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Below, you will find Tables of Contents, Keywords, and English Synopses of all the issues of Revus – European Constitutionality Review. We will add soon foreign language originals (in English, French, German and other world languages), which were translated into Slovenian for the printed edition of Revus.
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Revus (2009) 11 - the first regional issue of Revus
FOREWORD :: Ciril RIBIČIČ | INSTITUTIONAL CONSTITUTIONAL LAW OF WESTERN BALKANS :: Mijat ŠUKOVIĆ, Three Different Constitutional Arrangements of Montenegro. From the Breaking of the Six-member Yugoslav Federation (1992) until Today (2009) • Kasim TRNKA, Specificities of Constitutional Arrangements of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Formation – Realization – Perspectives • Dženeta MIRAŠČIĆ and Zlatan BEGIĆ, Legal Nature of the Pluralistic Society of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Most Important Specificities of the Current System • Branko SMERDEL, Parlamentary System and the Stability of Croatian Constitution. Shall Presidential Elections be Followed by New Changes of Organization of Government? • Bosa NENADIČ, Constitutional Court of Republic of Serbia. In the Light of Constitution from the Year 2006 | CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS :: Tanja KARAKAMIŠEVA, Human Rights in the Republic of Macedonia Seen through the Lens of the Constitution and the Practice of Democracy | CONSTITUTIONAL LAW-MAKING :: Ciril RIBIČIČ, The Magnificent Seven. Chrestomaty of the Decisions of the Slovenian Constitutional Court | CONSTITUTIONAL CRIMINAL LAW :: Anže ERBEŽNIK, The Exclusionary Rule. Comparison between the ECtHR and the Slovenian and the Croat Systems | BOOKS :: Boštjan M. ZUPANČIČ, Substance and Form in Criminal Law. A Reply to a Book Review by Luís Duarte d’Almeida | FOREIGN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW CHRONICLE :: Andrej KRISTAN, Spanish Constitutional Law Chronicle. Statutory and Constitutional Court’s Interpretive Response to the Overload of the Constitutional Court
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Human Dignity and Mental Health
Andraž Teršek, ed.
FOREWORD :: Saša ROŠKAR, On the Other Side of Silence | CONSTITUTIONAL STARTING POINTS :: Andraž TERŠEK, Constitutional Responsibility of the State and the Society for the Quality of Mental Healt | HUMAN DIGNITY :: Boštjan M. ZUPANČIČ, Dignity, Anomy… and the Future of Human Rights • Nora JACOBSON, Dignity and Health – A Review • Tea LOGAR, Dignity: Autonomy or Constraint? • Tea LOGAR, The Role of Dignity in Bioethics. On Human Dignity and Bioethics | MENTAL HEALTH :: Sanja TEMNIK (ed.), Andrej Marušič – For Mental Health of Tomorrow and a Day After • Sanja TEMNIK, Phisically Ill and Menatlly Healthy? • Andrej MARUŠIČ, One Health Only • David B. WEXLER, Putting Mental Health into Mental Health Law. Therapeutic jurisprudence • Luka TIČAR, Mobbing as a Disturbance in Communication at Work and as a Factor of Human’s Mental Health
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In previous issues
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FOREWORD :: Rajko KNEZ on equal treatement of the Slovenian and the European citizens | INTERNATIONAL LAW OF HUMAN RIGHTS :: Dominika ŠVARC, Applicability of International Law in Peace Operations | CONSTITUTIONAL GRAMMAR :: Patricia MINDUS, Contemporary Debate on Citizenship. Some Remarks on the Erased of Slovenia • Andraž TERŠEK, Sovereignty the People and Human Rights. A Contribution to the Understanding of Concepts • Andrej KRISTAN, Three Dimensions of the Rule of Law. How Do Limitations of Private Access to Constitutional justice Weaken the Rule of Law | REVUS’ CANON :: Manuel ATIENZA, Argumentation and Constitution | COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. Latin America :: Marie ROTA, Caselaw of the Interamerican Court of Human Rights. Chronicle for the Year 2008 • Vincent SOUTY, New Devolution of Powers in the Constitution of Bolivia | BOOKS :: Luís DUARTE d’ALMEIDA, Substance and Procedure in Criminal Law. A Review of Boštjan M. Zupančič’s The Owl of Minerva
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Revus (2009) 8
FOREWORD :: Franc GRAD, How to Unburden the Constitutional Court? 
| CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHOR’S LAW :: Philippe GAUDRAT, The Fundamental Freedom of Amateurs of Art 
| PERSONALITIES. Carl Schmitt :: Mauro BARBERIS, Carl Schmitt and the European Legal Culture 
• Andraž TERŠEK, Schmitt’s Theory of Legality and Legitimacy | CONSTITUTIONAL LAW-MAKING :: Anže ERBEŽNIK, Appropriateness of the Introduction of Separate Opinions at the European Court of Justice | REVUS’ CANON :: François OST, Jupiter, Hercule, Hermes: Three Models of a Judge 
| LAW AND LITERATURE. Legal Comics :: Luis Alberto WARAT and Gustavo PEREZ CABRIADA, Pure Comics of Law 
| BOOKS :: Prehistory of deontic logic by Giuseppe Lorini
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Revus (2008) 7
FOREWORD :: Vesna BERGANT RAKOČEVIĆ, Personalities and Rivaliries that Defined Slovenia | INSTITUCIONAL CONSTITUTIONAL LAW :: Saša ZAGORC, Incompatibility of Holding Office of a Deputy of National Assembly with Office of Mayor and Vice-Mayor | ORDINARY COURTS. Labour and Social Security Law :: Luka TIČAR, Modern Concept of Labour Law Protection. An Analysis of Supreme Court Decision and its Constitutional Context | CONSTITUTIONAL LAW-MAKING :: Andraž TERŠEK, Deontological (Self)Understanding of the Constitutional Law-Making Powers • Andrej KRISTAN, Argumentative vs. Institutional Legitimacy of an Individual (Constitutional)Court’s Decision. On the Tenth Anniversary of perhaps the Most Remarkable Decision in Slovenian Constitutional Court’s Practice | REVUS’ CANON :: Alf ROSS, Tû-tû 
| CONSTITUTIONAL LAW CHRONICLE :: Xavier AUREY, Anne-Sophie DENOLLE, Marie ROTA and Vincent SOUTY, French Constitutional Law Chronicle (January 2007 – May 2008) • Stefan HÄUßLER, Constitutional Limits put on Online Searches. Judgement of the German Federal Constitutional Court 1 BvR 370/07 
| STRASBOURG’S JUDICIAL PROTECTION OF RIGHTS :: Samo BARDUTZKY, Deprivation of Liberty of Asylum Seekers. Judgement of the ECtHR in the case of Saadi vs. United Kingdom
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Revus (2006) 6
FOREWORD :: Bojan BUGARIČ, Formal vs. Material Democracy: On the Role of the Rule of Law in Slovenia | IN MEDIAS – LESSONS FROM JUDICIAL SYSTEMS :: Mitchel LASSER, Anticipation Three Models of Judicial Control, Debate and Legitimacy: The European Court of Justice, French Cour de Cassasation and the United States Supreme Court • Tanja PETELIN, The Role of the Cour de Cassation within French Legal System | CONSTITUTIONAL LAW-MAKING :: Mirjam ŠKRK, Constitutional Review of International Treaties | STRASBOURG’S JUDICIAL PROTECTION OF RIGHTS :: Zarja ČIBEJ, Case LAw of the ECtHR with Regard to the Right to Remain Silent | CONSTITUTIONAL CONFRONTATION WITH TERRORISM AND FUNDAMENTALISM :: Dominika ŠVARC, The Terror of Law: Human Rights in the Global War on Terror
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Revus (2005) 5
