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.
'This book deals with the constitutional adjudication of ten European peak courts and their compliance with European norms from the perspective of the financial crisis, terrorism and migration. The shelf-life of the findings will be long, because these challenges, and the non-compliance with European values seem to stay with us.'
Gábor Halmai, Professor and Chair of Comparative Constitutional Law at the European Univeristy Institute, Florence
'This book presents a remarkable overview in new developments in constitutional adjudication, a field in permanent evolution and constant pressure from diverging issues, including fundamental rights at a time of growing security concern, legislative reforms under conditions of financial crisis and the extension of supranational law. Covering many relevant controversies, this book invites further research and debate.'
Otto Pfersmann, EHESS (Institute for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences), France
'This timely collection provides specialists and non-specialists alike with a very useful account of how constitutional adjudication across Europe has developed and mutated in different ways to address the many cross-cutting challenges facing Europe at present. With its mixture of framing chapters, country case-studies, and thematic analysis of issues such as 'judicial dialogue' and the role of Europe's international 'constitutional' courts - the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) - this book is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the complexities of the judicial role in addressing serious governance challenges and crises.'
Tom Gerald Daly, Fellow of Melbourne Law School and Associate Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law
