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Procedural-type Review: A More Neutral Approach to Human Rights Protection by the European Court of Human Rights?
No full textThe European Court of Human Rights appears to be increasingly applying procedural-type review. This means that the Court looks into the quality of the decision-making process of the national legislative, executive or judicial authority to determine whether there has been a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights. This paper addresses the questions whether and to what extent this procedural approach of the Court can be regarded as a more neutral approach towards the political choices of the European States, when compared to an approach where the Court looks into the substantive balance struck in the national authorities’ decisions. For analysing the potential neutrality of procedural-type review, this paper develops a theoretical framework on the basis of Martti Koskenniemi’s theory on the neutrality of international law. On the basis of this framework, it concludes that although procedural-type review as an abstract review method could be considered as a relatively neutral approach of the Strasbourg Court towards the political choices of States, in practice the approach loses much of its initial neutral potential
Margin of Appreciation and Incrementalism in the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights
No full textFundamental rights standards in Europe diverge as a result of differences in legal traditions, constitutional values and historical developments. The European Court of Human Rights therefore faces the challenge of having to balance the need for uniform and effective rights protection with respect for diversity. It is often thought that the famous margin of appreciation doctrine is the Court’s main tool in finding this balance. This article shows, however, that the Court’s application of the doctrine has made it into a rather empty rhetorical device. This appears to be different for the Court’s use of incrementalism, which increasingly appears to have replaced the margin of appreciation doctrine as an instrument to reconcile European protection of fundamental rights and national diversity. The article concludes by showing how the Court could further benefit from this strategy of incrementalism, while still maintaining a role for the margin of appreciation doctrine
A. Cuyvers, The EU as a Confederal Union of Member Peoples. Exploring the potential of American (con)federalism and popular sovereignty for a constitutional theory of the EU, diss. Leiden
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Over soevereiniteit en Europese integratie: Het belang van zuiver redeneren
No full textIn het debat over Europa gaat het veelvuldig over soevereiniteit. Maar wordt het begrip soevereiniteit in dat debat wel altijd op een zuivere manier gebruikt? Auteur meent van niet. En dat is jammer. Want die onzuiverheid is funest voor het debat over Europa
Annotatie bij ABRvS 28 augustus 2013
No full textAB 2014/20: Relativiteitsvereiste. Art. 83 Wet geluidhinder strekt niet tot bescherming van de appellanten
The Irrelevance of the Netherlands Constitution, and the Impossibility of Changing It
No full textAlthough the bicentennial anniversary of the Netherlands Constitution was exuberantly celebrated in 2014, the document itself appears to be of increasingly little practical and symbolic value. Many efforts have been made over the past two decades to change this, but thus far none of these has been successful. This article aims to explain the apparent irrelevance of the Netherlands Constitution, and it probes into the feasibility of changing this situation
Taverne and separation of powers
No full textVVD Kamerlid Joost Taverne lijkt een voorliefde te hebben voor het opschudden van de trias politica. In 2012 stelde hij een, nog steeds in behandeling zijnde, controversiële wijziging voor van artikel 94 Grondwet die beoogt wetten uit te zonderen van de toetsingsbevoegdheid van de rechter aan ieder verbindende verdragsrechtelijke bepalingen. In zijn onlangs ingediende voorstel tot wijziging van de Rijkswet goedkeuring en bekendmaking verdragen gaat de parlementariër subtieler te werk. Maar ook met dit voorstel wordt geschud aan de Trias. Hoe stevig en met welke implicaties, wordt hier onderzocht
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