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Variation in EU external policies as a virtue: EU rule of law promotion in the neighbourhood Ghent University
The scholarship on European Union external relations ties good performance to enhanced coherence across EU policies, often understood as uniformity, and interprets any sign of variation as incoherence and double standards. This article challenges the virtuousness of such uniformity in the case of EU rule of law promotion in the neighbourhood and examines the parameters of the possible and the necessary. The findings reveal that variation in EU ...
Rule of law and institutional legitimacy : challenges of transition, challenges of Europe Ghent University
Necessity knows no law in contaminated times: the rule of law under pandemic police and pandemic legislation Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Abstract: The Contaminated Rule of LawThe COVID crisis was tackled in Belgium with an emergency procedure of ministerial decrees, relying on the 2007 Civil Security Law, a law that is actually intended to allow for quick and temporary intervention in case of disasters such as large explosions or fires. Despite the Council of State' findings ("this law allows curfews"), this law is both inappropriate and dangerous: without parliamentary debate, ...
Inescapable partners: the European Union and the Council of Europe as rule of law promoters in Ukraine Ghent University
Sometimes even easy rule of law cases make bad law University of Antwerp
Chinese Perspectives on the International Rule of Law. Law and Politics in the One-Party State KU Leuven
Governing Security Under the Rule of Law? Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This volume brings together a set of novel approaches to the governance of security. In the age of postnational terrorism and post 9/11 surveillance societies traditional perspectives seem to miss the point. On the one hand, normative theories like that of Beccaria require serious re-construction to still provide normative guidance as to the role and the limits of the criminal law. On the other hand, notions like that of risk-assessment run into ...