Judicial Selection, Lay Participation, and Judicial Culture in the Czech Republic: A Study in a Central European (Non)Transformation. College of Europe Research Paper in Law 03/2014

Introduction. The idea that “merit” should be the guiding principle of judicial selections is a universal principle, unlikely to be contested in whatever legal system. What differs considerably across legal cultures, however, is the way in which “merit” is defined. For deeper cultural and historical reasons, the current definition of “merit” in the process of judicial selections in the Czech Republic, at least in the way it is implemented in the institutional settings, is an odd mongrel. The old technocratic Austrian judicial heritage has in some aspects merged with, in others was altered or destroyed, by the Communist past. After 1989, some aspects of the judicial organisation were amended, with the most problematic elements removed. Furthermore, several old as well as new provisions relating to the judiciary were struck down by the Constitutional Court. However, apart from these rather haphazard interventions, there has been neither a sustained discussion as to how a new judicial architecture and system of judicial appointments ought to look like nor much of broader, conceptual reform in this regard. Thus, some twenty five years after the Velvet Revolution of 1989, the guiding principles for judicial selection and appointments are still a debate to be had.

Minding and not minding your own business: What justifies attempts to assess the democratic quality of political systems? IHS Political Science Series No. 139, May 2015

Founded in 1963 by two prominent Austrians living in exile – the sociologist Paul F. Lazarsfeld and the economist Oskar Morgenstern – with the financial support from the Ford Foundation, the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, and the City of Vienna, the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) is the first institution for postgraduate education and research in economics and the social sciences in Austria. The Political Science Series presents research done at the Department of Political Science and aims to share “work in progress” before formal publication. It includes papers by the Department’s teaching and research staff, visiting professors, graduate students, visiting fellows, and invited participants in seminars, workshops, and conferences. As usual, authors bear full responsibility for the content of their contributions.

Annotated record of the detailed examination of Mn deposits from R/V Pola during the first Austrian expedition to the Northern part of the Red Sea (1895-1896)

The paper presents an outline of the first Austrian expedition to the Northern part of the Red Sea with the R/V Pola.

Cuentos, artículos, y diálogos de buen humor.

At head of title: Lecturas populares.

Austrian health resorts throughout the year /

Mode of access: Internet.

Lucas' progressive drawing book, in three parts: : Part I--The principles of drawing in pencil, Part II--Colouring and shading in india ink, Part III--A treatise on perspective; : consisting chiefly of original views of American scenery, and embracing the latest and best improvements in the mode of instruction.

Poem "The colours" by E. Van Blon, part 2, p. [65]-66.

A Chance medley of legal points and legal stories.

Includes index.

Pamphlets on Austrian military history.

Mode of access: Internet.

[Weinhold pamphlets : Austrian history].

Binder's title. Table of contents inserted.

Iohannis Raphaelis Moxii ... Methodi medendi per venae sectionem morbos muliebres acutos : libri quatuor, quibus succedit spicilegium eorum, quae à variis sunt scripta de curandi ratione per venae sectionem febres, quas humor putrescens accendit ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Memoires de Jean de Wit, gran pensionnaire de Hollande /

Mode of access: Internet.

Vida y hechos de Estebanillo González, hombre de buen humor.

Mode of access: Internet.

Vida y hechos de Estebanillo Gonzalez: hombre de buen humor /

Mode of access: Internet.

The vision of William concerning Piers Plowman, together with Vita de Dowel, Dobet, et Dobest, secundum Wit et Resoun,

Pt. 1-3 have added t.-p.