Central European Judges Under the European Influence : The Transformative Power of the EU Revisited

Abstract

Prologue: The Westernisation of the East and the Easternisation of the West Hans-W Micklitz 1. Introduction: Revisiting the Transformative Power of Europe Michal Bobek Part I: Judicial Reasoning 2. Formalism in Judicial Reasoning: Is Central and Eastern Europe a Special Case? Peter Cserne 3. EU Law and Central European Judges: Administrative Judiciaries in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland Ten Years after Accession Marcin Matczak, Matyas Bencze and Zdenek Kuhn 4. The Impact of EU Membership on Private Law Adjudication in Poland: A Case Study of the Polish Supreme Court's Case Law on Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Rafal Manko 5. The Aversion to Judicial Discretion in Civil Procedure in Post-Communist Countries: Can the Influence of EU Law Change it? Ales Galic 6. The Remains of the Authoritarian Mentality within the Slovene Judiciary Jan Zobec and Jernej Letnar Cernic 7. From a Discourse on 'Communist Legacy' Towards Capacity Building to Better Manage the Rule of Law Bostjan Zalar Part II: Institutions and Procedures 8. 'Euro-products' and Institutional Reform in Central and Eastern Europe: A Critical Study in Judicial Councils Michal Bobek and David Kosar 9. The Impossibility of Being a National and a European Judge at the Same Time: Doctrinal Rifts Between Hungarian and EU Administrative Law Marton Varju and Andras Gyorgy Kovacs 10. Changes in the Level of the National Judicial Protection Under the EU Influence on the Example of the Polish Legal System Nina Poltorak 11. When David Teaches EU Law to Goliath: A Generational Upheaval in the Making Alexander Kornezov 12. Who are the Actors Mobilising Discourse among Courts? Erhard Blankenburg 13. Transformation in the Eye of the Beholder Matej Avbelj Part III: Constitutional Courts 14. Invalidity of EU Law before the Polish Constitutional Tribunal: Court of Old Closure(s) or New Opening(s)? Tomasz Tadeusz Koncewicz 15. Constitutional Sovereignty in Post-Sovereign Jurisprudence of the Czech Constitutional Court: From the Lisbon Judgments to the Landtova Ultra Vires Controversy Jiri Priban 16. 'Keeping the Faith' : The Trials and Tribulations of the Hungarian Constitutional Court in Following its European Vocation Allan F Tatham 17. Central and Eastern European Constitutional Courts Facing New Challenges: Ten Years of Experience Marek Safjan 18. Conclusions: Of Form and Substance in Central European Judicial Transitions Michal Bobek