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Marking the centenary of the death of Albert Venn Dicey, this book addresses Dicey’s work and its continued influence today from a variety of perspectives. 

 

This book includes a general report and a series of special national reports that discuss trends in the judicial enforcement of economic, social and cultural rights worldwide.

This book brings together specialists from more than 20 countries and focuses on the institutional, political, economic and social factors which determine the crisis of liberal democracies.

Presenting the main principles as well as the fundamental rules of Polish constitutional law and its relationship with European law, this book allows to discover and understand the specificities of the constitutional history of Poland within the European Union.

This book examines the rise of populist constitutionalism and the main trends that have led to the current, ongoing crises in liberal democracy. Combining theoretical contributions, comparative typologies and important case studies, the spread of populism and illiberal democracy in Europe is critically explored.

The book analyzes European budgetary law and the constraints on all Member States before showing the diversity of national situations. The new proposal for a multiannual financial framework 2021-2027 is also discussed.

The papers contained in this book explore the content and the effects of the European legal provisions and standards on the local governance and public services in France and Croatia.

This book addresses a problem of great scientific and practical interest for South-Eastern European countries, related to the relationship of “business-government” and the role of social enterprises.

There is an increasing debate on the way in which the EU has developed and what it must look like in the future. This debate includes a discussion on one of the core aspects of European integration: at which level should the rules be set and who decides where the authority to do so should lie? Private law has an important role to play in this discussion. Many private law rules touch on the core of the internal market as they serve to foster trade or to offer protection to market participants, such as consumers.

Sources of Constitutional Law contains a selection of constitutions and fundamental legislative instruments from five Western democracies: the United States, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

Is it necessary and just that parliamentarians are immune from legal action? If so, to what extent is such immunity justified and which purpose does it serve? These questions touch the very core of constitutional law. This book contains a comprehensive study of parliamentary immunity in the United Kingdom, France and the Netherlands.

In this book, the authors analyse the ambiguity of the notion of security and its tendency to expand and affect simultaneously different fields of law. More specifically, they address the militarisation of the fight against terrorism, the distinction between administrative and penal sanctions, the limits of intelligence activities and the scope of criminalisation.