Laurent Pech
Biographic Data
| ID | 1699766 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laurent Pech |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laurent |
| FAMILY NAME | Pech |
| SIGNATURE | PECH L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Middlesex University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1608-1285 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Henri Gignoux: Une stratégie spatiale originale d’un industriel du XIXe siècle dans les Alpes du sud
Entre 1880 et 1931, la stratégie spatiale de l’entrepreneur Henri Gignoux se traduit par le développement de plusieurs activités industrielles dans le secteur du Buëch, dans les Alpes du sud. Les productions de glace naturelle, d’une eau minérale gazeuse, de l’hydroélectricité sont complétées par une scierie utilisée pour la fabrication des emballages des blocs de glace et des bouteilles d’eau gazeuse exportées dans tout le sud-est de la France m…
Illiberal Democracy and EU Law: Is There Such a Thing as “Illiberal Democracy” and Is it Compatible with EU Membership
Hungary’s Prime Minister since 2010 has long defended the transformation of Hungary into an “illiberal democracy,” the first of its kind in the European Union. In September 2022, for the first time in the history of the EU, the European Parliament adopted a resolution which concluded that Hungary had ceased to be a democracy to become an electoral autocracy. This paper will show that “illiberal democracy” is merely a euphemism for authoritarian p…
Reconciling Theory and Practice of the Rule of Law in the European Union
The Rule of Law as a Well-Established and Well-Defined Principle of EU Law
Against increasing rule of law backsliding within the EU, the European Commission has presented the rule of law as a well-established and well-defined principle whose core meaning is furthermore shared as a common value among all Member States. In refute, the national governments of the two EU countries, which are both subject to special EU procedures on account of the systemic threat to the rule of law their repeated actions have caused, have cl…
Poland’s Rule of Law Breakdown: A Five-Year Assessment of EU’s (In)Action
Illiberalism Within: Rule of Law Backsliding in the EU
How should the European Union cope with Member States that no longer respect the basic values of the Union? This article reviews the responses of the major European Union institutions to Poland and Hungary as their governments removed checks on their power, eliminated the independence of judiciaries and failed to honour their European commitments. As the article demonstrates, the responses of EU institutions have so far been ineffective in bringi…
Better Late than Never? On the European Commission's Rule of Law Framework and its First Activation
This article first offers an overview of the European Commission's Rule of Law Framework, which was adopted in March 2014. The mechanism's potential effectiveness and the Commission's reasoning to justify its first activation against Poland in January 2016, when it has failed to do so against Hungary, are subsequently analyzed. While the Commission should be commended for seeking to address increasing rule of law backsliding at Member State level…
Introduction: The Great Rule of Law Debate in the EU
Faced with what has been labeled ‘rule of law backsliding’ in some EU countries, EU institutions have sought to address the rise of ‘illiberal regimes’ via existing mechanisms as well as new instruments. This introductory contribution offers an overview of the problem and a brief summary of the papers to follow and which were first presented at a workshop co‐organized by the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law and Middlesex University London
France’s Burning Issue: Understanding the Urban Riots of November 2005
On the Thursday night of 27 October 2005, two adolescents from Clichy-sous-Bois, in the Parisian suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis, were electrocuted after entering an electrical power station in order to avoid a police check. On that same night, clashes erupted between local youths and the police, and 23 vehicles were torched. The next day, the then minister of the interior, Nicolas Sarkozy exonerated the police services from all responsibility in wha…
Social Rights Jurisprudence: Emerging Trends in International and Comparative Law
In the space of two decades, social rights have emerged from the shadows and margins of human rights jurisprudence. The authors in this book provide a critical analysis of almost two thousand judgments and decisions from twenty-nine national and international jurisdictions. The breadth of the decisions is vast, from the resettlement of evictees to the regulation of private medical plans to the development of state programs to address poverty and …
The Solution to the 'Democratic Deficit: A New Type of Governance for the European Union
Without radically upsetting the institutional and political balance of the Union, the Commission's White Paper on Governance, published 25 July 2001, proposes a new basis for the EU's institutional legitimacy. However, this conceptual re-foundation gives rise to new and fundamental questions. To speak of governance within democracy is indeed unthinkable unless 'governance' is redefined as a form of government where the legitimacy of public action…
Better Late than Never? On the European Commission's Rule of Law Framework and its First Activation
This article first offers an overview of the European Commission's Rule of Law Framework, which was adopted in March 2014. The mechanism's potential effectiveness and the Commission's reasoning to justify its first activation against Poland in January 2016, when it has failed to do so against Hungary, are subsequently analyzed. While the Commission should be commended for seeking to address increasing rule of law backsliding at Member State level…
Introduction: The Great Rule of Law Debate in the EU
