Judicial Wisdom, and the World Court as Special Constitutional Court

1995 ◽  
pp. 705-712
Author(s):  
Edward McWhinney
Keyword(s):  
Constitutional Court ◽  
The World

scholarly journals The Illusion of Perfect Justice

2021 ◽  
pp. 55-70
Author(s):  
Christian Tomuschat
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
International Law ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
International Court Of Justice ◽  
German Occupation ◽  
International Court ◽  
The World ◽  
The Icj ◽  
The Right ◽  
Italian Constitution

AbstractThe judgment of the Italian Constitutional Court (ItCC) of 22 October 2014 has set a bad precedent for international law by denying the implementation, within Italy, of the judgment of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) of 3 February 2012. The ICJ found that Italian courts and tribunals had violated German jurisdictional immunity by entertaining suits brought by Italian citizens against Germany on account of damages caused by war crimes committed during World War II by German occupation forces. According to a well-consolidated rule of general international law, no state may be sued before the courts of another state with regard to acts performed in the exercise of its sovereign power. In contravention of Article 94 of the UN Charter, the ItCC deemed it legitimate to discard that ruling because of the particularly grave character of many of the violations in question. It proceeded from the assumption that the right to a remedy established under the Italian Constitution was absolute and must apply even where the financial settlement of the consequences of armed conflict is at issue. However, it has failed to show the existence of any individual reparation claims and has omitted to assess the issue of war reparations owed by Germany in their broader complexity. The judgment of the ItCC might be used in the future as a pretext to ignore decisions of the World Court.

Some Reflections on the Constitutional Review in Albania in a Comparison Key

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
Ismail Tafani ◽  
Renata Tokrri
Keyword(s):  
Balkan Peninsula ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Constitutional Reform ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Constitutional Review ◽  
The World ◽  
Constitutional Legitimacy ◽  
Formal Point ◽  
Constitutional Revision

In this study we will try to analyze the foundations of the Constitution as a pillar and as a guarantee for its solidity. The study will also address the need for revision of the constitution as a fundamental element of its existence and continuity. Particular emphasis will be given to the comparison of the constitutions of the most important countries in the world as regards the procedures and limits to the constitutional revision. In this sense, the constitutions of some Balkan Peninsula countries will be analyzed to draw a comparison and analyze the Albanian Constitution as regards the procedure for its revision. The study intends to analyze the procedures for the revision of the Constitution as well as the explicit and implicit limits to these revisions. In the Constitutional revision in Albania in 2016, the role of the Constitutional Court on the control of the constitutional legitimacy of constitutional revision laws was clarified. Formal constitutionality is usually emphasized since the Albanian constitutional reform underlined that the Constitutional Court in Albania could express itself on the constitutionality of the Constitutional revision law only from a formal point of view.   Received: 2 January 2021 / Accepted: 27 February 2021 / Published: 7 March 2021

A Christian in the Office of Constitutional Judge [1999]

2020 ◽  
pp. 280-287
Author(s):  
Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde ◽  
Mirjam Künkler ◽  
Tine Stein
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Central Committee ◽  
The State ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Servant ◽  
The World ◽  
Federal Constitutional ◽  
The Church

In this personal reflection, Böckenförde portrays the dilemma he faced during his tenure as a judge on Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court: trying to bridge his Christian Catholic spirituality with his work as a high-ranking public servant in a secular state. He describes his struggle with the Catholic teachings prior to Second Vaticanum, which at that time still defined the state as ideally Catholic and demanded every believer in public office to act as a vanguard for Christian natural law. But by committing himself to the public good, Böckenförde sidestepped the requirement of the Catholic Church and fully embraced the democratic, religiously neutral political order. Böckenförde justified his position (deviant in the eyes of the Church) by insisting on the strict neutrality demanded from a judge. He pointed to the so-called Church Compromise of the Weimar Republic (Weimarer Kirchenkompromiss), which established the neutrality of the state with regard to religion, and which was re-adopted in West Germany after 1949. He also relinquished his consultative role in the Central Committee of Catholics once he was nominated to the Constitutional Court. Even in cases affecting abortion, he only dealt with the issues at hand as a judge, not as a Catholic. In his view, Christian spirituality can manifest itself in faithfulness to one's office and an integrity that is open to the world.

