Rechtsstaatlichkeit in Europa: Unabhängigkeit der Justiz und wirksame Rechtsmittel | Rule of Law in Europe: Judicial independence and effective remedies | État de droit en Europe: indépendance de la justice et recours effectifs

This special issue is the result of a conference organized in cooperation with the University of Luxembourg by SIPE on the very notion of the Rechtsstaatlichkeit in Europa / the rule of law in Europe / l’État de droit en Europe focusing therein on judicial independence and effective remedies. The contributions reflect various perspectives on the notions of the rule of law in Europe, especially its protection by the hands of courts and tribunals as independent bodies designed to review executive and, in most states, also legislative action for their compliance with constitutional principles and values. The contributions all display a broad understanding of notions contained in the rule of law obliging to ensure a separation of powers, an effective judicial protection, principles of a system of democratic government as well as the protection of individual human rights and fundamental freedoms. The rule of law in this understanding goes well beyond an adherence to the principle of legality and reaches also into substantive norms and institutional and structural principles of the organisation of the exercise of public powers.The existence and defense of this broad understanding of the rule of law is also deeply embedded in the very existence of the Council of Europe and its Convention on Human Rights.

With contributions by
Prof. Dr. Maria Lúcia Amaral | Prof. Dr. Constance Grewe | Prof. Dr. Herwig C.H. Hofmann, M.Jur. (Oxon) | Prof. em. Dr. Julia Iliopoulos-Strangas | Prof. Dr. Irena Lipowicz | Prof. Dr. Eleftheria Neframi | Prof. DDr. Angelika Nußberger | GA Athanasios Rantos | Prof. Dr. Dean Spielmann | Prof. Dr. Elena Simina Tanasescu | Prof. Dr. Jacques Ziller