Executive Decision-Making and the Courts: Revisiting the Origins of Modern Judicial Review

Executive Decision-Making and the Courts: Revisiting the Origins of Modern Judicial Review

Edited by TT ARVIND, Richard KIRKHAM, Daithí Mac SÍTHIGH and Lindsay STIRTON

In this book, leading experts from across the common law world assess the impact of four seminal House of Lords judgments decided in the 1960s: Ridge v Baldwin, Padfeld v Minister of Agriculture, Conway v Rimmer, and Anisminic v Foreign Compensation Commission…

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Rule of Law, Common Values, and Illiberal Constitutionalism: Poland and Hungary within the European Union

Rule of Law, Common Values, and Illiberal Constitutionalism: Poland and Hungary within the European Union

Edited by Tímea DRINÓCZI and Agnieszka BIEŃ-KACAŁA

This book challenges the idea that the Rule of Law is still a universal European value given its relatively rapid deterioration in Hungary and Poland, and the apparent inability of the European institutions to adequately address the illiberalization of these Member States.

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Beyond the Republican Revival: Non-Domination, Positive Liberty and Sortition

Beyond the Republican Revival: Non-Domination, Positive Liberty and Sortition

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This is the first book-length treatment of both the non-positive- and the positive-liberty strands of the republican revival in political and constitutional theory. The republican revival, pursued especially over the last few decades, has presented republicanism as an exciting alternative to the dominant tradition of liberalism.

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Tax Law, State-Building and the Constitution

Tax Law, State-Building and the Constitution

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This monograph looks at how tax is intertwined with constitutional law and the state in the UK. It looks at a variety of topics including tax devolution, scrutiny and reform of tax legislation, the protection of taxpayers and the domestic legal processing of international rules and problems.

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Constitutional Idolatry and Democracy: Challenging the Infatuation with Writtenness

Constitutional Idolatry and Democracy: Challenging the Infatuation with Writtenness

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This thought-provoking book investigates the increasingly important subject of constitutional idolatry and its effects on democracy. Focussed around whether the UK should draft a single written constitution, it suggests that constitutions have been drastically and persistently over-sold throughout the years, and that their wider importance and effects are not nearly as significant as constitutional advocates maintain.

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The Impact of European Institutions on the Rule of Law and Democracy - Slovenia and Beyond

The Impact of European Institutions on the Rule of Law and Democracy - Slovenia and Beyond

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Since 2010 the European Union has been plagued by crises of democracy and the rule of law, which have been spreading from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), catching many by surprise. This book argues that the professed success of the 2004 big bang enlargement mirrored the Potemkin villages erected in the new Member States on their accession to Europe.

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Time, Law, and Change - An Interdisciplinary Study

Time, Law, and Change - An Interdisciplinary Study

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Offering a unique perspective on an overlooked subject – the relationship between time, change, and lawmaking – this edited collection brings together world-leading experts to consider how time considerations and social, political and technological change affect the legislative process, the interpretation of laws, the definition of the powers of the government and the ability of legal orders to promote innovation.

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Revolutionary Constitutionalism

Revolutionary Constitutionalism

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This book, the result of a major international conference held at Yale Law School, contains contributions from leading scholars in public law who engage critically with Bruce Ackerman’s path-breaking book, Revolutionary Constitutions: Charismatic Leadership and the Rule of Law. The book also features a rebuttal chapter by Ackerman in which he responds directly to the contributors’ essays.

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