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A traditional but short review of a legal anthology.

A rather detailed description of the Swedish constitution, aimed mainly at foreign readers

A well-established and quite popular textbook that describes the basic features of the constitutional systems of USA, Germany, France, United Kingdom and the Nordic countries, with some aims of comparison towards the end.

An attempt to describe the new legal situation after a change in the Tort Law in 2022, which means that any violation of the fundamental rights in the Swedish constitution and the European Convention of Human Rights from the public authorities may lead to financial compensation.

This article analyses the three topics listed in the headline in that order, and it subsequently identifies and discusses a common thread between them.The fact that they have all been affected by the enactment of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (CFR), of which they belong to the core area, is very crucial here, and so is the interplay or interaction between the European Courts and leading national courts, not least in the constitutional area. Cases such as Melloni, from 2013, have shown the problems that may occur should the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) not respect fundamental rights and national constitutional values. If the CJEU wants to maintain its key role in the future structure of EU law, it needs to show that it cares about fundamental rights and that it wants to work together, not against the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and national courts. The three concepts discussed in this article, all strengthened by the Charter, have so far been most helpful in this process –and may become even more important in the future.

The article offers a historical view on how the debate concerning Swedish judicial review has changed over the last 200 years.

The article describes the legal and constitutional foundations for Swedish EU membership, as well as how this issue has developed since 1995.

An analysis of the legal relationship beetween the two European courts, i.e. the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and the EU court in Luxemburg.

The book describes important recent changes in Swedish law, both in legislation and in practice, concerning the right to economic compensation from the state in case of human rights violations.

The article describes and analyses the main changes in the judicial review of legislation after a main constitutional change in 2010.