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List of contents
I. Conceptualizing pressure and change in constitutional adjudication
Chapter 1: Introduction - Contemporary challenges of constitutional adjudication in Europe - Zoltán Szente and Fruzsina Gárdos-Orosz
Chapter 2: The Resistance of Constitutional Standards to the New Economic and Social Challenges and the Legitimacy of Constitutional Review in a Contemporary European Context - Michel Verpeaux
II. Coping with challenges by national courts
Chapter 3: Croatian constitutional adjudication in times of stress - Djordje Gardasevic
Chapter 4: Remarks on the case-law of the French Constitutional Council in relation to new challenges - Fabrice Hourquebie
Chapter 5: Beware of disruptions – The Bundesverfassungsgericht as Supporter of Change and Anchor of Stability - Veith Mehde
Chapter 6: From submission to reaction: The Greek Courts’ stance on the financial crisis - Apostolos Vlachogiannis
Chapter 7: Judicial deference or political loyalty? The Hungarian Constitutional Court’s role in tackling crisis situations - Zoltán Szente and Fruzsina Gárdos-Orosz
Chapter 8: Global markets, terrorism and immigration: Italy between a troubled economy and a Constitutional crisis - Ines Ciolli
Chapter 9: Constitutional judiciary in crisis. The case of Poland - Mirosław Granat
Chapter 10: Constitutional law and crisis: the Portuguese Constitutional Court under pressure? - Mariana Canotilho
Chapter 11: Constitutional Courts under Pressure – New Challenges to Constitutional Adjudication. The Case of Spain - Francisco Balaguer Callejón
Chapter 12: National Security and the Limits of Judicial Protection - Patrick Birkinshaw
Chapter 13: The UK Supreme Court and Parliament: Judicial and Political Dialogues - John Eldowney
III. Responding to challenges on European level
Chapter 14: New challenges for constitutional adjudication in Europe: What role could the ‘dialogue of courts’ play? - Tania Groppi
Chapter 15: The negotiating function of the European Court of Human Rights: Reconciling diverging interests born from new European challenges - Beatrice Delzangles
Chapter 16: The crisis, judicial power and EU law: could it have been managed differently by the EU Court of Justice? - Márton Varju
IV. Constitutional courts under pressure – A European comparison
Chapter 17: Constitutional courts under pressure – An assessment - Zoltán Szente and Fruzsina Gárdos-Orosz
About the author
Professor Zoltán Szente, Research Chair, Institute for Legal Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Professor of Constitutional Law, National University of Public Service, Budapest, Hungary.
Fruzsina Gárdos-Orosz, Senior Research Fellow, Director of the Institute for Legal Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor, National University of Public Service, Budapest, Hungary.
Summary
This book examines how new challenges such as the financial crisis, terrorism, mass migration and other country-specific problems have affected constitutional review in Europe. Adopting a common analytical structure, it examines how the issues have been addressed in ten individual countries.
