Sabrina Ragone, Francesco Moro
The ROLLBACK Jean Monnet Chair addresses the scope of the rule of law from a comparative viewpoint, analysing the challenges to such principle and the role played by EU institutions and Member States. It applies an interdisciplinary methodology covering political science, sociology, constitutional law, philosophy, and legal theory.
It investigates a) the scope of the rule of law as a transnational European concept with respect to the separation of powers, elaborating a novel understanding of its implications; b) the impact on courts, media, and political equilibria; b1) the independence of the judiciary as a focus to be developed in a dedicated piece; c) the social understanding and political preferences depending on the political discourse on the rule of law.
The transnational dimension of the project is twofold: 1) it delves into the interaction between supranational integration and domestic actors in the definition of core values, with reference to the rule of law; 2) it combines the top-down and the bottom-up approaches within the evolution of EU integration, to challenge mainstream constructions such as “ius commune” or constitutional pluralism.
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