IN MEDIAS :: Zarja ČIBEJ, Miranda: A Constitutional Right in Slovenia | STRASBOURG’S JUDICIAL PROTECTION OF RIGHTS :: Mateja RUS, Lukenda vs. Slovenia – Presentation of the Judgment • Saša ZAGORC, Double Wake-Up Call for Slovenian Authorities: Effective Legal Remedies for the Violation of the Right to a Trial within a Reasonable Time – Now What? • Matija LONGAR, Quis custodies ipsos custodies? – The Right to a Fair Trial before Constitutional Courts | INTERNATIONAL JUDICIARY :: Miša ZGONC ROŽEJ, Judgement of the ICJ in the Hague Concerning the Legality of Use of Force in the Case Between Serbia and Montenegro and NATO members – Preliminary Objections | CONSTITUTIONAL LAW-MAKING :: Andraž TERŠEK, Constitutional Limits of Referendum Democracy – On the Decision of the Slovenian Constitutional Court in the “Mosque Case” | SELECTED CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION :: Albin IGLIČAR, Autonomy of the University in Light of the Slovenian and European Constitution and the Bologna Declaration • Polona PIČMAN ŠTEFANČIČ, The Constitutional Principle of Democracy: Lobbying as a Practical Aspect of Participative Democracy in the Information Age
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Revus (2005) 4
FOREWORD :: Igor KAUČIČ, It would be Reasonable to Abolish Precursive Referendum | CONSTITUTIONAL LAW-MAKING :: Andrej KRISTAN, Interpretive Decisions of the Slovenian Constitutional Court – with Explicit Constitutional Basis • Sebastian NERAD, Legal Standing for the Constitutional Review of Statutes | DIRECT DEMOCRACY – REFERENDUM ABUSE DOKTRINE :: Andraž TERŠEK, On Abuse of Referendum with a Case of Hollowness of Referendum Decision-Making • Matej AVBELJ, Constitutional Monism and Reduction of Referendum Decision-Making – A Critical Analysis of Referendum Abuse Doctrine | FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION :: Andraž TERŠEK, Freedom of Expression and a Right to Privacy – Analysis and Commentary of the ECtHR Judgement in the Case Von Hannover vs. Germany • Urška PREPELUH, Right to Access to Public Information Based on the European Convention on Human Rights • Luka TIČAR, Freedom of Expression in Relation to Protection of Others from Defamation – An ECtHR Judgement in the Case of Chauvy vs. France • Saša ZAGORC, Where Is the Line of Journalist’s Opinion on Acts by Judicial Functionary – An ECtHR Judgement in the Case of Perna vs. Italy | CRIME AND PUNISHMENT :: Gregor ROŽMAN, Execution of Death Sentence in the USA - National Consensus vs. Direct Political Pressure
| CONSTITUTIONAL LAW-MAKING :: Andrej KRISTAN, Interpretive Decisions of the Slovenian Constitutional Court – with Explicit Constitutional Basis • Sebastian NERAD, Legal Standing for the Constitutional Review of Statutes | DIRECT DEMOCRACY – REFERENDUM ABUSE DOKTRINE :: Andraž TERŠEK, On Abuse of Referendum with a Case of Hollowness of Referendum Decision-Making • Matej AVBELJ, Constitutional Monism and Reduction of Referendum Decision-Making – A Critical Analysis of Referendum Abuse Doctrine | FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION :: Andraž TERŠEK, Freedom of Expression and a Right to Privacy – Analysis and Commentary of the ECtHR Judgement in the Case Von Hannover vs. Germany • Urška PREPELUH, Right to Access to Public Information Based on the European Convention on Human Rights • Luka TIČAR, Freedom of Expression in Relation to Protection of Others from Defamation – An ECtHR Judgement in the Case of Chauvy vs. France • Saša ZAGORC, Where Is the Line of Journalist’s Opinion on Acts by Judicial Functionary – An ECtHR Judgement in the Case of Perna vs. Italy | CRIME AND PUNISHMENT :: Gregor ROŽMAN, Execution of Death Sentence in the USA - National Consensus vs. Direct Political Pressure For English synopses and authors’ short biographies click here.
