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Parliamentary Supremacy versus Judicial SupremacyHow can adversarial judicial, public, and political dialogue be institutionalised?

The battles between proponents and opponents of judicial supremacy have recently intensified in the US and also in Europe. I summarise the debates in political philosophy, legal theory and ... Social and Political Philosophy (Faculty of Humanities) and of Sociology (Faculty of Social Sciences) at the University from anonymous reviewers and from Leonard Besselink, Nik de Boer, Bas Schotel, Marcel

Fundamental Rights and the EU Internal Market: Just how Fundamental are the EU Treaty Freedoms?A Normative Enquiry Based on John Rawls’ Political Philosophy

fundamental rights. It uses the political philosophy of John Rawls to assess why we should attach priority to certain rights and which rights should therefore be considered fundamental rights. On this basis it ... important, and be very careful in allowing restrictions on fundamental rights for the purpose of protecting this market access. This article uses the political philosophy of John Rawls and his philosophical

Online Political Microtargeting: Promises and Threats for Democracy

Online political microtargeting involves monitoring people’s online behaviour, and using the collected data, sometimes enriched with other data, to show people-targeted political advertisements ... . Introduction Political campaigns are increasingly combining data-driven voter research with personalised political advertising: online political microtargeting.1 Through political microtargeting, a political

Musical Metaverse: vision, opportunities, and challenges

behaviors [ 99 ] and examined a variety of potential bias in the use of artificial intelligence techniques applied to musical signals [ 100, 101 ]. Some have discussed political issues inherent in new ... promote political ideas through their music. However, this could also generate censorship issues by authorities. 6 Conclusions In this paper, we aimed to investigate not only the potentials of

My smart home: an auto-ethnography of learning to live with smart technologies

cultural-discursive, material-economic, and social-political arrangements. In studying learning in relation to specific practices, it is possible to identify different types of learning forms as these ... : self-indulgence or rigorous methodology? In: McNamee IM (ed) Philosophy and the Sciences of Exercise, Health and Sport: Critical Perspectives on Research Methods. Routledge , pp 177 - 191 . https

Confucius computer: a philosophical digital agent for intergenerational philosophical play

Confucianism is commonly defined as “... a system of philosophical, ethical and political thought based on the teachings of Confucius,” which originated through the teachings of Confucius during the ... through it from one generation to the next2. Confucianism is commonly defined as system of philosophical, ethical and political thought based on the teachings of Confucius ([10] cited in [24]), which has

The (Political) Pursuit of Victim Voice:(Comparative) Observations on the Dutch Draft on the Adviesrecht

? needs used within the political debate may be featured as a homogeneous concept, the legal traditions that need to host victim-oriented arrangements differ. Indeed, the apparent political consensus with ... Victim Support was, however, felt to be beneficial.41 Nevertheless, the expansion of the oral VIS remained a contentious issue within the Dutch debate. In the wake of the political debate with regard to

Ciao AI: the Italian adaptation and validation of the Chatbot Usability Scale

Chatbot-based tools are becoming pervasive in multiple domains from commercial websites to rehabilitation applications. Only recently, an eleven-item satisfaction inventory was developed (the ChatBot Usability Scale, BUS-11) to help designers in the assessment process of their systems. The BUS-11 has been validated in multiple contexts and languages, i.e., English, German, Dutch...

The Virtuality of Territorial Borders

If architecture is politics, then the rise of data-driven computing systems will transform the course, if not the conditions of possibility for the political. Provoked by the work of artists Ruti ... Toronto Law Journal, no. 2, pp. 196-224. R. Sela & M. Amir (eds.), Extraterritorialities in Occupied Worlds (2016). The distinction between 'politics' and 'the political' stems from C. Lefort, The Political

Perceptive vs reflective: spectator interpretation of multimodal artworks

”, while still maintaining an interest in the extrospective reflective sub-theme. Descriptions that reflected the extrospective reflective sub-theme included accounts such as “A large argument, political

