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American women marked by the overturning of Roe v. Wade; and on the difficulties that individuals face in
Georgia from a practical point of view in the administrative offense proceedings.

• Central and Eastern European Legal Studies, 2/2022. This CEELS issue on “War and
Peace in Europe – Legal and Economic Issues of Russia’s Aggression against Ukraine and
the Impacts of the War” is a special issue edited under the directorship of Professor Dr.
Carmen Plaza, Dr. Alevtyna Sanchenko, and Professor Volodymyr Ustymenko.

It provides for the start of scientific discussion and elaboration of promising ideas on setting
the problems of survival and development of Ukraine with the help of and together with
European countries within the broad reform agenda, and on preventing a recurrence of any
war in future, as pointed out in the Introductory Remarks by V. Ustymenko and A. Sanchenko.
The issue echoes the thoughts of renowned Scholars and Researchers who live and work on
the front line of this horrid conflict and work for prestigious institutions such as the Valentyn Mamutov Institute
of Economic and Legal Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and different Universities. Their
articles reflect on some of the core legal problems and challenges that this war arises: from human rights
protection to social, economic, and environmental impact of the Russian aggression and the war, and the recovery
expectations of the Ukrainian people. An essential and common element of all the articles, as emphasized in the
Foreword by C. Plaza and A. Sanchenko, is that, though they assess the devastating impacts of the Russian
aggression against Ukraine from different points of view, all of them focus on legal and economic instruments to
speed up the recovery of Ukraine from the bounds of the war.

Series
EUROPEAN PUBLIC LAW SERIES (EPLS)
The European Public Law Series has had the pleasure to publish:
• Juli Ponce (Ed.), Nudging’s Contributions to Good Governance and Good Administration – Legal Nudges
in Public and Private Sectors, (with: Foreword by Ismael Peña-López, Preliminary Considerations by
Cass R. Sunstein, Afterword by Ricardo Rivero Ortega), European Public Law Series / Bibliothèque de
Droit Public Européen, vol. CXXVI, European Public Law Organization (EPLO), Athens, 372 pp., 2022

The relationship among behavioral insights, law and other sciences and public
administrations is an exciting and (not so) new field of academic work and practical
applications all around Europe and the world. There are still few publications on the topic
from a legal point of view in Europe and even less works including a transdisciplinary
perspective. The interest is continuously increasing thanks to the use of nudges against the
Pandemic and several Nobel Prizes in Economy in the last years which have been awarded
in relation to this issue. This book deals with the relationship between Law and other
sciences (Economy, Linguistics and Political Science, especially) and behavioral insights in
order to make effective the right to good administration and have a good governance. It
considers how different nudges can improve the functioning of public administrations in an effective and
unexpensive way, preventing corruption and maladministration. It also analyzes how nudging could lead to a
better regulation of private sector in several fields, improving compliance through a less intrusive public
intervention that respects the principle of proportionality.

• Bertrand Mathieu, Law versus Democracy?, (transl.), European Public Law Series / Bibliothèque de
Droit Public Européen, vol. CXXVII, European Public Law Organization (EPLO), Athens, 204 pp., 2023

While law is inseparable from the construction of democracy, to such an extent that
democracy and the rule of law are confused, the main idea of this book is to show that law
can also stand against democracy. The figure of a people inscribed within borders and sharing
a common destiny has been inseparable from the construction of a democratic system. These
constitutive elements of the State crumble. The existence of non-state legal systems obeying
other legitimacies, the development of individualism and communitarianism, the
degradation of fundamental rights into moralism, the weakening of the political power,
challenged, in particular, by the power of judges, the loss of the effectiveness of the concept
of general interest, the challenges of radical and political Islamism, are threats of
disaggregation. If liberal democracy, which has been a Western model of government, is
worthy of being saved, it is necessary to clarify the competences of the States and to empower the People again
with the tools that allow them to express themselves. The French edition of this book has also been translated
into Hungarian, Russian and Spanish.

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