Conor CASEY: Hungarian Constitutionalism as Classical Constitutionalism? Reflections from an Interested Observer
Inspired by two earlier posts penned about the Hungarian Fundamental Law and constitutional interpretation by my friend Márton Sulyok, here I offer some thoughts on the topic as a comparative constitutional law scholar working within the natural law tradition. My...
Mark David HALL: ‘Christian Nationalism’: An Existential Threat to America and the World?[1]
In the traditional telling of the tale, an acorn falls on Chicken Little’s head and she runs around wildly telling all who will listen that the sky is falling. Since January 6, 2020, a host of polemicists and a few social scientists have been loudly proclaiming that...
Charles KECKLER: Independent Agencies as Reverse Parliaments: A Reconciliation of Paradoxes
At times, European constitutional discourse contributes to American discussions about the administrative state and looks at the work of independent agencies and similar institutions. Offering an American point of view of this field inspired by European institutions is...
Mónika MERCZ: Your DNA is the key to cold cases
Do you listen to true crime podcasts? If so, you have probably heard about cold cases such as the Boy in the Box, the Lady of the dunes and Opelika Jane Doe. The common feature of these cases? These victims have all been identified using genetic genealogy (DNA) - but...
Márton SULYOK: Hungarian Footnotes for American Debates on Common Good Constitutionalism – Part II.
Constitutional Case-Law in the Land of (Missed) Opportunities After the introduction laid out in my earlier post on Hungarian Footnotes to the US CGC debate regarding judicial interpretation and the common good, (here), in the following I will present some of the...
Boglárka BÓLYA: Could technology pave the way to a more democratic European Union?
One of the most basic principles of political thought is the fact that the essence of democracy, as the term's origins reveal, entails the notion of giving the power of ruling (kratos) to the people (demos). Yet, to this day, the purest form of democracy, known as...
Márton SULYOK: Hungarian Footnotes for American Debates on Common Good Constitutionalism
Judicial Interpretation and the Common Good Whether or not this was his original intent, HLS Law Professor Adrian Vermuele stirred some waves by publishing his theory of Common Good Constitutionalism (CGC) arguing against the original method of American constitutional...
Lilla Nóra KISS – Mónika MERCZ: A Win-Win Approach in Human Rights Advocacy? Lessons from “Human dignity and law. Studies on the dignity of human life”
Towards a Dignified Discourse on Human Rights? The universal respect for human rights should be the tie that binds, not divides our societies. Unfortunately, the currently raging conflict in Ukraine, the rising global tensions as well as the increasing shift in how...
István ÜVEGES: Social and political implications of the use of artificial intelligence in social media
Artificial intelligence-based algorithms are now of inescapable importance in many fields. Their applications include automatic content recommendation systems for streaming providers, chatbots (e.g. ChatGPT), Google's search interface, etc. The applications listed...
Vagelis PAPAKONSTANTINOU: The (New) Role of States in a ‘States-As-Platforms’ Approach
The forceful invasion of “online platforms” not only into our everyday lives but also into the EU legislator’s agenda, most visibly through the DSA and DMA regulatory initiatives, perhaps opened up another approach to state theory: what if states could also be viewed...
Mónika MERCZ: Privacy and Combatting Online Child Sexual Abuse – A Collision Course?
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) adopted a Joint Opinion on the Proposal for a Regulation to prevent and combat child sexual abuse on the 29th of July, 2022. While this has not made huge waves in the public...
Márton CSAPODI: Integration without control? The FCC has ruled on EU borrowing
On 6 December 2022, the German Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) ruled on a case affecting the whole of Europe, as it had to decide whether the EU Council’s Own Resources Decision (ORD), which authorizes the Commission to borrow up to €750 billion on behalf of the...
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