Networking the rule of Law

how change agents reshape judicial governance in the EU

Judicial networks have proved effective in influencing recent judicial policies enacted by both old and new EU member states. However, this influence has not been standard. This volume seeks to improve our understanding of how networks function, as well as the extent they matter in ...

Democracy Law and governance

This book concerns the transformation of the modes of governance of contemporary developed democracies and aims to define the conditions required for the promotion of the public interest in these democracies' public policy. It has two goals - firstly to show why a sound theoretical appraoch ...

Judicial accountabilities in New Europe

from rule of Law to quality of justice

This volume focuses on a highly challenging aspect of all European democracies, namely the issue of combining guarantees of judicial independence and mechanisms of judicial accountability. It does so by filling the gap in European scholarship between the two policy sectors of enlargement and judicial ...