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The impossibility of the rule of law
Published 1999“…No community fully achieves the ideal of the rule of law. Puzzles about the content of the ideal seem to make it necessarily unattainable (and, therefore, an incoherent ideal). …”
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Constitutional reform and the rule of law in Greece
Published 2005“…In the area of constitutional law in Greece, where at least since 1975 there has been a well functioning democracy, the ideal of 'modernisation' must mean adherence to the substantive principles of legality and the rule of law as political ideals. Even though the Simitis government showed some concern for improvement in these areas, the constitutional amendment of 2001 did not attempt to tackle longstanding problems such as civil service corruption, irregularities in public procurement, the independence of the judiciary and the like. …”
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Why the rule of law? A historical perspective
Published 2024“…The paradox is that we believe in the rule of law as that we insist it should constrain power in practical and effective ways to be worth creating at all.…”
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The Gramscian politics of Europe’s rule of law crisis
Published 2023“…The paper explores the long-term trajectory and the recent acceleration of the conflict over the rule of law in the EU. It focusses on the motivation of the two governments in Hungary and Poland to challenge European core values increasingly aggressively even directly at EU level despite the threat of significant material costs to both countries. …”
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The death of law? computationally personalized norms and the rule of law
Published 2021“…The principle of public agency is a prerequisite for the rule of law. The principle of private agency depends on the rule of law. …”
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Author's response to peer commentaries: Mexico's rule of law and MRTs
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The erosion of the rule of law: how populism threatens environmental protection
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The kings of the world and their dukes' dilemma: Globalisation, jurisdiction and the rule of law
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Foreign policy implications for China’s “foreign-related ‘rule of law’”
Published 2023“…In 2020, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched the “foreign-related ‘rule of law” (FROL) reform, a reform that purports to modernize the intersection between Chinese domestic law and foreign and international law. …”
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The Rule of Law and the recovery fund’s conditionality: institutional deadlock or lack of political will?
Published 2020“…<p>The elephant in the room during the recovery fund negotiations was, once again, the rule of law. This paper will address a question of great constitutional importance: is it possible to force Member States to respect the Union’s “fundamental values”? …”
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The enemy within? Article 259 TFEU and the EU's rule of law crisis
Published 2022“…This article explores the role which Member State-led infringement proceedings can play in overcoming the EU’s rule of law crisis, and hypothesizes that it can prove helpful in breaking the current impasse. …”
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Freedom, the Common Good, and the Rule of Law: Lippmann and Hayek on Economic Planning
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The rule of law case against inconsistency and in favour of mandatory civil legal process
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Indeterminate sovereignty and the rule of law: A descriptive analysis of changes to parliament’s use of language
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Mitochondrial replacement techniques and Mexico's rule of law: on the legality of the first maternal spindle transfer case
Published 2017“…In this paper, we explore Mexico's rule of law in relation to mitochondrial replacement techniques and show that, in fact, certain instances of MRTs are prohibited at the federal level and others are prohibited at the state level. …”
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Remote legal research training for the ‘Denmark–Myanmar Programme on Rule of Law and Human Rights’ during the pandemic
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The reason of the law
Published 2003“…A failure in that moral requirement of comity is a failure to attain the rule of law. Because the ideal of the rule of law necessarily has a moral content, there is a necessary connection between law and morality- albeit a modest connection that is compatible with deep moral defects in the law…”
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