scholarly journals Sprawozdanie. XX Międzynarodowy Kongres Europejskiego i Porównawczego Prawa Konstytucyjnego Development f Constitutional Law through Constitutional Justice: Landmark Decisions and their Impact on Constitutional Culture, Gdańsk, 20–23 września 2018 r.

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (5) ◽  
pp. 299-301
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Gajda ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Constitutional Law ◽  
Constitutional Culture ◽  
Constitutional Justice

scholarly journals Access to Justice and Democratic Governance in Cameroon: Which Lessons in the Light of Constitutional Justice?

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Florent Guy ATANGANA MVOGO
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Constitutional Law ◽  
Participatory Democracy ◽  
Democratic Governance ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Constitutional Justice

Through the constitutional law of January 18, 1996, Cameroon endowed itself with a constitutional justice. The question is to what extent do the mechanisms of access to constitutional justice contribute to the democratic governance of the country? To analyse this fact, it appears that the mechanisms of access to constitutional justice in Cameroon are highly prohibitive and deny the rule of law and participatory democracy; all things that are resolutely situated at the antipodes of a democratic governance.

Comparison, Translation and the Making of a Common European Constitutional Culture

2008 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 547-574 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Vespaziani
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
Constitutional Law ◽  
Economic Globalization ◽  
The State ◽  
European Law ◽  
Methodological Nationalism ◽  
Constitutional Culture

European integration has forced constitutional law scholars to abandon the perspective of methodological nationalism. Prior to the emergence of the interpretative problems raised by the intersection of domestic and European law, the dominant legal paradigm conceived of “constitution” and “state” as two inseparable terms. With the intensification of European integration and economic globalization, many different constitutionalist interpretations have emerged which all share a belief in the State's loss of centrality, such as post-, supra- and transnational constitutionalism, constitutionalism without the state and multilevel constitutionalism.

Constitucionalismo democrático e justiça constitucional

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivo Dantas ◽  
Julienne Diniz Antão ◽  
Janini de Araújo Lôbo Silvestre ◽  
Gina Gouveia Pires de Castro ◽  
Carina Barbosa Gouvêa
Keyword(s):  
Constitutional Law ◽  
Separation Of Powers ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Constitutional Interpretation ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Constitutional Justice ◽  
Constitutional System

A semester before the publication of the work that the reader has in hands, the themes related to Democratic Constitutionalism and Constitutional Justice were the focus of the classroom of the discipline of the same name in the Postgraduate Program in Law of the Faculty of Law of the Recife (UFPE), Brazil, led by professor and doctor Ivo Dantas, a great name in Brazilian Constitutional Law. Comparisons between the institutes of our constitutional system and the foreign constitutional system, principles of the Constitution, Fundamental Rights, the Control of Constitutionality, the Separation of Powers, the Constitutional Interpretation, the compulsory nature of vaccination for COVID, among many other more than present themes in our daily lives, they are presented to the reader, directly from the classroom, in a clear, concise and updated way.

Sovereign Silences and the Voice of War in the American Conflict over Slavery

2008 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 571-594
Author(s):  
David F. Holland
Keyword(s):  
Constitutional Law ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Mechanisms Of Change ◽  
The People ◽  
Constitutional Culture ◽  
The Voice

Various students of constitutional law have proposed a negative relationship between the possibility of formal amendment and recourse to informal construction. They suggest that if formal amendatory appeal to the sovereign People seems excessively difficult, a constitutional culture will more readily tolerate expansive interpretations or simple political action as mechanisms of change and clarification. Conversely, if the processes of amendment sufficiently allow the People to clarify or alter their own original charter, a constitutional culture will manifest less willingness to let judges and politicians put words in their mouths. The basic thrust of such constitutional logic is that, where reasonably possible, sovereigns will speak for themselves.

scholarly journals O substancialismo jurídico na administração pública concretista de direitos fundamentais: a juridicidade administrativa como instrumento de justiça constitucional | Legal “substantialism” in public administration concretist of fundamental rights: The administrative legality as a constitutional instrument of Justice

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2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 304
Author(s):  
Sandro Lúcio Dezan ◽  
Ricarlos Almagro Vitoriano Cunha
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Constitutional Law ◽  
Administrative Law ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
The Public ◽  
Democratic State ◽  
Constitutional Justice ◽  
Initial Line

