1st Edition

Constitutional Review in Central and Eastern Europe Judicial-Legislative Relations in Comparative Perspective

Edited By Kálmán Pócza Copyright 2024
330 Pages 67 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

330 Pages 67 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

330 Pages 67 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Recent confrontations between constitutional courts and parliamentary majorities in several European countries have attracted international interest in the relationship between the judiciary and the legislature. Some political actors have argued that courts have assumed too much power and politics has been extremely judicialized. This volume accurately and systematically examines the extent to... Read more

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1. Constitutional review and judicial-legislative relations in new democracies, Kálmán Pócza – Márton Csapodi – Gábor Dobos – Attila Gyulai

2. The Croatian Constitutional Court: From a potentially powerful court to a court of rejections, Monika Glavina

3. The Czech Constitutional Court: The inconspicuous constrainer, Katarina Šipulová and Alžbeta Králová

4. The Estonian Supreme Court: strength by pragmatic collegiality, Paloma Krõõt Tupay

5. The Hungarian Constitutional Court: Dialogue in practice, Attila Gyulai – Gábor Dobos – Kálmán Pócza

6. The Latvian Constitutional Court: Dialogue and cooperation among constitutional bodies, Anita Rodiņa – Dita Plepa

7. The Lithuanian Constitutional Court: The gradual emergence of a strong guardian, Dovilė Pūraitė-Andrikienė

8. The Polish Constitutional Tribunal: Encountering Politics, Artur Wolek – Iga Jeziorska

9. The Romanian Constitutional Court: Layers of constitutional adjudication, Csongor Kuti

10. The Slovak Constitutional Court: The promise of Dworkinian adjudication?, Max Steuer – Erik Láštic

11. The Slovenian Constitutional Court: Courage in times of political instability, Polona Batagelj

12. Central and Eastern European constitutional courts in comparative perspective 1990-2020, Kálmán Pócza – Márton Csapodi – Gábor Dobos – Attila Gyulai

Biography

Kálmán Pócza is Senior Research Fellow at the Ludovika University of Public Service in Budapest, Research Institute for Politics and Government, and Head of the Center for Constitutional Politics at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium, Hungary. He is the Principal Investigator of the JUDICON-EU project.