http://repub.eur.nl/res/aut/14052/ List of Publications en http://repub.eur.nl/static-eur/img/logo.png http://repub.eur.nl http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/17122/ 2009-11-02T00:00:00Z Since its rise at the beginning of the twentieth century, comparative legal research has gained an influential place in legal research concerning national legal systems. Comparative legal methodology is used to acquire insight into foreign legal systems, to find solutions for problems of a specific legal system, or to promote the unifi cation of law between national legal systems. Its methods consist of a comparison of different legal systems or legal traditions (external comparison), or of fields of law within national legal systems (internal comparison). With the proliferation of regulatory regimes at the international level (e.g. in the context of the United Nations or the WTO), comparative legal research has expanded its focus to include international law. Consensus, however, has not been reached on the most suitable way of applying comparative law methods to the global context. Can the concepts and methods developed to conduct comparative legal research of national legal systems be transposed to study the international legal system? In this issue of Erasmus Law Review, a number of scholars with different legal backgrounds reflect on these questions. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/16473/ 2008-12-01T00:00:00Z Recent reforms regarding the European Courts raise the question in which way do 'new public management' principles influence the European judicial organisation and how is a balance struck between these principles and classic 'rule of law' principles? The article first presents a classification of these types of principles in the framework for discussion regarding the European judicial organisation. Starting out from two paradigms, an inquiry is made into the status of the two sets of principles in the present-day European 'constitutional' framework. Second, the interaction of principles is investigated with regard to a number of current dilemmas, including the demarcation of the judicial domain, the management of the Courts and the distribution of judicial competences. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/10925/ 2008-01-24T00:00:00Z De discussie over de rechterlijke organisatie in Nederland kenmerkt zich de laatste jaren door een grote aandacht voor aspecten als transparantie, effectiviteit en efficientie. Tegelijkertijd dient met het oog op de legitimiteit van de rechtspraak aandacht te blijven voor het behoud van verworven rechtsstatelijke waarborgen van rechterlijke onafhankelijkheid en onpartijdigheid. De recente moderniseringsdebatten in Nederland, en ook in andere moderne rechtsstaten, komen hiermee in het teken te staan van het vinden van een nieuw evenwicht van uitgangspunten voor de rechterlijke organisatie. In dit boek wordt de discussie over de modernisering van de rechterlijke organisatie in Nederland, Frankrijk en Duitsland geanalyseerd vanuit een constitutioneel perspectief. Beoogd wordt aan te geven welke plaats nieuwe kwaliteitseisen - dat wil zeggen 'new public management'-beginselen - in het constitutionele kader innemen ten opzichte van klassiek-rechtsstatelijke beginselen. Een rechtsvergelijkende analyse biedt aanknopingspunten om het constitutionele afwegingskader van beginselen in kaart te brengen en de implicaties voor de invoering van nieuwe oplossingen voor de rechterlijke organisatie te schetsen. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/11001/ 2007-05-14T00:00:00Z Where will the Dutch judicial system be in 2015? One of us answered a similar type of question elsewhere with a sketch of two frightening scenarios.* In the first scenario the judicial system will have insufficiently adapted itself to its surroundings. The judicial system will become more intensively involved in a decreasing amount of cases that gradually carry less weight. The judicial system, as a social phenomenon, will be marginalized even though the traditional standards of constitutional legitimacy and professionalism of the administration of justice are kept up. Interesting or big cases will be handled outside the judiciary by special courts or through arbitration, mediation or other forms of “alternative dispute resolution” (ADR). The large amount of bulk cases will be transferred to other legal areas or authorities where the involvement of the judge will decrease (for example the Mulderizing of criminal cases, or settlement by the Public Prosecutor). With the decrease in jurisdiction the authority of the judicial system will decline and eventually prise itself out of the market. In the second frightening scenario the judicial system will have adapted itself too much to its surroundings. Van Gunsteren once sketched a picture of the court as a dynamic centre for settling conflicts, a place where the experts fall over each other with seminars, workshops, courses, and new methods. Instead of settling conflicts they get copied within the judicial organization itself.† The judicial system, with its well-meaning efforts at being responsive, will have distanced itself from its core duties: settling disputes through binding judgments. While the judicial system has lost touch with its surroundings in the first scenario, it has lost its own self in the second scenario. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/20599/ 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z It is my pleasure to introduce to you this first issue of the Erasmus Law Review (ELR), a peer-reviewed journal that seeks to foster independent critical scholarship relevant to the discipline of law. This first issue considers the theme of the evolving European ordre public. Subsequent issues will consider the following themes: ‘Multi- and interdisciplinarity: mere theory or just practice’, ‘Class, collective and group actions’, ‘Staying out of court’ and ‘The rule of law in the European Union’. ELR will be published electronically on a quarterly basis and is also available through the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). We of course hope that we may count you among our readership not only on this occasion but also in the future. We appreciate comments on the articles and on the journal as a whole.