Volume 24 | Issue 8 – German Law Journal

Table of Contents

Editorial

Introduction

Informality and Courts: Uneasy Partnership

David Kosař, Katarína Šipulová, and Marína Urbániková

Part I: Rationales of Informal Judicial Institutions—Creation and Effects on the Functioning of Courts

Informal Judicial Practices in the Belgian Legal Order: A Story of Incremental and Reactive Development

Mathieu Leloup

Superjudges and the Separation of Powers: A Case Study of Judicial Informality in Czechia

Ondřej Kadlec and Adam Blisa

Talks, Dinners, and Envelopes at Nightfall: The Politicization of Informality at the Bundesverfassungsgericht

Silvia Steininger

Informal Judicial Institutions in Ireland

Patrick O’Brien

What Does it Take to Become a Judge in Spain? An Informal First Step into a Formal World

Sara Iglesias and Rafael Bustos Gisbert

Informal Judicial Institutions—The Case of the English Judiciary

Sophie Turenne

Part II: Informal Judicial Institutions—Politicization and (Prevention of) Democratic Decay

The Italian System of Judicial Governance: An Arena of Confronting Informal Practices and the Push Towards Formalization

Simone Benvenuti

The Role of Judicial Associations in Preventing Rule of Law Decay in Romania: Informal Communication and Strategic Use of Preliminary References

Sorina Doroga and Raluca Bercea

(No) Ghost in the Shell: The Role of Values Internalization in Judicial Empowerment in Slovakia

Katarína Šipulová and Samuel Spáč

Schrödinger’s Judiciary—Formality at the Service of Informality in Hungary

Attila Vincze

The Invisible Safeguards of Judicial Independence in the Israeli Judiciary

Guy Lurie

Constructing the Pyramid of Influence: Informal Institutions as Building Blocks of Judicial Oligarchy in Georgia

Nino Tsereteli

Civil Society as an Informal Institution in Ukraine’s Judicial Reform Process

Serhii Lashyn, Anastasia Leshchyshyn, and Maria Popova

Part III: Broader Horizontal Perspectives

Constitutional Conventions Concerning the Judiciary beyond the Common Law

David Kosař and Attila Vincze

Actors of Informal Judicial Institutions and Practices

Lukáš Hamřík

Supranational Actors as Drivers of Formalization

Mathieu Leloup

Informality as a Virtue: Exploring Positive Informal Judicial Institutions

Hubert Smekal

Decay or Erosion? The Role of Informal Institutions in Challenges Faced by Democratic Judiciaries

Katarína Šipulová and David Kosař

Introduction

Part I: Rationales of Informal Judicial Institutions—Creation and Effects on the Functioning of Courts

Part II: Informal Judicial Institutions—Politicization and (Prevention of) Democratic Decay

Part III: Broader Horizontal Perspectives

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