. It combines the analysis of the European level, be it the EU or the Council of Europe, with that of the national level, in particular in Hungary and Poland. The LM judgment of the European Court of Justice is made subject to detailed scrutiny.
Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit und Demokratie
Verfassungsgerichte stehen derzeit als Mit- und Gegenspieler demokratischer Entscheidungen im Fokus. Ein Blick nach Polen, Ungarn oder hinsichtlich der Bundespräsidentschaftswahl nach Österreich zeigt das fragile Zusammenspiel von Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit und Demokratie in einer Zeit, in der sich das politische Koordinatensystem verschiebt und »illiberale Demokratien« vermehrt Zuspruch finden. Die Autoren analysieren, welchen politischen Zugriffen Richter und Gerichte angesichts geänderter politischer Verhältnisse ausgesetzt sein und wie Verfassungsgerichte wiederum unter dem Deckmantel des angeblich unpolitischen Rechts Politik machen können. Die verschiedenen Rollen(zuschreibungen) der Gerichte haben sowohl auf die nationalstaatliche als auch auf die europäische Politik Auswirkungen.