The ‘Social Market Economy’ in a (Heterogeneous) Social Europe: Does it Make a Difference?

financial and migration crises, serves only to highlight the gap between rhetoric and reality. We identify two main reasons for this, namely a lack of legal competence and a lack of political will. We then ... greater calls for the EU to respond to these challenges, at the very time when there is a lack of significant political will to act. These problems are exacerbated by the fact that some perceive the EU to

Between the Dog and the Divine: Resistance and conventionalism in cosmopolitanism

a plan for overcoming them; but in Diogenes a political programme that cannot attain its own ends, and in Zeno a political solution that comes unmoored from its foundations. Today, the International ... defines the cosmopolitanism position as follows: ?The nebulous core shared by all cosmopolitan views is the idea that all human beings, regardless of their political affiliation, are (or can and should be

Problem-Solving Criminal Justice: Developments in England and Wales

essential. The barriers and obstacles preventing a more extensive application of problem-solving criminal justice is also discussed, drawing on points connected to sentencing parameters, ‘political will’ and ... considerations of legal principle and sentencing parameters, issues of politics and ?political will? and on aspects of legal culture. It is argued there are legal cultural impediments to advancing this approach

Trust Law in the Process of Reunifying East and West GermanyHow a legal concept foreign to German law was the solution to merge a socialist and a capitalist economy between 1989 and the present

In the run-up to the Re-Unification of the East and West Germany in the 1990's the governments faced a problem, how do we integrate two political systems without causing a collapse of the economy and ... the communist political system and his teachings shaped the concept of ownership throughout the USSR. Furthermore, as the study of the pre-1990s East German law will show, it was strongly influenced by

Adoption of AI in response to COVID-19—a configurational perspective

) Measurement versus calibration: a set-theoretic approach . In: Box-Steffensmeier JM , Brady HE , Collier D (eds) The Oxford handbook of political methodology . Oxford University Press, pp 174 - 199 . https ... emerging multinationals configure political connections across institutional contexts? Glob Strategy J 8 ( 3 ): 447 - 470 . https://doi.org/10.1002/gsj.1187 76. Greckhamer T , Furnari S , Fiss PC , Aguilera

The Legal Relevance of Constitutional Conventions in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands

Constitutional conventions are rules of political practice accepted as binding by those concerned in the working of the constitution. This peculiar category of constitutional rules occupies an ... conventions are rules of political practice accepted as obligatory by those concerned in the working of the constitution.1 This category of rules occupies a position between mere political practice and

Intra-Unit Minorities in the Context of Ethno-National Federation in Ethiopia

marginalization of intra-unit minorities. The article therefore examines the institutional, political, legal and policy safeguards that exist for intra-unit minorities. It proposes four mechanisms that aim to ... Ethiopia aims to empower politically mobilized ethno-national groups by granting territorial and political autonomy to some of the major groups at constituent unit and local level. The federal system

The Relational Turn in Dutch Administrative Law

of an ?autonomous tradition? in political philosophy that adheres to the ideal of public space as a cooperative venture of autonomous individuals, only bound by the rules that they have set themselves ... development of Dutch administrative law, the ?autonomous? tradition of political and legal artificiality and abstract integrity can be clearly recognized in the legal thought of J.T. Buys (1826-1893) and J.A

The Freedom of the Judge to Express his Personal Opinions and Convictions under the ECHR

express their personal views on religious, political or other subjects, whether it is through speech, writing, wearing religious symbols or membership of an association or church? In this article the limits ... opinions about political, religious, or other matters. The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), judges? organisations and several authors have adopted this line The freedom of the judge is a topical

‘From shack to the Constitutional Court’The litigious disruption of governing global cities

governmental reason originating in the political economic criticism of the police state equips governance with the means of voluntary impotence and, placing the management of the economy at the centre of ... legislation might be reminiscent of Michel Foucault's claim that, as an unanticipated consequence of the inclusion of wo/men's biological life into politics, modern political struggles tend to centre on this