1st Edition
Constitutional Review in Western Europe Judicial-Legislative Relations in Comparative Perspective
List of figures. List of tables. List of contributors. Abbreviations Chapter 1: Constitutional review and judicial-legislative relations in established democracies. Chapter 2: The Austrian Constitutional Court: A human rights stronghold despite increasing judicial restraint. Chapter 3: The Belgian Constitutional Court: Navigating between constitutional rights and consociational politics. Chapter 4: The Supreme Court of Cyprus: The centre of gravity within the separation of powers. Chapter 5: The French Constitutional Council: The gradual emergence of a co-legislator? Chapter 6: The German Federal Constitutional Court: A court unbound? Chapter 7: The Superior Courts of Ireland: Judicial restraint in a stable political environment. Chapter 8: The Italian Constitutional Court: A powerful political institution. Chapter 9: The Portuguese Constitutional Court: A cautious but effective judicial body. Chapter 10: The Spanish Constitutional Court: The judicial politics of constitutional review and interpretation. Chapter 11: The United Kingdom Supreme Court: Radical outcomes from gradualist premises. Chapter 12: The Nordic courts: An example of cooperation and dialogue. Chapter 13: Western European constitutional courts in comparative perspective 1990-2020. Index
Biography
Kálmán Pócza is a Senior Research Fellow at the LUDOVIKA University of Public Service in Budapest, Hungary (Research Institute for Government and Politics), and Head of the Center for Constitutional Politics at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium. He is the Principal Investigator of the JUDICON-EU project (https://judiconeu.uni-nke.hu/).
