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"Preface" [2016] ELECD 694; in Scheinin, Martin; Krunke, Helle; Aksenova, Marina (eds), "Judges as Guardians of Constitutionalism and Human Rights" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016) ix

Book Title: Judges as Guardians of Constitutionalism and Human Rights

Editor(s): Scheinin, Martin; Krunke, Helle; Aksenova, Marina

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781785365850

Section Title: Preface

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Preface
This volume explores the role of judges as guardians of human rights and
constitutionalism. It is a multilayered study, the perspective of which is
both practical and theoretical in that it engages both academics and
practitioners, including judges. The book resulted from coordination
between and funding by three centers located at three different univers-
ities ­ the Centre for Judicial Cooperation (CJC) at the European
University Institute (EUI) in Florence, the Centre for Comparative and
European Constitutional Studies (CECS) at the University of Copen-
hagen and the Centre for the Study of the Legitimate Roles of the
Judiciary in the Global Order (PluriCourts) at the University of Oslo. All
the authors convened in November 2014 for two productive days in
Fiesole, Italy, to present and discuss their ideas. Subsequently the
discussion between the authors and the editors continued in clusters, as
reflected in the four thematic sections of the book.
The editors would like to thank the above-mentioned institutions for
supporting our inquiry into the function of judges in our shared and
continuously changing world. We would also like to take the opportunity
to express gratitude to people who made this book a reality. First and
foremost we thank our contributors for their thoughtful chapters and
unending patience in the process of editing the volume. We are equally
indebted to Claudia de Concini, Lilli Streymnes, and Jens Christian
Dalsgaard for their invaluable support in bringing this project to
completion.

In Pizzeria San Domenico (Fiesole), 30 July 2015

Marina Aksenova
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