Nordic Reluctance towards Judicial Review under Siege
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12965710 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marlene Wind (0000-0002-1559-9111, University of Copenhagen, corresponding author), Andreas Føllesdal (0000-0002-6419-7071) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 02 |
| Pages | 131-141 |
| Publication date | 2009-08-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nordic Journal of Human Rights (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1891-814X • E-ISSN: 1891-8131 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.18261/issn1891-814x-2009-02-01 |
| OpenAlex | W2198651271 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Is the judicial review in accordance with our democratic sensibilities? In a Nordic context this is a question that has caused much public consternation in all five countries in recent years, most likely because you find courts and constitutionalism appearing almost everywhere you look and because judicial power seems to continue to increase. Not only has the European Court of Justice cemented its powers with the EU’s enlargement and with EU legislation on the rise and becoming increasingly open to interpretation; the Strasbourg court and other international dispute-settlement bodies have also become more powerful. In the Nordic countries, judicial review has generated a wide debate not only among specialists but equally among the wider public. The Nordic states are normally considered to be well functioning, homogenous and stable democracies. They are anti-hierarchical welfare states uncomfortable with rigorous judicial review by courts. Accordingly, controversial and dynamic legal interpretations of vague European treaties and legislation by foreign judges are bound to fan the flames of debate. One of the questions most frequently asked is whether European judicial review can be justified. Like other key mechanisms of legal harmonization in Europe, European judicial review also merits research as a symptom and cause of the reconfiguration of a world order of sovereign states as they move ever closer to a complex, multi-level political and legal regional and global order with fragmented sovereignty; indeed, we seem forced to reconsider traditional conceptions of ‘sovereignty’ and ‘democracy’. Understanding and assessing the variety of impacts of European Judicial Review on national institutions might also shed light on the normative legitimacy of these larger shifts
Constitutionalism · Democracy · Judicial activism · Judicial Independence · Judicial review · Law and economics · Legislation · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · European and International Law Studies · European Union Policy and Governance · International Arbitration and Investment Law · Law
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| Citations per year | 0,31 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
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