Comparative Obligations… Limitation of Actions in the Slovenian Law of Obligations: Judges as Harbingers of Spring?, by Karmen Lutman 7 Feb 202512 Feb 2025 1. Introduction In a time of rapid social changes, civil codes might seem like fossils. Although it is considered that they should be amended with a delicate touch, occasional reforms…
Comparative criminal law… Juries, Lay Judges, and Mixed Courts: A Global Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2021) Edited by Sanja Kutnjak Ivković, Shari Seidman Diamond, Valerie P. Hans, and Nancy S. Marder 4 Nov 20223 Nov 2022 Introduction Most countries around the world use professional judges, but many also rely on lay citizens, untrained in the law, to decide criminal cases. What percent of the countries in…
Comparative administrative law… Environmental norm diffusion and domestic legal innovation: The case of specialized environmental courts and tribunals (RECIEL 2022), by J. Michael Angstadt 20 May 202218 May 2022 Environmental court diffusion: mechanisms and meaning Why are specialist environmental courts proliferating around the world? In recent years, researchers have observed a steady increase in these institutions (sometimes also referred…
Comparative constitutional law… Judicial Law-Making in European Constitutional Courts (Routledge 2020), edited by Monika Florczak-Wątor 11 Mar 20228 Feb 2022 Research aims and hypothesis Constitutional courts determine the shape of the legal order, not only by derogating unconstitutional norms but also by modifying and supplementing those norms that remain as…
Judges and comparison Disciplining Judges: Contemporary Challenges and Controversies (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2021), by Richard Devlin & Sheila Wildeman (eds) 21 Jan 20225 Jan 2022 Governance of the judiciary has long been marked by a level of public impenetrability that is reinforced by judicial independence. However, the institution is also premised on a political criterion:…
Comparison in Europe… New Project on cross-citations between Supreme Courts in Europe, by Mathias Siems 24 Sep 202127 Aug 2021 Recent years have seen a growing volume of research on citations between courts from different countries (in the following: cross-citations) and other forms of judicial dialogue. For example, books by…
Comparative constitutional law… Guillaume Tusseau, Contentieux constitutionnel comparé. Une introduction critique au droit processuel constitutionnel, Paris La Défense, Lextenso, 2021, 1452 p. 27 Jul 202119 Jul 2021 In the last few months, several constitutional judges have made the headlines. Among others, the German Federal Constitutional Court has opposed the European Central Bank’s Public Sector Purchase Programme, leading…
Environment… Climate Change Litigation: Global Perspectives, by Ivano ALOGNA 25 Jun 202114 Jun 2021 The title refers both to our presentation during the last BACL Annual Seminar and our newly published edited volume (I. Alogna, C. Bakker and J.-P. Gauci (eds), Climate Change Litigation:…
Comparative constitutional law… Social Media, Fundamental Rights and Courts in Europe, by Evangelia Psychogiopoulou and Federica Casarosa 18 Jun 20212 Jul 2021 Social media has become the means of communication of our time: it is the means through which online users interact, express their opinions, get information and even find jobs. Social…
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