The Machinery of International Law and Democratic Backsliding

2021 ◽  
pp. 136-146
Author(s):  
Tom Ginsburg
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
International Law ◽  
Term Limits ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Constitutional Amendments ◽  
The World ◽  
International Rights ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Right

This chapter focuses on the abuse of international rights to political participation so as to facilitate a leader's remaining in office beyond the constitutionally mandated term. This involves not only the abuse of the interpretation of rights, but also the abuse of the doctrine of unconstitutional constitutional amendments, which has spread around the world in recent years. How does this happen and what, if anything, can international law do about it? After introducing a motivating case — the famous decision of the Colombian Constitutional Court in the second re-election decision, in which courts stood for the protection of democracy — the chapter examines recent 'bad' cases in which rights and constitutional amendments are abused to extend leaders' terms. It surveys recent developments in the law of term limits, and briefly proposes a normative interpretation of the right to political participation which ought to be consistent with the emerging doctrine. The chapter suggests that there is an emerging consensus, at least in some regions of the world, that there are limits in states' ability to modify term limits unconditionally.

The Basic Law at 60 – From 1949 to 2009: The Basic Law and Supranational Integration

2010 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliane Kokott
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Founding Fathers ◽  
The Core ◽  
Basic Law ◽  
The World ◽  
Federal Constitutional ◽  
Supranational Integration ◽  
The Guardian

Sixty years after the entry into force of the Basic Law the world is much more interdependent. The concepts of statehood and sovereignty have changed. The following contribution examines how the Basic Law, as amended and interpreted by the Federal Constitutional Court, deals with this development. As a foundational matter, the Basic Law contains a commitment towards integration, although sixty years ago integration largely was seen as a promise. Now, 60 years later, the Federal Constitutional Court is developing limits to integration and recently ruled out Germany's participation in a European Federal State and sees itself as the guardian of German sovereignty. A change of paradigms seems to have taken place. For the founding fathers and mothers, a united—possibly even federal—Europe was considered to be the solution to protect against war and relapse towards an undemocratic, terroristic regime. But now the Federal Constitutional Court feels compelled to protect democracy and the core values of the Basic Law against “too much” European integration.

Does being a foreigner shape judicial behaviour? Evidence from the Constitutional Court of Andorra, 1993–2016

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
NUNO GAROUPA
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Entire Population ◽  
Policy Preferences ◽  
Personal Attributes ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Professional Background ◽  
Statistical Effect ◽  
The World

AbstractDifferent personal attributes have been considered to account for judicial policy preferences around the world: ideology, age, gender, race, religion, language and professional background. The appointment of foreign judges is a particularly rare characteristic since most countries do not entertain such a possibility. We use the specific case of the Constitutional Court of Andorra to test the extent to which foreign-appointed judges make a difference, and particularly whether they are more or less inclined to favour local petitioners. An empirical analysis of the entire population of abstract review cases in the period 1993–2016 does not indicate a strong statistical effect.

scholarly journals Analisis Yuridis Pembatalan Hak Untuk Melakukan Perkawinan Antara Sesama Pekerja Dalam Satu Perusahaan (Studi Putusan Mahkamah Konstitusi Nomor 13/PUU-XV/2017)

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-25
Author(s):  
Olivia Sitanggang
Keyword(s):  
Court Decision ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Professional Attitude ◽  
Legal Consideration ◽  
The World ◽  
Personal Conflict ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Legal Force

Currently, there are several companies that make regulations that require the workers to resign or even be willing to be laid off if they decide to marry another worker in the company. Some of the reasons are preventing personal conflict, subjectivity, corruption, collusion and nepotism. The formulation of the problem in this research is what is the background of the provisions regarding the prohibition of marriage between fellow workers in one company, how is the analysis of the judges legal considerations in the decision Number 13 / PUU-XV / 2017, what is the impact of the Constitutional Court decision on the inclusion of clauses prohibiting intermarriage between workers.The results showed that the background of the provisions concerning the prohibition of marriage between fellow workers in one company is to maintain a professional attitude of workers when carrying out their work in order to maintain the company's existence in the world of business competition. Another reason is that it refers to Article 153 paragraph (1) letter f of Law Number 13 of 2003 so that this provision is used as a reason for employers to prohibit marital ties for fellow workers in their company. The legal consideration of the judge in decision Number 13 / PUU-XV / 2017 is clear that Article 153 paragraph (1) letter f of the Labour Laws is no longer valid, because the phrase unless it has been regulated in a work agreement, company regulation, or collective working agreement is contrary to the Constitution 1945 and has no binding legal force. The impact of the Constitutional Court's decision on the inclusion of a clause on the prohibition of marriage is that employers cannot state the reasons for dismissal of workers who have marital ties to other workers in the same office in the employment agreements, company regulations or collective working agreements, so that if the entrepreneur includes it, it is considered to have violated the decision of the Constitutional Court. Keywords: Cancellation of the Rights, Marriage, Workers, One Company.

