Constitutional Evolution in Central and Eastern Europe : Expansion and Integration in the EU.

This book examines EU enlargement by studying how domestic constitutional evolution in the new member states contributes to European integration. Contrasting to the usual top-down analytical pattern, this volume reverses the paradigm by looking at constitutional developments and dynamics from the bo...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Topidi, Kyriaki
Other Authors: Morawa, Alexander H. E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham : Ashgate Pub., 2011.
Series:Studies in modern law and policy.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Contributors; Foreword by Lech Garlicki; Acknowledgements; 1 Prologue: Constitutional Transition in Central and Eastern Europe; Part I Foundations and Methods of Constitutional Dialogue in CEE; 2 Estonia as an EU Member State: Lack of Pro-active Constitutional Dialogue; 3 The Constitutionalization of EU Law in Romanian Jurisprudence; 4 Fundamental Rights in the EU's Post-enlargement Landscape: An Exercise in Constitutional Translation?; Part II The Role of Courts in the New Legal Order.
  • 5 Constitutional Pluralism and Judicial Cooperation in the EU after the Eastern Enlargements: A Case Study of the Czech and Slo6 The Constitutional versus the European Role of the Judiciary in Poland; 7 Structural Inconveniencies of the Treaty of Lisbon in the Czech Republic; 8 Kafka, Kelsen and Supremacy: How European Courts Could Interact with a View to Fostering Constitutionalism; Part III The Rule of Law and Policy-Making in ECC after Enlargement; 9 Raising the Standard? The Current Challenges in Human Rights Protection in Hungary.
  • 10 Constitutionalization and the Media in Post-enlargement Central and Eastern Europe11 The Rule of Law and the Rise of Populism: A Case Study of Post-Accession Bulgaria; Index.