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1st Edition

Citation Networks of European Constitutional Courts Asymmetric Judicial Dialogues

Edited By Lando Kirchmair, Lisa Lechner Copyright 2027

406 Pages 37 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

Description

This book is located at the intersection of constitutional law and political science and uses legal network analysis to shed light on hitherto unseen aspects of the citation practices among constitutional courts in Europe. The collection enhances our understanding as to why certain European constitutional courts refer more and others less to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and... Read more

Table of Contents

1. Introduction. What Is Legal (Citation) Network Analysis and to What Purpose is it Pursued in European Constitutional Law?

Lando Kirchmair, Lisa Lechner and Isabel Staudinger

Part I – Southern and Western National European Constitutional Courts

2. The Austrian Constitutional Court: Supranationally Oriented, but Comparatively One-Sided

Lando Kirchmair, Lisa Lechner, Isabel Staudinger, Georg Berger, Christoph Ivanusch, Christian Schwaderer and Sarah Weiler

3. Citation Behaviour of the Belgian Constitutional Court: A Predominant Supranational Perspective

Jan Theunis

4. The French Constitutional Council: On the Margins of Contemporary Transconstitutional Dynamics

Guillaume Tusseau

5. Unrequited Love or Secret Passion? The German Federal Constitutional Court’s Approach to Comparativism

Alexander Tischbirek

6. The Italian Constitutional Court: A Long Journey Towards (Asymmetric) openness

Tanja Groppi and Valentina Carlino

7. The Portuguese Constitutional Court: From a Good Pupil to a Cosmopolitan Court?

Catarina Santos Botelho and Nuno Garoupa

8. The Spanish Constitutional Court and European Judicial Interaction Patterns: A Tale of Two Ends

Joan Solanes

Part II – Central and Eastern National European Constitutional Courts

9. The Bulgarian Constitutional Court and its Increasing Appetite for Engagement in Judicial Cross-Referencing

Martin Belov and Aleksandar Tsekov

10. The Czech Constitutional Court at its Thirtieth Anniversary: Looking at Citation Patterns of Three Decades

Zdeněk Kühn

11. Reluctance and Randomness: A case study on the foreign law citation practice of the Hungarian Constitutional Court

Eszter Bodnár and András Jakab

12. Transnational Legal Echoes: Assessing Foreign Court Impacts on the Polish Constitutional Court’s jurisprudence

Monika Florczak-Wątor

13. Conclusion

Lando Kirchmair and Lisa Lechner

Annex

Editor(s)

Biography

Lando Kirchmair is Euregio Endowed Chair in Sustainability and Mobility Law at the Department of Theory and Future of Law at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

Lisa Lechner is Assistant Professor in Methodology and Methods for Political Science at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

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