ISSN: 2036-5438
- 1. Troubled Legacies: The Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023 and the Thin Line Between Impunity and Reconciliation
- (Essay)
- ... (no. 5310/71). On the other hand, the High Court of Belfast declared several provisions of the Legacy Act 2023 in violation of the ECHR, a decision later upheld by the Court of Appeal. Almost a year after ...
- Created on 18 June 2025
- 2. Energotehnica: Primacy and Effective Judicial Protection Beyond the Rule of Law Crisis
- (Note)
- ... (C-792/22) reaffirms the primacy of EU law over national constitutional court rulings, explicitly declaring Romania’s Constitutional Court decision on the binding force of administrative findings in criminal ...
- Created on 04 December 2024
- 3. Two Western Canadian Provinces Asserting Provincial Sovereignty Seek to Challenge the Fundamentals of Canadian Constitutional Democracy and Order
- (Essay)
- ... regardless of the norms of the Canadian constitution. The Supreme Court of Canada, in a landmark decision in 1999 rejected the claim as a violation of the fundamental unwritten principles of the Canadian ...
- Created on 31 July 2024
- 4. Fiscal Decentralization in Federal Systems: A Comparative Story of a Principle and its Paradigms
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- Alice Valdeslici The paper endeavors to revise and reframe the traditional categories established in the studies on fiscal federalism. It does so by embracing a comparative constitutional law viewpoint ...
- Created on 25 July 2024
- 5. Indefinite detention of refugees ruled unconstitutional by the High Court of Australia – an opportunity for Europe to pause for thought?
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- Jock Gardiner and Silvia Talavera Lodos The High Court of Australia recently handed down the landmark decision of NZYQ, ruling the policy of indefinitely detaining non-citizen, non-visa holders ...
- Created on 05 March 2024
- 6. Marching in line through the crisis or setting one’s own course in fighting the Covid-19 pandemic? A comparison of six policies, 16 states and two shutdowns in the German federation
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- ... These agreements led to uniform regulations in some periods and policies, but still left room for the states’ own (and potentially different) strategies and decisions in others. Thus, from the perspective ...
- Created on 15 December 2022
- 7. Intellectual Prejudice and Institutional Shortcomings. The Risks for the Next Generation EU
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- Despite the fact that during the pandemic emergency the European Union managed to provide an ambitious and courageous response, in contrast to previous decisions, the intergovernmental method undermines ...
- Created on 04 April 2022