ABSTRACT
When I was 11 years old, I first came across the concept of abstract judicial review when attending a public law lecture in the company of my mother. My parents had had a very eclectic view of the education of the little accident they had produced 11 years prior, before they had even finished their own education. They believed the existence of a child was no reason to neglect their own education and, therefore, throughout the undergraduate, masters, and PhDs of first one of them, then the other, we saved on baby-sitters and I came along to whatever university threw at them. Mostly, I did my own homework and was spoiled outrageously by all the professors. But one Monday afternoon I came across the concept of judicial review and it simply did not let go of me again. What hooked the 11-year-old still hooks me today: the question why?
