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Continue reading →: European Administrative Law Online Dialogues – Beyond adjudication. Exploring the Multifaceted Role of Supreme Administrative Courts
Organised jointly with the Yale Comparative Administrative Law MailServ, this REALaw Dialogue celebrates the publication of monograph edited by Wojciech Piątek (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland), entitled Beyond adjudication. Exploring the Multifaceted Role of Supreme Administrative Courts, published by Edward Elgar. The Dialogue took place on 9 June 2026, 15.00-16.30, online.…
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Continue reading →: The challenge of a contextualized approach to administrative law and institution making in a small polity – The case of the Faroe Islands, By Bárður LarsenIntroduction When I was asked to discuss administrative law from a Faroese perspective for this blog, it was not clear to me how that would be possible. Of course, we have Faroese laws and administrative institutions, but these are mostly copied from Denmark with few or no Faroese ‘fingerprints’ on…
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Continue reading →: Why EU Agencies can Make Enlargement Tangible, By Matis PoussardinGeopolitics will not wait, reform cannot hurry Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 has cast a veil of uncertainty over the future of the European Union (EU). The return of interstate war to the European continent has profoundly reshaped debates surrounding European integration, security, and the future…
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Continue reading →: Hungary’s Kuria and the Executive: an imbalanced relationship, by Krisztina RozsnyaiIn this chapter of Beyond Adjudication, I explore the relationship between Hungary’s supreme court — the Kuria — and the executive power, revealing a system where the formal principle of separation of powers is increasingly undermined in practice. The chapter opens with a brief history of administrative adjudication in Hungary to understand the…
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Continue reading →: The relationships between the supreme administrative courts and the executive power in the example of Poland, by Piotr Ostrowski and Wojciech PiątekThe relationship between administrative courts and the executive in Poland reveals a structural tension already at the constitutional level. On the one hand, administrative courts are tasked with performing judicial review of public administration (Art. 184 of the Constitution), suggesting a one-directional influence: courts control the executive. On the other…