Kelsen Versus Kelsen: Democracy Or Constitutional Democracy?
This paper seeks to offer food for thought on the current state of democracy in modern states starting from Kelsen’s thought as a liberal thinker.
Towards a theory of transnational judicial review in European administrative law
In the cases of Berlioz (2017) and Donnellan (2018), the European Court of Justice has required national judges, under certain conditions, to carry out the transnational judicial review of preparatory acts adopted....
The recovery plan under the scrutiny of the German constitutional court: institutional implications and a lesson from the past
The article offers a critical analysis of the German Constitutional Court’s decision of 15 April 2021 on the law ratifying the Own Resources of the European Union Decision. Two central problems are highlighted.
Smart public law. Automation and decentralisation of public power: smart contracts and the blockchain as stepping stones for a digital and polycentric good administration?
This article sheds light on two blind spots of the debate on the automation of administrative decision-making: the impact of automation on the principles of good administration and the ongoing decentralization of administrative adjudication in public procurement and public services through smart contracts and blockchain.