{"title":"Reforming to Please: A Comprehensive Explanation for Non-Exit from the European Court of Human Rights","authors":"Hubert Smekal, N. Tsereteli","doi":"10.1017/S1574019621000377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1574019621000377","url":null,"abstract":"States’ growing dissatisfaction with the performance of the European Court of Human Rights – Governments’ commitment to reform process – Threats of exit that failed to materialise – Adaptation of Hirschman’s exit–voice–loyalty framework to explain states’ non-exit from the European Court of Human Rights – Sufficiently effective voice, manifestations of loyalty, and high costs of exit as possible reasons behind non-exit – Governments’ inability to achieve change in the Court’s practice unilaterally – Divergent perceptions and expectations of governments – Court’s responsiveness to governments’ concerns – Showing the importance of cautious, incremental changes to accommodate diverse governmental expectations on the role of the European Court of Human Rights","PeriodicalId":45815,"journal":{"name":"European Constitutional Law Review","volume":"17 1","pages":"664 - 687"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46586988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Veiled Irreverence of the Italian Constitutional Court and the Contours of the Right to Silence for Natural Persons in Administrative Proceedings","authors":"L. Lonardo","doi":"10.1017/S1574019621000365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1574019621000365","url":null,"abstract":"DB v Consob1 is the first case in which the Court of Justice of the European Union had to decide whether the right to silence is applicable to natural persons in the context of administrative proceedings which may lead to the imposition of a criminal penalty (in casu, on market abuse). Previously, the Court had had the occasion to adjudicate on the right to silence of legal persons in the area of market abuse or breach of competition law.2 The case also provided the Court with an opportunity to clarify an alleged discrepancy between its case law and that of the European Court of Human Rights. The latter appeared to recognise a broad content of the right to silence, including the right to remain silent on purely factual questions, whereas, in the field of competition law, the European Court of","PeriodicalId":45815,"journal":{"name":"European Constitutional Law Review","volume":"17 1","pages":"707 - 723"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47513743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"National Security and Retention of Telecommunications Data in Light of Recent Case Law of the European Courts","authors":"Marcin Rojszczak","doi":"10.1017/S1574019621000353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1574019621000353","url":null,"abstract":"The Court of Justice is once again clarifying the limits of the application of data retention laws – General obligation to retain data exceeds the limits of what is strictly necessary within a democratic society – The national security exception does not preclude a judicial assessment of the legitimacy of its application – The existence of a genuine and specific threat as a premise for the use of untargeted data retention measures – The possibility of searching for the gold standard of data retention based on algorithmic processing – Different perceptions of the Court of Justice position by the referring courts – The Conseil d'État’s position distorts the idea of the protection of fundamental rights that is enshrined in the EU legal order","PeriodicalId":45815,"journal":{"name":"European Constitutional Law Review","volume":"17 1","pages":"607 - 635"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42176591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rethinking Judicial Narratives: The Court of Justice and the Treaty of Rome","authors":"Thomas Horsley","doi":"10.1017/S1574019621000298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1574019621000298","url":null,"abstract":"In Great Judgments of the European Court of Justice, William Phelan invites readers to rethink a selection of the Court of Justice’s formative cases addressing the foundations of the (then) Community legal order. Most of these decisions, such as Van Gend en Loos1 and Costa v ENEL2 are well-known to European legal scholars; others, notably Pork Products,3 Dairy Products4 and Sheep Meat,5 perhaps less so.Great Judgments set its sights on challenging the received account of these decisions as the basis of a ‘new legal order’ in which, atypically among international treaty organisations, private litigants and national courts have acquired direct and powerful roles.6 Asserting that leading scholars have ‘missed the bigger picture’","PeriodicalId":45815,"journal":{"name":"European Constitutional Law Review","volume":"17 1","pages":"553 - 565"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46264175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Open Internet? The Court of Justice of the European Union between Network Neutrality and Zero Rating","authors":"Marta Maroni","doi":"10.1017/S1574019621000341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1574019621000341","url":null,"abstract":"Internet Service Providers (ISPs) provide access to the Internet. Their role is central to the future development of the Internet, fundamental rights, and the information society as a whole. ISPs could block, slow down or favour applications or services. These practices are harmful because they can be deployed to alter the way in which content is transmitted on the Internet, which has repercussions on competition, diversity and pluralism. The EU has laid down measures concerning","PeriodicalId":45815,"journal":{"name":"European Constitutional Law Review","volume":"17 1","pages":"517 - 537"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41646742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Freedom and Power of European Constitutional Scholarship","authors":"J. Komárek","doi":"10.1017/S157401962100033X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S157401962100033X","url":null,"abstract":"=3317406〉 visited 4 October 2021. 87See ECJ (Fourth Chamber) Order of 6 October 2005 in Case C-328/04 Vajnai [2005] ECR I-8577. 88G. de Búrca, J. Morijn andM. Steinbeis, ‘Stand withWojciech Sadurski: his freedom of expression is (y)ours’ Verfassungsblog, 18 November 2019, 〈https://verfassungsblog.de/stand-withwojciech-sadurski-his-freedom-of-expression-is-yours/〉, visited 4 October 2021. 89ECHR (First Section), Application No. 39394/98, judgment of 13 November 2003, ECHR 2003-XI. 90Scharsach and News Verlagsgesellschaft mbH v Austria, § 27. 440 Jan Komárek EuConst 17 (2021)","PeriodicalId":45815,"journal":{"name":"European Constitutional Law Review","volume":"17 1","pages":"422 - 441"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43524687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Who Safeguards the Guardians? A Subjective Right of Judges to their Independence under Article 6(1) ECHR","authors":"Mathieu Leloup","doi":"10.1017/S1574019621000286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1574019621000286","url":null,"abstract":"Time for the European Court of Human Rights to interpret Article 6 ECHR to encompasses a subjective right for domestic judges to their own independence – Overview of the existing case law on the principle of judicial independence – Such a right currently not present in case law – Judges are obliged to frame their complaints, while at their heart independence-related, in terms of other substantive Convention rights – Court cannot properly address one of the fundamental aspects of these cases – Lower protection for the domestic judges – Other international legal orders do include such a subjective right to a judge’s independence – Several arguments for the European Court of Human Rights to similarly acknowledge such a right under the Convention – Few difficulties in integrating such a right into the existing case law","PeriodicalId":45815,"journal":{"name":"European Constitutional Law Review","volume":"17 1","pages":"394 - 421"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48756413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Constitutional Scepticism and Local Facts","authors":"Louis Michael Seidman","doi":"10.1017/s1574019621000316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1574019621000316","url":null,"abstract":"Do written constitutions matter? In his important and provocative book about written constitutions, Brian Christopher Jones seems to say ‘not much’. He takes constitutional idolatry as his target and defines it as ‘drastically and persistently over-selling the importance and effects of written constitutions’ (p. 5). Idolatry of this sort, he warns, ‘turns [constitutions] into false gods of our legal, political and societal communities’ (p. 11). It turns out, though, that Jones is not quite saying what he means. If written constitutions aren’t very important, then they cannot be very evil, and Jones seems to think that their potential for evil is quite large. That potential is central to his opposition to the movement in the United Kingdom favouring the creation of an integrated, written constitution – an opposition that motivates the book. Still, Jones’s initial formulation, misleading as it is, forces us to confront particularistic questions about the circumstances in which constitutions matter, and why and how they matter under those circumstances. After a brief summary of Jones’s argument, the bulk of this review is devoted to suggesting answers to these questions.","PeriodicalId":45815,"journal":{"name":"European Constitutional Law Review","volume":"15 6","pages":"566-579"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138513434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}