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Revus (2004) 3
FOREWORD :: Lojze UDE, For Direct Application of the Constitution and Awareness of the EU Law | IN MEDIAS :: Dominique BREILLAT, Supraconstitutionality in France | NATIONAL CONSTITUTIONAL JUDICIARY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION :: Luzius WILDHABER, Role of Constitutional Courts in Member States of the European Union • Winfried HASSEMER, The Position of Constitutional Courts following Integration into the European Union – Case-Law of German Federal Constitutional Court • Heinz SCHAEFFER, Experiences of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Austria Concerning the EU Legal System • Ciril RIBIČIČ, Enforcement of European Standards in Jurisprudence of the Slovenian Constitutional Court | CONSTITUTIONAL CONFRONTATION WITH TERRORISM AND POLITICAL FUNDAMENTALISM :: Dean ZAGORAC, The Guantanamo Problem – Protection of Constitutional Rights over the Barred Wire (Part II)
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Revus (2004) 2
FOREWORD :: Erwan FOUERE, Foreward to the 2nd Issue of Revus | IN MEDIAS :: Boštjan M. ZUPANČIČ, On the Interpretation of Legal Precedents and of the Judgements of the European Court of Human Rights | CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTION OF MINORITY RIGHTS :: Ciril RIBIČIČ, (Constitutional) Protection of the Rights of Minorities • Andraž TERŠEK, American Judicial Review on “Family” and “Marriage” Relations and the Goodrich Case: Procreation and Heterosexuality are not Necessities of Marriage • Rok LAMPE, Religious Liberties and Position of Religious Communities in the US Constitutional System – a Human Rights Approach • Jurij ŽUREJ, Minority Rights Concerning the Media and the Use of Language in Slovenia and Abroad | SELECTED CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES ON THE EUROPEAN INTEGRATION :: Marko NOVAK, Slovenian Constitutional Identity at the Vice of the EU Legal System. Some Preliminary Thoughts • Primož VEHAR, Slovenian Parliament After 1 Maw: Actor or Merely a Walk-On at the European Stage? • Katja PLAUŠTAJNER, Supremacy of EU Law in the Light of Constitutionality and the ECJ as a “Statutory Judge”. Summary of the GermanFederal Constitutional Court Decision in the Kloppenburg Case • Simon BRENCE, German Federal Government as the Representative of the Interests of Lander in the EU and a Question of Television Directive | CONSTITUTIONAL CONFRONTATION WITH TERRORISM AND POLITICAL FUNDAMENTALISM :: Dean ZAGORAC, The Guantanamo Problem – Proteciton of Constitutional Rights over the Barred Wired (Part I) • Dunja JANDL, The Problem of Terrorism in Strasbourg Case Law • Zarja ČIBEJ, Constitutional Prohibition of the Activities of a Political Party in the Name of Democracy: ECtHR Decision in Cases of Refah Partisi vs. Turkey (I and II) and Gorzelik vs. Poland
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Revus (2003) 1
FOREWORD :: Ciril RIBIČIČ and Andraž TERŠEK, co-founders of Revus | THE CONSTITUTION OF EUROPE :: Branko SMERDEL, Convention on the Future of Europe and the Process of Constitutional Choices • Ciril RIBIČIČ – Round Table – European Integration: Experiences from the (Slovenian) Past and (European) Future Perspectives with Ljubo Bavcon, Anton Bebler, Franc Grad, Rudi Kocjančič, Lev Kreft, Ivan Kristan, Slaven Letica, Jože Mencinger, Miha Ribarič, Rudi Rizman, BojanBugarič and Andraž Teršek | CONSTITUTIONAL LAW-MAKING :: Aleš GALIČ, “Argument of Precedent” or Slovenian Constitutional Court’s Position on the Arbitrary Aberration from Case Law • Boštjan M. ZUPANČIČ, Constitutional Law and the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights: An Attempt at a Synthesis | HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTION :: Andrej KRISTAN, Lawrence vs. Texas. Historical March of Freedom Under the US Supreme Court’s Baton • Ana VOSPERNIK VILFAN, Short Survey of the European Court of Human Rights Case Law Concerning the Question of Confiscated Property Restitution • Dean ZAGORAC, Challanges for the Universal Protection of Human Rights • Luka TIČAR, Constitutional Aspects on the Prohibition of Competition in Labour Law | EMPHASISED SEGMENTS OF LEGAL CULTURE :: Albin IGLIČAR, National, Transnational and Public Opinion Aspects of Constitutional Rights | TRANSLATIONS :: Larry SIEDENTOP, Why Constitutions Are Important?
