Moments of Courage: The Abolition of the Death Penalty by the Hungarian Constitutional Court

Moments of Courage: The Abolition of the Death Penalty by the Hungarian Constitutional Court

Eszter BODNÁR

Selecting a single judgment from the extensive 34-year repository of case law of the Hungarian Constitutional Court (or any court, for that matter) is a task fraught with complexity. To draw a comparison, in 2021, the first Hungarian project, akin to the renowned "Grands arrêts," meticulously curated a collection of the 100 most pivotal cases…

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Not a ‘Usual Suspect’, but Definitely Noteworthy: The Portuguese Constitutional Court and its Landmarks

Not a ‘Usual Suspect’, but Definitely Noteworthy: The Portuguese Constitutional Court and its Landmarks

Catarina SANTOS BOTELHO & Martha VICENTE

This contribution is aimed at unveiling Portugal’s constitutional landmark judgment(s). Selecting a landmark is obviously a methodological endeavour which requires legal scholars to identify and explain the criteria to be used in the process of narrowing down positive candidates…

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Guest Editor’s Introduction: Constitutional Landmark Judgments in Europe

Guest Editor’s Introduction: Constitutional Landmark Judgments in Europe

Eleonora BOTTINI

The Constitutional Landmark Judgments Project has arrived at its sixth season with this new symposium about Europe. The project was sparked by the intuition that explaining the context, the rationale, and the outcome of a landmark case, provides constitutional scholars from other legal systems with a privileged window into understanding a foreign constitutional system…

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