Changing the Lawmaking Process in the Netherlands for the Sake of Implementation.

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c43070) has announced the addition of "Ambiguity in the Rule of Law - The Interface Between National and International Legal Systems" to their offering.

Ambiguity in the Rule of Law was the theme of a colloquium organized by the Hogendorp Centre for European Constitutional Studies in Amsterdam in 1999. The discussion centered around the assumption that enhancing the Rule of Law at the international plane, e.g. by creating law-making and judicial bodies there, often affects the Rule of Law at the domestic plane. Particularly, within national states it would lead to a shift of authority away from the legislature to the executive. Several speakers from The Netherlands, Belgium, The United Kingdom, France and Germany tackled the theme from different angles, expressing thoughts not only on the dangers, but also on the positive effects of increasing international lawmaking on the Rule of Law.

About the G.K. van Hogendorp Centre for European Constitutional Studies

Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp, 1762-1834, is the auctor intellectualis of the Dutch Kingdom's first Constitution (1814). To his honour, the G.K. van Hogendorp Centre was founded in 1996 to promote research and teaching of European constitutional studies, thereby combining the disciplines of European and comparative constitutional law as well as legal and political theory. The Centre is supported by the faculties of Humanities and Law of the University of Amsterdam and by the European Union through the Jean Monnet project. Presently, the Centre's chairman is W. H. Roobol (emeritus Professor of European History), its director is W.T. Eijsbouts (Jean Monnet Chair in European Constitutional Law and History). The Hogendorp Centre hosts yearly international conferences on various topics, such as EMU (1997), Flexibility (1998), Ambiguity in the Rule of Law (1999), Europe's Constitution (2000) and Direct Effect (2001).

Key Chapters Covered Include:

-- The Legitimacy of International Law in the Case Law of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.

-- Integrating the 'Schengen Acquis' into the Legal Order of the European Union Opaque Legal Practice and Unidentifi ed Objects.

-- In Defence of EC Law.

-- The Ambiguities of the State based on the Rule of Law

-- The Relationship of German National Law with International Public Law and with European Community Law.

-- An Ambiguous Story about Supremacy of EC Law

-- Changing the Lawmaking Process in the Netherlands for the Sake of Implementation a Question of Going too Far and of not Going Far Enough.

-- Is International Law the Enemy of National Democracy?.

-- The Legal Position of Federal States and Their Federated Entities in International Relations the Case of Belgium.

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