Ronan McCrea
Biographic Data
| ID | 5579261 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ronan McCrea |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ronan |
| FAMILY NAME | McCrea |
| SIGNATURE | MCCREA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Girls Incorporated |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Democratic Backsliding and the Unravelling of the EU Legal Order
The political world of the EU has often been accused of being a Potemkin village. It had a flag, a parliament and elections, but behind this faade the voters were not really engaged. 1 This has fueled a tendency to easily perceive existential crises for the Union. With no real European demos, EU political institutions were seen as hollow and commentators found it easy to predict that they would be swept away when faced with a serious political pr…
Singing from the Same Hymn Sheet? What the Differences between the Strasbourg and Luxembourg Courts Tell Us about Religious Freedom, Non-Discrimination, and the Secular State
This article considers how the approach of the European Union (EU) and its Court of Justice to religion maps on to that of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). It will show that there is a high degree of convergence but that the broader remit of the Luxembourg Court means that its approach to religion will not be restricted to following that of the ECtHR. In particular, there is scope for significant differences between the two courts on t…
Secularism before the Strasbourg Court
The justification for the restrictions on religion inherent in secularism is the subject of lively debate in constitutional and political theory. As a rights‐focused text, the ECHR struggles to accommodate constitutional principles such as secularism whose aims and justifications may go beyond the protection of the rights of others and include abstract goals such as upholding the religious neutrality of the state. Rights alone cannot provide an a…
Religion in the Workplace
The E uropean C ourt of H uman R ights judgment in Eweida and Others v United Kingdom dealt with the increasingly controversial questions of religious symbols at work and the clash between free conscience and anti‐discrimination norms. In a change of approach, it held that the right to resign could no longer be seen as adequate protection for religious freedom and that workplace norms that restrict religious liberty must satisfy a proportionality…
The Law of Organized Religions
Secularism before the Strasbourg Court
The justification for the restrictions on religion inherent in secularism is the subject of lively debate in constitutional and political theory. As a rights‐focused text, the ECHR struggles to accommodate constitutional principles such as secularism whose aims and justifications may go beyond the protection of the rights of others and include abstract goals such as upholding the religious neutrality of the state. Rights alone cannot provide an a…
Religion in the Workplace
The E uropean C ourt of H uman R ights judgment in Eweida and Others v United Kingdom dealt with the increasingly controversial questions of religious symbols at work and the clash between free conscience and anti‐discrimination norms. In a change of approach, it held that the right to resign could no longer be seen as adequate protection for religious freedom and that workplace norms that restrict religious liberty must satisfy a proportionality…
The Law of Organized Religions
Religion in the Workplace
The E uropean C ourt of H uman R ights judgment in Eweida and Others v United Kingdom dealt with the increasingly controversial questions of religious symbols at work and the clash between free conscience and anti‐discrimination norms. In a change of approach, it held that the right to resign could no longer be seen as adequate protection for religious freedom and that workplace norms that restrict religious liberty must satisfy a proportionality…
Singing from the Same Hymn Sheet? What the Differences between the Strasbourg and Luxembourg Courts Tell Us about Religious Freedom, Non-Discrimination, and the Secular State
This article considers how the approach of the European Union (EU) and its Court of Justice to religion maps on to that of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). It will show that there is a high degree of convergence but that the broader remit of the Luxembourg Court means that its approach to religion will not be restricted to following that of the ECtHR. In particular, there is scope for significant differences between the two courts on t…
Secularism before the Strasbourg Court
The justification for the restrictions on religion inherent in secularism is the subject of lively debate in constitutional and political theory. As a rights‐focused text, the ECHR struggles to accommodate constitutional principles such as secularism whose aims and justifications may go beyond the protection of the rights of others and include abstract goals such as upholding the religious neutrality of the state. Rights alone cannot provide an a…
Democratic Backsliding and the Unravelling of the EU Legal Order
The political world of the EU has often been accused of being a Potemkin village. It had a flag, a parliament and elections, but behind this faade the voters were not really engaged. 1 This has fueled a tendency to easily perceive existential crises for the Union. With no real European demos, EU political institutions were seen as hollow and commentators found it easy to predict that they would be swept away when faced with a serious political pr…
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Religious Freedom and Discrimination (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Democracy (2 works) · European union (2 works) · Human rights (2 works) · Secularism (2 works)