Kurven- und Flächen-Verschneidungsmethoden

Lasser, Dieter

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-86836-8_4

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“…116 In his second book, he has used the idea of internal and external constraints on judicial decision-making to analyse the development of judicial decision-making processes in France in light of the evolution of human rights protection in Europe. 117 The richness of these new directions in research shows that constitutional theory allows for a better understanding of legal evolution. The process of legal evolution, in turn, stimulates the further development of constitutional theoretical research.…”

Section: New Paths For Constitutional Theoretical Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding Legal Evolution through Constitutional Theory: The Concept of Constitutional (In-)Flexibility

Mak

2011

Erasmus Law Review

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Why do legal arrangements for the institutions of government (legislative, executive, judicial branches) in Western liberal democracies develop faster, or in a different way, in one jurisdiction in comparison to another? In this article, it is argued that constitutional theory can help us understand the development of these legal institutional arrangements, for example in light of the changing role of national highest courts in the globalised legal context. For this purpose, the concept of constitutional (in-)flexibility is introduced, which can explain how national constitutional frameworks enable or constrain the integration of normative changes in national legal systems. Four elements encompassed by this concept are identified: the detail of constitutional norms, the modalities for revising the national Constitution, the approach to legal argumentation taken by interpreters of the Constitution, and the influence attributed to international law within the national legal system. This analytical framework is applied to the illustrative case of judicial globalisation-concerning, inter alia, the judicial use of non-binding foreign law-to explain similarities and differences concerning the way in which changes affecting the functioning of national highest courts are integrated within different legal systems. This analysis, in turn, yields some insight into the further development of constitutional theory in the era of globalisation.

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Section: New Paths For Constitutional Theoretical Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%