Informal Judicial Institutions: Invisible Determinants of Democratic Decay (INFINITY)
- Kód projektu
- 101002660
- Období řešení
- 9/2021 - 8/2026
- Investor / Programový rámec / typ projektu
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Evropská unie
- Horizon 2020
- ERC (Excellent Science)
- Fakulta / Pracoviště MU
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Právnická fakulta
- doc. JUDr. David Kosař, Ph.D., LL.M., J. S. D.
- Mgr. Adam Blisa
- Mgr. Lukáš Hamřík, Ph.D.
- Etienne Hanelt, M.A.
- Mgr. Ondřej Kadlec, J.D., MPhil, Ph.D.
- Mathieu Leloup, PhD, LL.M.
- Mgr. Bc. Jan Petrov, Ph.D., LL.M.
- Mgr. Hubert Smekal, Ph.D.
- Samuel Spáč, Ph.D., M.A.
- Mgr. et Mgr. Katarína Šipulová, Ph.D., MSt
- Mgr. et Mgr. Marína Urbániková, Ph.D.
- PD Dr. Attila Vincze, LL.M.
Mainstream literature on courts and judges in law (as well as in political science) focuses primarily on formal rules. Yet in many contexts, informal institutions, ranging from bureaucratic and legislative norms to clientelism and patrimonialism, shape even more strongly judicial behavior and outcomes. Various “gentlemen’s pacts” between judicial associations may compete with or even substitute formal rules governing selection and promotion of judges. They may entrench patronage and vertical as well horizontal gender segregation or allow a smooth court-packing. Similarly, politically savvy chief justices can tweak the formal rules and forge alliances with politicians, for the good as well as for the bad. Recent literature has acknowledged the existence of these informal institutions. However, the range of these informal institutions and their effects are not fully understood, as the traditional doctrinal and normative scholarship is not able to capture them. INFINITY will fill this gap and address the implications of this phenomenon for the “new” as well as “old” EU member states.
The central research question of INFINITY is: how informal institutions affect functioning of the judiciary? More specifically, the INFINITY proposal consists of three interrelated research aims. The first aim is to identify the most important informal judicial institutions in the “new” as well as “old” EU member states and at the two European supranational courts. The second aim is to assess the impact of selected informal institutions on the domestic judiciaries of 8 European states and on the ECtHR and the CJEU. The third overarching aim is to analyse the reasons and mechanisms behind the emergence of informal institutions, and the nature of their stability and change in different political environments.
Publikace
Počet publikací: 6
2022
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Unsere Gedanken sind Sprengstoff – Zum Vorrang des Europarechts in der Rechtsprechung des ungarischen Verfassungsgerichts
Europäische GRUNDRECHTE-Zeitschrift, rok: 2022, ročník: 49, vydání: 1
2021
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Reakce autora: Sjednocování ano! Ale čeho, kým a jak?
Jurisprudence, rok: 2021, ročník: 30, vydání: 5
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Reforming to Please: A Comprehensive Explanation for Non-Exit from the European Court of Human Rights
European Constitutional Law Review, rok: 2021, ročník: 17, vydání: 4, DOI
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The Family Friendliness That Wasn’t: Access, but Not Progress, for Women in the Czech Judiciary
Law & Social Inquiry, rok: 2021, ročník: Neuveden, vydání: December, DOI
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The Hungarian Constitutional Court and the Central European University Case: Justice Delayed is Justice Denied Decision of the Hungarian Constitutional Court of 6 July 2021 and the Judgment of the ECJ of 6 October 2020, Case C-66/18
European constitutional law review, rok: 2021, ročník: 17, vydání: 4, DOI
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Velké senáty – neviditelní tvůrci práva
Jurisprudence, rok: 2021, ročník: 2021, vydání: 5