How can autonomous apex courts with specific attitudes and role conceptions counter executive aggrandizement? This article theorizes two causal mechanisms through which justices
can resist democratic erosion. The first mechanism involves apex courts employing judicial review to neutralize autocratic legalism by blocking strategies such as [...]
Students of comparative law have long argued that undermining judicial independence is electorally costly, and that the norms against interference uphold institutional checks
and balances essential to constitutionalism. However, evidence from countries with robust judiciaries suggests that exposing voters to deficiencies in the legal process [...]
The article at hand introduces a comprehensive foundational database on the Czech Constitutional Court spanning from its inception in 1993 to 2023. The database includes metadata
on all decisions, full-text corpus, and additional background data on judges and law clerks, filling a gap in high-quality datasets for empirical legal research in [...]
Why would authoritarian rulers allow for an independent judiciary that could constrain their power? This study extends the insurance theory of judicial independence to autocratic
contexts, arguing that when leaders perceive a higher risk of losing office, they become more likely to tolerate or create independent courts as a safeguard against [...]
The EU has a problem: it is lagging behind in technological developments on Artificial Intelligence (AI). To solve it, the EU does what it does best: it regulates. Is this
going to be enough? To attempt an answer, this article examines the foreign affairs ramification of the EU’s AI policy, particularly through the lens of the foreign [...]
This article examines how the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) has shaped climate policy, making the EU the first jurisdiction in the world to introduce a carbon
price outside of its borders. The policy shift linked with the introduction of CBAM is compared with established environmental paradigms: prometheanism/growth unlimited [...]
This paper analyses the EU-China relations in the post-Paris eras, focusing on their role conceptions and relations. As key players in global climate governance, the EU and
China embody distinct roles. While existing literature addresses their individual roles, policy actions, and negotiations, their mutual role perceptions remain underexplored. [...]
In 2012 China and sixteen countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) established at the summit in Warsaw the new cooperation framework known as ‘16 +1’ Platform, ‘16+1’
Framework or ‘16+1’ Format which in 2022 celebrated its tenth anniversary (The sixteen member nations of the ‘16+1 Initiative’ are: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, [...]
