About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline
LOG IN
LOG IN

2 U.C. Irvine J. Int'l Transnat'l & Comp. L. 57 (2017)
Transnational Constitution-Making: The Contribution of the Venice Commission on Law and Democracy

handle is hein.journals/ucivjtoml2 and id is 61 raw text is: Transnational Constitution-Making: The Contribution of the Venice Commission on Law and Democracy Paul Craig* Foundations and Organization ...................... ............. 59 Remit and Role .................................................. 61 Democratic Institutions and Fundamental Rights ............... 61 Constitutional Justice...................................... 62 Elections, Referendums and Political Parties......................... 63 The Specific and the General ............ .................. 63 Triggering and Methodology ..................................... 64 Triggering the Venice Commission ............... ........... 64 Working Methodology of the Venice Commission ............. 66 The Venice Commission, Transnational Legal Orders and Constitution- Making ................................................ 68 Transnational Legal Orders................. ............... 68 The Venice Commission and Transnational Legal Orders............. 70 (i) Function ............................................. 70 (ii) Membership...................................... 71 (iii) Values .. ............................................ 72 The Venice Commission and Constitutions ......................... 73 The Venice Commission, Process and Substance ........ ............. 75 Process and Procedural Rights ........................ 75 Substantive Criteria and Standards ................................. 77 (i) Hard and Soft Law Standards .............. .......... 77 (ii) Universality and Plurality .............. .................... 78 (iii) Critique and Response ........................ 79 The Venice Commission, Compliance and Impact ........ .............. 80 Compliance and the Addressee........................ 81 Professor of English Law, St John's College, Oxford. I am the alternate UK representative on the Venice Commission. This article contains my personal views. I am grateful for comments received from participants at a conference at UC Irvine School of Law in 2016, and for further comments from Gregory Shaffer, Tom Ginsburg and Terence Halliday thereafter. 57

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Short-term subscription options include 24 hours, 48 hours, or 1 week to HeinOnline.

Purchase Access

Contact us for annual subscription options:

Contact Us

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

Log In

profiles profiles most