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Maija Dahlberg is a Senior Lecturer in Constitutional Law and Academy of Finland Postdoc­toral Fellow. In her doctoral research, she combined her interests in constitutional law and legal theory by researching the judicial legitimacy of the European Court of Human Rights. She teaches constitutional and human rights law at the University of Eastern Finland Law School. Her current research, funded by the Academy of Finland, focuses on the legitimacy of constitutional interpre­tation and the constitutionality review of laws more generally.

I am grateful to the anonymous referee, who encouraged me to state my arguments more pungently. All the mistakes and omissions in this chapter remain my own responsibility. I would also like to thank Paivi Leino-Sandberg for her insightful comments and discussions.