Additional readings suggestion for the
ROL course
Egypt:
1. Constitution of the Arab Republic of Egypt, 2012, unofficial English
translation prepared by International IDEA, available online at
http://constitutionaltransitions.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/EgyptConstitution-26-December-2012.pdf.
2. Z. Al-Ali, “The new Egyptian Constitution: An initial assessment of its merits
and flaws”, 26 December 2012, Open Democracy, available online at
http://www.opendemocracy.net/zaid-al-ali/new-egyptian-constitution-initialassessment-of-its-merits-and-flaws
3. Z. Al-Ali & M. Dafel, Egyptian Constitutional Reform and the Fight against
Corruption. Working paper series of the International IDEA and The Center
for Constitutional Transition at NYU Law. No.1, June 2013. No.1, June 2013.
4. A. Welikala, The Legislature under the Egyptian Constitution of 2012.
Working paper series of the International IDEA and The Center for
Constitutional Transition at NYU Law. No. 8, June 2013.
5. Paul Collier, Democracy in Dangerous Places: Egypt – What Went Wrong?
Social Europe Journal, July 7, 2013.
6. A difficult way forward in Egypt, International Crisis Group, Cairo/Brussels, 3
July 2013.
Russia:
I. Krastev & S. Holmes, An Autopsy of Managed Democracy, Journal of
Democracy, Vol. 23, No. 3, July 2012, pp. 33–45.
Eastern Europe:
1. S. Holmes & C. R. Sunstein, 'The Politics of Constitutional Revision in
Eastern Europe', in S. Levinson (Ed.): Responding to Imperfection: The
Theory and Practice of Constitutional Amendment, Princeton University
Press, 1995.
2. C. Offe, Varieties of Transition: The East European and East German
Experience, MIT Press, 1997.
3. S. P. Huntington, The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth
Century, University of Oklahoma Press, 1991.
4. See T. G. Ash, The Magic Latern: The Revolution of ’89 Witnessed in
Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague, Random House, 1990.
5. Ralf Dahrendorf, Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, Random House,
1990.
6. Kateryna Pishchikova, ‘Between Democracy and Authoritarianism: The
“Hybrid” Nature of Post-Soviet Political Transformations’, in The Democratic
Disconnect, Citizenship and Accountability in the Transatlantic Community,
Transatlantic Academy, 2013. Chapter 5.
7. Gábor Halmai, ’The Rise and Fall of Hungarian Constitutionalism’, in The
Democratic Disconnect, Citizenship and Accountability in the Transatlantic
Community, Transatlantic Academy, 2013. Chapter 7.
European Union:
1. Kalypso Nicolaidis and Rachel Kelinfeld, Rethinking Europe’s “Rule of
Law” and Enlargement Agenda: The Fundamental Dilemma, SIGMA Paper,
No. 49. 2012.
2. Viviane Reding (Vice-President of the European Commission, EU Justice
Commissioner), The EU and the Rule of Law – What next? Centre for
European Policy Studies/Brussels, 4 September 2013.
Militant Democracy: Freedom of Expression, Assembly, Association
1. Karl Loewenstein, Militant Democracy and Fundamental Rights I-II.
The American Political Science Review, Vol. XXXI. June, 1937, No.
3.
2. Stephen Holmes, Bookreview on András Sajó (ed.), Militant
Democracy, ICON, July 2006, 4 (3)
3. András Sajó, From Militant Democracy to the Preventive State, 27
Cardozo Law Review, 2005-2006.
4. Germany: Socialist Reich Party Case, Federal Constitutional Court
5. European Court of Human Rights: Rekvényi v. Hungary
6. European Court of Human Rights: Vajnai v. Hungary
7. European Court of Human Rights: Bukta v. Hungary
8. European Court of Human Rights: Refah Partisi v. Turkey
Transitional Justice:
1. Neil J. Kritz, ‘The Dilemmas of Transitional Justice’, in, Kritz (ed.):
Transitional Justice. How Emerging Democracies Reckon with Former
Regimes. Vol. I. General Considerations. US Institute of Peace Press,
Washington, DC. 1995.
2. Gábor Halmai and Kim Lane Scheppele, ‘Living Well Is the Best Revenge:
The Hungarian Approach to Judging the Past’, in A. James McAdams (ed.),
Transitional Justice and Rule of Law in New Democracies, University of
Notre Dame Press, 1997.
3. Pablo de Greiff, ‘Vetting and Transitional Justice, in Alexander Mayer-Rieckh
and Pablo de Greiff (eds.), Justice As Prevention. Vetting Public Employees in
Transitional Societies. Social Science Research Council, New York, 2007.
4. Decision of the Constitutional Court of the Czech and Slovak Federal
Republic on the Screening Law. November 26, 1992. English translation is in
Kritz (ed.) III Transitional Justice, pp. 346-365.
5. Decision 11/1992 (III. 10.) AB of the Hungarian Constitutional Court on
retroactive justice. English translation is in Dorsen-Rosenfeld-Sajó-Baer,
Compartive Constitutionalism. Cases and Materials, West, 2010. 49-55.
6. Decision 60/1994. (XII. 24.) AB of the Hungarian Constitutional Court on
lustration. English translation in László Sólyom and Georg Brunner,
Constitutional Judiciary in a New Democracy. The Hungarian Constitutional
Court, The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2000. pp. 306-315.