KOSAŘ, David and Michal BOBEK. Global Solutions, Local Damages: A Critical Study in Judicial Councils in Central and Eastern Europe. German Law Journal. Lexington: Washington & Lee University School of Law, 2014, vol. 15, No 7, p. 1257-1292, 45 pp. ISSN 2071-8322.
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Original name Global Solutions, Local Damages: A Critical Study in Judicial Councils in Central and Eastern Europe
Authors KOSAŘ, David (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Michal BOBEK (203 Czech Republic).
Edition German Law Journal, Lexington, Washington & Lee University School of Law, 2014, 2071-8322.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 50500 5.5 Law
Country of publisher United States of America
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14220/14:00077896
Organization unit Faculty of Law
Keywords in English International standards; soft law; European Union; Council of Europe; administration of courts; judicial councils; court presidents; judges; Central and Eastern Europe; transition; law exportation
Tags rivok
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: prof. JUDr. David Kosař, Ph.D., LL.M., J. S. D., učo 4775. Changed: 27/12/2014 23:35.
Abstract
This article examines why, how, and with what results have judicial councils spread under the influence of European institutions throughout Central and Eastern Europe in the course of the last twenty years. It first traces back how the judicial councils, themselves just one possible form of administration of courts, have emerged as the recommended universal solution Europe-wide and internationally. Second, it discusses how has this model been exported under the patronage of European and international institutions to transition countries in Central and Eastern Europe. Assessing, thirdly, the reality of the functioning of such new judicial councils in these countries, in particular in Slovakia and Hungary, with the Czech Republic without a judicial council providing a counter-example, it is suggested that their impact on further judicial and legal transition has been either questionable or outright disastrous. This brings, eventually, into question the legitimacy as well as the bare reasonableness of the entire process of European/international standards setting and their later marketing or in reality rather imposition onto the countries in transition.
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