The legislation is dynamic action and phases, pre-legislative, legislative and post-legislative. I have studied post-legislative doctrine, legal norm control, typical to the European Union legal order. I have studied more closer the art. 263 TFEU and 267b TFEU of the Union and relevant case law (Digital Rights, Vodafone etc.). As conclusions the most important aspect...
Constitutional Intent and Reflexive Identity
The paper attempts to show how constitutional intent and the reflexive character of constitutional identity are intertwined. The first section explains the notion of constituent power as the ultimate source of a legal order. The second section explores the triple singularity of constituent power. First, it has a reflexive identity which means that “it relates...
Displacing Private Law: The Growing Dominance of Public Law in South Asia
This article examines how private law has been displaced across four South Asian: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. As courts in these jurisdictions have recognized a greater number of rights within the sphere of public constitutional law, there has been a corresponding displacement of private law. Indeed, some areas of private law, such as...
Hart, Bentham, and Constitutionalism
Hart claims that Bentham‘s theory of law is a command theory; and that Bentham‘s theory cannot explain ‘legally limited supreme legislature‘ [LLSL]. His claim assumes that judicial review is the archetype of LLSL. I attempt a threefold task. First, I will present Bentham‘s explanation of judicial review, and argue that for Bentham, judicial review is...
Public Law in the Time of Oxymora
“Private identity“, “flexicurity“, “representative democracy“, are but three concept that have recently been qualified as oxymora or paradoxes, ie “figures of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction“. The occurrence of legal oxymora is not new as there are hundreds of mentions by judges in case law across the United States alone. In...