EU enlargement and the constitutional principle of judicial independence

Spreading Democracy and the Rule of Law?: The Impact of EU Enlargement on the Rule of Law, Democracy and Constitutionalism in Post-Communist Legal Orders

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 313-334

  Smilov, Daniel ^a,b  

^a Centre for Liberal Strategies   (Bulgaria)

^b CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

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EID: 77649328439     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3842-9_15     Document Type: Chapter

References (13)

1. For a recent, very illuminating discussion of the institutionalization of the principle of judicial independence in the major established western democracies, see Carlo Guarnieri and Patrizia Pederzoli, The Power of Judges: A Comparative Study of Courts and Democracy, (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2002).
2. See also S. Shetreet and J. Deschenes (eds.), Judicial Independence: The Contemporary Debate (Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 1985).
3. http://europa.eu.int/comm/enlargement/report2001/(Section 1 a, Overall Development).
4. http://europa.eu.int/comm/enlargement/report2002/lven.pdf, p. 22.
5. http://europa.eu.int/comm/enlargement/report2002/czen.pdf, p. 22.
6. EUMAP, "Judicial Independence", in Judicial Independence in the EU Accession Process (Budapest: Open Society Institute 2001), p. 26.
7. http://europa.eu.int/comm/enlargement/report2002/bu en.pdf, p. 24.
8. http://europa.eu.int/comm/enlargement/report2002/strategy en.pdf.
9. http://europa.eu.int/comm/enlargement/report2001/(c) (Administrative capacity beyond accession).
10. "Integration and Integrity in the Legal Reasoning of the European Court of Justice", in Grainne de Burca and J. H. H. Weiler (eds.), The European Court of Justice (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2001), p. 82.
11. Jeremy Waldron, Law and Disagreement (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1999).
12. Martin Shapiro, Courts: A Comparative and Political Analysis (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1981).
13. See Wojciech Sadurski, "Legitimacy and Reasons of Constitutional Review after Communism", in Wojciech Sadurski (ed.), Constitutional Justice, East and West (The Hague, London, New York: Kluwer Law International 2002).