scholarly journals Indonesian State Owned Enterprises (BUMN or SOEs), and the Urgency of Implementation of Principle of ’Business Judgment Rule’

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Teuku Syahrul Ansari ◽  
Herdi Sahrasad ◽  
Irfan Iryadi
Keyword(s):  
Social Role ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Business Sector ◽  
Legal Certainty ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Legal Development ◽  
Business Judgment Rule ◽  
The World ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Case Number

State owned enterprises (SOEs  or BUMN) companies need management which generally emphasizes governance which is more concerned with the principles of efficiency and effectiveness. In reality, it is evident that in Indonesia state-owned companies have an enormous economic and social role, and are an extraordinary force and economic driver. In Singapore and Malaysia, SOEs also contribute greatly to economic activities. In Indonesia, SOEs are included in a number of diverse sectors or fields of business, from banking, energy, food, infrastructure, and transportation, both sea, land and air. A total of 118 SOEs in 2015 with a total assets of Rp5,395 trillion would certainly be able to make a greater contribution to economic growth in 2016 if they were able to synergize in managing the business sector. BUMN assets are also estimated to be greater through the SOE asset revaluation process. The Constitutional Court in case number 48 / PUU-XI / 2013 and case No. 62 / PUU-X1 / 2013 dated May 22, 2013 decided that management BUMN must use the principle of Business Jugment Rule. In the ruling, it was also stated that state owned finances were state finances. As a result, this ruling brings legal certainty about the position of finance of BUMN. This paper explains that the development of BUMN (state owned enterprises-SOEs) as a corporation that carries out social and business missions is facing constitutional juridical problems and facing the challenges of globalization. Factually, at this time legal development cannot be separated from the influence of globalization. Globalization in the economic field has affected various fields of the business sector in the world.

scholarly journals The right to die with dignity and conscientious objection

2015 ◽  
pp. 52-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose Henrique Rodrigues Torres
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Development ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Right To Die ◽  
Life Project ◽  
The World ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Independent Decision ◽  
The Right ◽  
Limits Of Medicine ◽  
The Ideal

he project of life is linked to freedom, as a right of each person to choose their own destiny. (...) The project of life fully encompasses the ideal of the American Declaration (of the Rights and Duties of Man) of 1948, which proclaims the spiritual development as the supreme end and the highest expression of human existence. Colombia's Constitutional Court, at guaranteeing the fundamental right to live and die with dignity, in the liberating expression of human rights, did not forget the mythical image of Charon ferrying the dead in his boat to Hades . In Colombia, the struggle against death, stubborn and limitless, contrary to the expression of the patients' will, cannot anymore be accepted as a duty or as a right of the doctors, who now must resign themselves to the conscious and independent decision of their patients, understanding the dimension of existence and of human dignity against the limits of medicine and science, to lead them, just with the necessary palliative care, in crossing the River Styx, to the "world of the dead ". Denying euthanasia, in terms of the decision of the Constitutional Court, constitutes a flagrant violation of the patients' "life project", who have, in the established circumstances, the right to legitimate anticipation of death.

scholarly journals El sistema electoral en Alemania a examen

2020 ◽  
pp. 479
Author(s):  
Yolanda Fernández Vivas
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Reference Model ◽  
Electoral System ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Legal Reforms ◽  
Allocation Procedure ◽  
The World ◽  
El Sistema ◽  
Federal Constitutional ◽  
Seat Allocation

El trabajo que aquí presentamos es un análisis del sistema electoral alemán, que se caracteriza por ser un modelo de referencia en el mundo, al combinar elementos del sistema mayoritario y proporcional y en el que se presta especial atención al procedimiento de elaboración de candidaturas en el seno de los partidos políticos. Además, se analizan las últimas reformas efectuadas en el procedimiento de asignación de escaños y la labor desempeñada por el Tribunal Constitucional federal en la delimitación del sistema.This paper analyzes the German electoral system, which is characterized by being a reference model in the world, combining elements of both majority and proportional systems and in which the candidates` nomination within political parties is especially relevant. In addition, there is an analysis of the latest legal reforms that affected the seat allocation procedure and the influence of the Federal Constitutional Court in the delimitation of the whole system.

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