Category: <span>Panel Paper</span>
DEMOCRACY AND REPRODUCTION
The panel explores the challenges faced by public institutions in dealing with abortion regulation. David Kenny will address the ongoing debate on the repeal of the 8th Amendment of the Irish constitution; Antonia Baraggia will compare the current abortion regulation in US and Europe under a constitutional point of view, arguing that federalism may be...
GPS INVESTIGATIONS IN JAPAN
This panel reviews GPS investigations in Japan. In 2017, the Japanese Supreme Court held that warrantless GPS searches are illegal. This case shows the boundary of permissible investigation using high technology. Rapidly developing technology challenges legal research. The Japanese Constitution has no term for “privacy,“ and its notion and scope have been questioned in Japan....
JUDICIAL REVIEW AS CONTESTATION – FORMS AND JUSTIFICATIONS
This panel considers theoretical justifications for the institution of judicial review as democratic contestation, as well as the forms of judicial review that those justifications might suggest. The papers are connected by their apparent reliance on non-epistemic justifications; that is, justifications that recognize that judges have neither abnormal moral insight nor abnormal capacity to reason...