Title:“Reasonableness” and Value Pluralism in Law and Politics
Author(s):SADURSKI, WojciechDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:In law, the category of reasonableness, when used in a “strong sense”, is inherently lied
up with proportionality, and also with the test of necessity, and thus is a guarantee of a
minimal restriction of constitutional ...
Title:Rights and Moral Reasoning: An Unstated Assumption
Author(s):SADURSKI, WojciechDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:Both the defenders and critics of judicial review assume tacitly that there is a special
moral capacity needed for a correct articulation of constitutional (explicit or implied)
rights, and they only disagree about who ...
Title:Welfare, Resources, and Luck-Egalitarianism
Author(s):SADURSKI, WojciechDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The leading discourse about luck egalitarianism has been informed by the distinction
between equality of welfare and equality of resources. This paper attempts to illuminate its
significance by focusing on the status of ...
Title:Two Concepts of Social Equality: What Luck Has Got To Do With It?
Author(s):SADURSKI, WojciechDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:A conventional distinction – that between an “individualized” and a “collective” concept of
social equality – is misleading and unhelpful. This can be best shown by reflecting upon
one, particularly interesting, and these ...
Title:Arbitrariness of Social and Natural Differences: Luck, Lottery, and Equality
Author(s):SADURSKI, WojciechDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:It is sometimes argued that social and natural inequalities which are both arbitrary from
a moral point of view should nevertheless have a different moral status in a theory of
justice: while inequalities of a social ...
Title:European Constitutional Identity?
Author(s):SADURSKI, WojciechDate:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The language of common European constitutional identity is distinguishable from that of common
European constitutional traditions in that the former does not focus so centrally on the past, and is
independent of the legal ...
Title:'Solange, chapter 3': Constitutional Courts in Central Europe – Democracy – European Union
Author(s):SADURSKI, WojciechDate:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:Soon after the accession of eight post-communist States from Central and Eastern Europe to the EU,
the constitutional courts of some of these countries questioned the principle of supremacy of EU
law over national ...
Title:Majority Rule, Legitimacy and Political Equality
Author(s):SADURSKI, WojciechDate:2005Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This paper claims that the intuitive and widespread legitimating power of majority rule (MR)
arises from the link between majority rule and the principle of equality of political
opportunity. The egalitarian character ...