Faced with what has been labeled ‘rule of law backsliding’ in some EU countries, EU institutions have sought to address the rise of ‘illiberal regimes’ via existing mechanisms as well as new instruments. This introductory contribution offers an overview of the problem and a brief summary of the papers to follow and which were first presented at a workshop co‐organized by the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law and Middlesex University London
The Solution to the 'Democratic Deficit: A New Type of Governance for the European Union
Without radically upsetting the institutional and political balance of the Union, the Commission's White Paper on Governance, published 25 July 2001, proposes a new basis for the EU's institutional legitimacy. However, this conceptual re-foundation gives rise to new and fundamental questions. To speak of governance within democracy is indeed unthinkable unless 'governance' is redefined as a form of government where the legitimacy of public action…
The Solution to the 'Democratic Deficit: A New Type of Governance for the European Union
Without radically upsetting the institutional and political balance of the Union, the Commission's White Paper on Governance, published 25 July 2001, proposes a new basis for the EU's institutional legitimacy. However, this conceptual re-foundation gives rise to new and fundamental questions. To speak of governance within democracy is indeed unthinkable unless 'governance' is redefined as a form of government where the legitimacy of public action…
Social Rights Jurisprudence: Emerging Trends in International and Comparative Law
In the space of two decades, social rights have emerged from the shadows and margins of human rights jurisprudence. The authors in this book provide a critical analysis of almost two thousand judgments and decisions from twenty-nine national and international jurisdictions. The breadth of the decisions is vast, from the resettlement of evictees to the regulation of private medical plans to the development of state programs to address poverty and …
France’s Burning Issue: Understanding the Urban Riots of November 2005
On the Thursday night of 27 October 2005, two adolescents from Clichy-sous-Bois, in the Parisian suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis, were electrocuted after entering an electrical power station in order to avoid a police check. On that same night, clashes erupted between local youths and the police, and 23 vehicles were torched. The next day, the then minister of the interior, Nicolas Sarkozy exonerated the police services from all responsibility in wha…
Better Late than Never? On the European Commission's Rule of Law Framework and its First Activation
This article first offers an overview of the European Commission's Rule of Law Framework, which was adopted in March 2014. The mechanism's potential effectiveness and the Commission's reasoning to justify its first activation against Poland in January 2016, when it has failed to do so against Hungary, are subsequently analyzed. While the Commission should be commended for seeking to address increasing rule of law backsliding at Member State level…
Introduction: The Great Rule of Law Debate in the EU
Faced with what has been labeled ‘rule of law backsliding’ in some EU countries, EU institutions have sought to address the rise of ‘illiberal regimes’ via existing mechanisms as well as new instruments. This introductory contribution offers an overview of the problem and a brief summary of the papers to follow and which were first presented at a workshop co‐organized by the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law and Middlesex University London
Illiberalism Within: Rule of Law Backsliding in the EU
How should the European Union cope with Member States that no longer respect the basic values of the Union? This article reviews the responses of the major European Union institutions to Poland and Hungary as their governments removed checks on their power, eliminated the independence of judiciaries and failed to honour their European commitments. As the article demonstrates, the responses of EU institutions have so far been ineffective in bringi…
Poland’s Rule of Law Breakdown: A Five-Year Assessment of EU’s (In)Action
Reconciling Theory and Practice of the Rule of Law in the European Union
The Rule of Law as a Well-Established and Well-Defined Principle of EU Law
Against increasing rule of law backsliding within the EU, the European Commission has presented the rule of law as a well-established and well-defined principle whose core meaning is furthermore shared as a common value among all Member States. In refute, the national governments of the two EU countries, which are both subject to special EU procedures on account of the systemic threat to the rule of law their repeated actions have caused, have cl…
Illiberal Democracy and EU Law: Is There Such a Thing as “Illiberal Democracy” and Is it Compatible with EU Membership
Hungary’s Prime Minister since 2010 has long defended the transformation of Hungary into an “illiberal democracy,” the first of its kind in the European Union. In September 2022, for the first time in the history of the EU, the European Parliament adopted a resolution which concluded that Hungary had ceased to be a democracy to become an electoral autocracy. This paper will show that “illiberal democracy” is merely a euphemism for authoritarian p…
Henri Gignoux: Une stratégie spatiale originale d’un industriel du XIXe siècle dans les Alpes du sud
Entre 1880 et 1931, la stratégie spatiale de l’entrepreneur Henri Gignoux se traduit par le développement de plusieurs activités industrielles dans le secteur du Buëch, dans les Alpes du sud. Les productions de glace naturelle, d’une eau minérale gazeuse, de l’hydroélectricité sont complétées par une scierie utilisée pour la fabrication des emballages des blocs de glace et des bouteilles d’eau gazeuse exportées dans tout le sud-est de la France m…
Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Law and economics (8 works) · European and International Law Studies (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Rule of law (6 works) · European union (5 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Economics (4 works)