The European council of legal medicine

In the summer of 1979, a group of experts on law, medicine, and ethics assembled in Siracusa, Sicily, under the auspices of the International Commission of Jurists and the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Science, to draft guidelines on the rights of persons with mental illness. Sitting across the table from me was a quiet, proud man of distinctive intelligence, William J. Curran, Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Legal Medicine at Harvard University. Professor Curran was one of the principal drafters of those guidelines. Many years later in 1991, after several subsequent re-drafts by United Nations (U.N.) Rapporteur Erica-Irene Daes, the text was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly as the Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and for the Improvement of Mental Health Care. This was the kind of remarkable achievement in the field of law and medicine that Professor Curran repeated throughout his distinguished career.

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Bureau of Legal Medicine and Legislation

Journal of the American Medical Association ◽

10.1001/jama.1944.02850360052026 ◽

1944 ◽

Vol 126 (1) ◽

pp. 50

Keyword(s):

Legal Medicine

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Bureau of Legal Medicine and Legislation

Journal of the American Medical Association ◽

10.1001/jama.1945.02860270064028 ◽

1945 ◽

Vol 128 (10) ◽

pp. 762

Keyword(s):

Legal Medicine

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Bureau of Legal Medicine and Legislation

Journal of the American Medical Association ◽

10.1001/jama.1947.02880210073026 ◽

1947 ◽

Vol 134 (4) ◽

pp. 395

Keyword(s):

Legal Medicine

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Immigration Policy in the European Union: Still bringing up the walls for fortress Europe?

MIGRATION LETTERS ◽

10.33182/ml.v2i1.18 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 20-31 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Petra Bendel

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

Immigration Policy ◽

European Council ◽

The European Union ◽

New Period ◽

Fortress Europe ◽

Immigration And Asylum

Immigration and asylum policies in the European Union have entered into a new period. The author sums up the most important achievements and failures of the EU's efforts to create a common European asylum and immigration system, and she evaluates the new Hague Programme of the European Council (November 2004) in the light of the hitherto existing policies. She concludes that the European Council's new programme lags behind the more promising guidelines of its predecessor of Tampere.

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Institutional organisation of the European Union in the time of crisis – horizontal division of power and functions

10.31338/1641-2478pe.4.15.3 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 54-66

Author(s):

Monika Poboży

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

Separation Of Powers ◽

European Council ◽

Executive Power ◽

The European Union ◽

Checks And Balances ◽

Court Of Justice ◽

Strong Position ◽

Institutional System ◽

The Eu

The article poses a question about the existence of the rule of separation of powers in the EU institutional system, as it is suggested by the wording of the treaties. The analysis led to the conclusion, that in the EU institutional system there are three separated functions (powers) assigned to different institutions. The Council and the European Parliament are legislative powers, the Commission and the European Council create a “divided executive”. The Court of Justice is a judicial power. The above mentioned institutions gained strong position within their main functions (legislative, executive, judicial), but the proper mechanisms of checks and balances have not been developed, especially in the relations between legislative and executive power. These powers do not limit one another in the EU system. In the EU there are therefore three separated but arbitrary powers – because they do not limit and balance one another, and are not fully controlled by the member states.

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