James Allan

James Allan

JUDIT VARGA, HUNGARY AND THE RULE OF LAW

“Late last year the Hungarian Minister of Justice, Judit Varga, wrote an opinion column questioning the burgeoning empire of the Rule of Law and the use of that empire by the European Commission and Parliament to keep some of the member states in line. Ms Varga even argued that the

CONSTITUTIONALISM, POLITICS AND JUDICIAL POWER

Budapest Talk, 27–28 September 2017 The gist of my talk is this: We have a problem in the democratic world with robed, ex-lawyer mandarins who remove issues from the political sphere by declaring them to be constitutional in nature and thereby put them beyond discussion and resolution by mere citizens