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Revus – European Constitutionality Review
is the first constitutional law journal published in Slovenia
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Revus – European Constitutionality Review was founded in 2003 by prof. dr. Ciril Ribičič and dr. Andraž Teršek in collaboration with the Chair for constitutional law at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, and the Slovenian Society for Constitutional Law. The journal was first published by GV Založba (from 2003 until 2006) and then by Uradni list Republike Slovenije [Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia] (in 2008 and 2009). Today, Revus is published by Klub Revus – Centre for Studies on Democracy and European Constitutionality (Ljubljana) in cooperation with the Slovenian Society for Constitutional Law. The e-mail address of Klub Revus is: klub (@) revus (dot) eu.
Editors: Andraž Teršek and Andrej Kristan
International advisory board: Manuel Atienza, Dominique Breillat, Bojan Bugarič, Franc Grad, Riccardo Guastini, Igor Kaučič, Rudi Kocjančič, Rajko Knez, Ivan Kristan, Peter Krug, Arne Mavčič, Eric Millard, François Ost, Marijan Pavčnik, Ciril Ribičič, Branko Smerdel, Franc Testen, Roberto Toniatti, Lojze Ude and Boštjan M. Zupančič
Author’s, who have collaborated with Revus: Branko Smerdel (CRO), Ciril Ribičič, Ljubo Bavcon, Anton Bebler, Rudi Kocjančič, Lev Kreft, Ivan Kristan, Slaven Letica (CRO), Jože Mencinger, Miha Ribarič, Rudi Rizman, Franc Grad, Bojan Bugarič, Andraž Teršek, Aleš Galič, Boštjan M. Zupančič, Andrej Kristan, Ana Vospernik Vilfan, Dean Zagorac, Luka Tičar, Albin Igličar, Larry Siedentop (UK), Katja Peček, Igor Kaučič, Arne Maučič, Matevž Krivic, Peter Krug, Roberto Toniatti (ITA), Katja Šugman, Marijan Pavčnik, Aleš Zalar, Miro Cerar, Jadranka Sovdat, Lojze Ude, Blaž Kovačič, Dean DeVos, Rok Lampe, Jurij Žurej, Marko Novak, Primož Vehar, Katja Plauštajner, Simon Brence, Dunja Jandl, Zarja Čibej, Andrej A. Matič, Erwan Fouéré (IR), Dominique Breillat (FRA), Luzius Wildhaber (H), Winfried Hassemer (GER), Alenka Jerše, Heinz Schäffer (AUS), Tomaž Longyka, Sebastian Nerad, Matej Avbelj, Urška Prepeluh, Saša Zagorc, Gregor Rožman, Mateja Rus Bassit, Matija Longar, Miša Zgonec Rožej, Polona Pičman Štefančič, Franc Testen, Mitchel Lasser (USA), Tanja Petelin, Mirjam Škrk, Dominika Švarc, Vesna Bergant Rakočević, Alf Ross (DAN), Xavier Aurey (FRA), Anne-Sophie Denolle (FRA), Marie Rota (FRA), Vincent Souty (FRA), Jan Jeram, Nastasja Suhadolnik, Stefan Häußler (NEM), Samo Bardutzky, Rajko Knez, Eric Millard (FRA) Philippe Gaudrat (FRA), Matija Žgur, Mauro Barberis (ITA), Anže Erbežnik, François Ost (BEL), Luis Alberto Warat (ARG), Manuel Atienza (SPA), Patricia Mindus (SWE), Jernej Ogrin, Živa Nendl, Luís Duarte d’Almeida (POR), David Restrepo Amariles (COL), Riccardo Guastini (ITA), Karine Caunes (FRA), Giulio Itzcovich (ITA), Tea Logar, Saša Roškar, Sanja Temnik, Vittorio Villa (ITA), Tilen Štajnpihler, Armin von Bogdandy (GER), Maja Smrkolj, Mijat Šuković (MNE), Kasim Trnka (BiH), Dženeta Miraščić (BiH), Zlatan Begić (BiH), Bosa Nenadić (SRB), Tanja Karakamiševa (MCD), Andras Jakab (HUN), Luka Burazin (CRO), Tadej Dubrovnik (SLO), Aurore Catherine (FRA), Antoine Siffert (FRA), Asja Žujo (BiH), Eugenio Bulygin (ARG), Vasilka Sancin and Marko Milanović (SRB).
