nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20170603-170635 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 170603s2017||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20170603-170635 doi eng 342 23 Gizbert-Studnicki, Tomasz Author aut A state of constitutional necessity versus standard legal reasoning Gizbert-Studnicki, Tomasz Verfassungsblog 2017-06-03 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier N.W. Barber and A. Vermeule, in their seminal paper, differentiate between three types of cases in which the exceptional role of courts can come to light. I will be interested only in the third type of cases, which has been defined by Barber and Vermeule as follows: ‘There are some cases in which the health of the constitutional order requires the judge to act not merely beyond the law, as it were, but actually contrary to the law.’ CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/a-state-of-constitutional-necessity-versus-standard-legal-reasoning/ raw object