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An integrated model for criminal responsibility in action: How Swedish criminal law operates without an insanity defence
In nearly all criminal justice systems, a defendant’s severe mental disorder can trigger special rules that excuse or exempt the defendant. Swedish...
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Preserving the Rule of Law Through Transnational Soft Law: The Cooperation and Verification Mechanism
This contribution reflects on the role of soft law instruments to address the rule of law crisis, a topic of high relevance in the context of this...
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EU Enlargement Policy Goes East: Historical and Comparative Takes on the EU’s Rule of Law Conditionality vis-à-vis Ukraine
The article discusses a unique case of the EU’s application of rule of law conditionality vis-à-vis Ukraine, while the latter is in active war with...
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Quick Fix Solutions-Anticorruption as Core/Peripheral Modality of the ‘Rule of Law’
Anticorruption has become the fulcrum of conditionalities for unstable democracies. In the EU, antigraft packages formed the common denominator of...
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Courts and Populist Electoral Politics – the Case of Hungary
Elections are devices, through which the abstract concept of representation gains its specified institutional form, therefore they are highly...
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On the Mode of Existence of Mute Law and the Inference of Cryptotypes
A widespread thesis in the analytical theory of law is that norms exist as linguistic entities. Rodolfo Sacco is one of the authors who have most...
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Rodolfo Sacco and the Multiple Relations Between Law and Language
Rodolfo Sacco has devoted much of his research to the relations between law and language. His analysis were focused on the problem of legal...
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Militant Rule of Law and Not-so-Bad Law
The article provides intellectual arguments and tools from legal dogmatics that can help to counter the rule of law backlash. It argues that...
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Externalising Refoulement Through New Technologies: The Case of Frontex’s Specific Situational Pictures under the Lens of EU Non-Contractual Liability
Specific situational pictures are interfaces centralising continuously updated information about the situation at the external borders of the EU and...
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Climate adaptation law: a European perspective
In contrast to climate protection law, which regulates the mitigation of climate change, climate adaptation law deals with the management of the...
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The Special Procedures of the UN Human Rights Council and the Catalan Secession Process
The Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council fulfil their mandates by performing certain tasks as independent experts, with the responsibility...
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What is Legal Reasoning?
Pursuant to the aims and scope of the Special Issue it is part of, this invited contribution seeks to shed new light on the nature and working logic...
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Challenging Externalization by Means of Article 4 ECHR: Towards New Avenues of Litigation for Victims of Human Trafficking?
The externalization of migration control undermines the protection of victims of trafficking in human beings. Pushbacks and pullbacks at sea, as well...
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Enforcing Emergency Arbitral Awards: Global and Indian Perspectives
Due to the increasing recognition and significance of emergency arbitration (EA) in the business and trade community in recent decades, almost all...
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International Media Coverage of Domestic Legal News: The Case of the Dispute over the Presidential Pardon Power in Poland
This paper analyses the international media coverage of the dispute surrounding the pardons the Polish President granted in 2015 to two politicians,...
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Challenging Externalisation Through the Lens of the Human Right to Leave
Around the world, externalised migration controls continue to proliferate, leading to host of human rights harms for migrants. Migrants (and...
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“Peru v. Ecuador”
1. The international transportation of passengers and goods by road is a fundamental factor in making viable the free movement of goods and people, a...
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Law, Emotion and Property Relations
Emotion is inherent in our everyday use and ownership of property. It may drive neighbours to litigate a boundary dispute in the courts, or a...