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Is the French Constitutional Council the “guardian of rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution”?

Conferences

George Burdeau’s Ecrits de droit constitutionnel et de science politique

The publication of George Burdeau’s Ecrits de droit constitutionnel (Ed. Panthéon-Assas, Coll. “Les introuvables”; edited by Professor Jean-Marie Denquin) is an opportunity to rediscover the main contributions of George Burdeau to Constitutional Law and (...)
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Is the French Constitutional Council the “guardian of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution”?

Actes du colloque organisé, le 6 mai 2011, par l’Institut de Recherches Carré de Malberg (Université de Strasbourg) et l’Institut Michel Villey (Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas) et ayant eu lieu à Strasbourg.

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Papers

Dissertations

Antoine Meslin : Ivor Jennings: The works of a XXth century constitutionalist

In a time when legal thinking was dominated by the works of Albert Dicey, Ivor Jennings succeeded in developing a new and innovative approach to British public Law, most notably through a functionalist method inspired by the Fabian Society and the (...)
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Conferences

George Burdeau’s Ecrits de droit constitutionnel et de science politique

Is the French Constitutional Council the “guardian of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution”?

Olivier Beaud, Patrick Wachsmann : Opening speech

Denis Baranger : Constitutional Justice and Constitutional Politics in France

Véronique Champeil-Desplats : Does the French Constitutional council have a comprehensive concept of civil liberties?

Jean-Marie Denquin : The contribution of the French Constitutional Council on civil liberties: Rise or Fall of Constitutional Law? An overview

Elina Lemaire : A look behind the curtain of the French Constitutional Council.

Dominique Rousseau : The meaning of “Conseil constitutionnel”: the case of liberties

Valérie Goesel-Le Bihan : The proportionality test and fundamental rights

Olivier Jouanjan : The principle of equality and the French Constitutional council

François Saint-Bonnet : The French Constitutional council’s rulings on the law banning the burqa in public spaces

David Szymczak : The mechanism of “Priority Preliminary rulings” on the issue of constitutionality (QPC) and the European Convention on Human Rights

Patrick Wachsmann : The Oracle of Liberties speaks only once

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Jean Leca : Revisiting George Burdeau’s Works? On the – “outdated ?” – conception of political science retained by a disappointed and nostalgic “constitutional scholar”

Jacky Hummel : Constitutional History and Constitutional Temporality

Franck Laffaille : Costantino Mortati’s substantial sense of the Constitution

Gaëlle Demelemestre : The dynamic conceptualisation of political institutions in the thought of Carl Joachim Friedrich

Brice Crottet : A reformulation of the theory of legal constraints (“Théorie des contraintes juridiques”)

Armel Le Divellec : British constitutional culture at a crossroad : The Fixed Term Parliament Act 2011 and the beginning of a rationalization of the Parliamentary system in the United-Kingdom

Papers

Christoph Möllers : The Guardian of the Distinction: constitutions as an instrument to protect the differences between law and politics

Pierre-Marie Raynal : Revolution and legitimacy: the political dimension of the sociological analysis of Constitutional Law

Dissertations

Antoine Meslin : Ivor Jennings: The works of a XXth century constitutionalist

Book reviews

Grégoire Bigot : Philippe Pichot-Bravard, Conserver l’ordre constitutionnel (XVIe–XIXe siècles). Les discours, les organes et les procédés juridiques, préface de François Saint-Bonnet, Paris, LGDJ, Bibliothèque d’histoire du droit et droit romain, tome 24, 2011, 519 p.

Catherine Colliot-Thélène : Sylvie Hürstel, Au nom de Hegel. Les juristes néo-hégéliens et la philosophie du droit de la République de Weimar au Troisième Reich, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2010

Alain Laquièze : Guillaume Glénard, L’exécutif et la constitution de 1791, Paris, PUF, Coll. Leviathan, 2010, 503p.

Archives

Armel Le Divellec : Bagehot and the functions of British Parliament. The origins of an idea of constitutional thought

Walter Bagehot, The Non-legislative Functions of Parliament (1860)

Walter Bagehot, The Unseen Work of Parliament (1861)

Fixed Term Parliaments Act 2011