Recent confrontations between constitutional courts and parliamentary majorities in several European countries have attracted international interest in the rela

This is a completely revised and updated second edition of Rights Before Courts (2005, paper edition 2008). This book carefully examines the most recent wave of

Recent confrontations between constitutional courts and parliamentary majorities in several European countries have attracted international interest in the rela

How can the power of constitutional judges to overturn parliamentary choices on the basis of their own reading of the constitution, be reconciled with fundament

The recent developments in central and eastern Europe have changed the political landscape of the world. The dissolution of the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and