Resumo: o presente texto tem por finalidade definir o papel da Administração Pública na interpretação e na aplicação do texto constitucional, no que respeita à concreção de direitos fundamentais em países de modernidade tardia, sob o amparo da tensão existente entre o que se denominou de procedimentalismo e de substancialismo jurídico. Busca-se, em linhas iniciais abordar os contornos da tendência de legitimação da função jurídica administrativa de caráter constitucional contramajoritário, a aferir uma nova e importante tarefa ao Estado-executivo, para além de sua comum concepção de “fiel executor da lei”, de modo a concluir que a justiça constitucional envolve a jurisdição (por meio do Poder Judiciário) e a juridicidade (por meio da Administração Pública). Sob essa última perspectiva, busca-se assinalar que a aplicação e concreção do direito também é tarefa da Administração Pública, no âmbito de sua função atípica decisional, ditada pelo próprio texto constitucional, legitimador e impositivo das ações valorativas substanciais no âmbito do Estado Democrático de Direito. Palavras-chave: Direito Constitucional. Direito Administrativo. Democracia. Princípio da juridicidade administrativa. Procedimentalismo. Substancialismo. Abstract: The purpose of this text is to define the role of the Public Administration in the interpretation and application of the constitutional text with regard to the realization of fundamental rights in countries of late modernity, under the protection of the tension between what was called “proceduralism” and “legal substantiality”. In an initial line, it seeks to address the contours of the tendency to legitimize the administrative-legal function of a countermajoritarian constitutional character, to assess a new and important task for the Executive State, in addition to its common conception of "faithful executor of the law". In order to conclude that constitutional justice involves jurisdiction (through the Judiciary) and “juridicialism” (through Public Administration). Under this latter perspective, this paper points out that the application and the scope of its atypical decision-making function, dictated by the constitutional text itself, legitimating and imposing substantial value actions within the Democratic State of Law. Keywords: Administrative Law. Constitutional Law. Democracy. Principle of administrative juridicialism. Proceduralism. Substantialism.

The Problems of Delimitation of Judicial Powers between the Courts of General Jurisdiction and Regional Constitutional (Charter) Judicial Authorities

2019 ◽  
pp. 45-50
Keyword(s):  
Constitutional Law ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Administrative Law ◽  
Judicial System ◽  
Judicial Control ◽  
Federal Constitutional ◽  
Constitutional Justice ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Administrative Proceedings ◽  
Local Levels

The article deals with the issues of correlation of constitutional (charter) justice and administrative proceedings exercised by courts of general jurisdiction while implementing judicial control. Having interpreted the provisions of Federal Constitutional Law «On the Judicial System of the Russian Federation» and the Russian Code of Administrative Proceedings, the authors show the shortcomings inherent in the current legal regulation of the competence of the judiciary, its inaccuracy, which leads to possibility of different interpretations of the rules. The norms of the Code of Administrative Proceedings may create so-called dual jurisdiction when the same case falls into the jurisdictions of a court of general jurisdiction and a regional constitutional (charter) court. To prevent such a situation, in those sub-federal entities where regional constitutional (charter) courts are created it is the responsibility of these courts to deal with cases contesting normative legal acts of regional and local levels. For this purpose the authors substantiate the need to improve the regulation of the powers of courts of general jurisdiction in the field of administrative law control, taking into account related institutions of constitutional justice. In particular, they propose some amendments to the Law of the Sverdlovsk region «On the Charter Court of the Sverdlovsk region».

scholarly journals El Brexit y su impacto en la Europa de los derechos: el desafío británico al Derecho constitucional europeo // The Brexit and its impact on the Europe of human rights: the british challenge to European Constitutional Law.

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (100) ◽  
pp. 1169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatriz Tomás Mallén
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Constitutional Law ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
The Other ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Council Of Europe ◽  
Road Map ◽  
Derechos Humanos ◽  
Constitutional Culture ◽  
The Eu

Resumen:El presente artículo examina críticamente la decisión histórica de retirada de la UE adoptada en el Reino Unido en el referéndum del Brexit de 23 de junio de 2016, desde una perspectiva de Derecho Constitucional Europeo. En efecto, se hace hincapié en el impacto negativo del Brexit en la construcción de una Europa de los derechos humanos. Desde este punto de vista, se destaca la permanente actitud vacilante del Reino Unido entre el reclamo de la supremacía británica y la necesidad de fortalecer una cultura constitucional europea común, teniendo en cuenta las dinámicas de la «adhesión» y de la «exclusión parcial» tanto en relación con la UE como con el Consejo de Europa y sus principales instrumentos de derechos humanos. Por otra parte, el artículo somete a análisis las inconsistencias del «Libro Blanco del Brexit» presentado como documento oficial del Gobierno británico en el campo de los derechos fundamentales. En fin, se concluye que el Brexit puede ser una decisión histórica equivocada que debilita la cultura constitucional británica y, correlativamente, una oportunidad para que los demás Estados miembros de la UE optimicen el proceso de integración europea y la calidad de sus propios regímenes democráticos.Summary:I. Introduction: the Brexit as a result of the eurosceptic british constitutionalism. II. The United Kingdom as a promoter (paradoxically) of a comprehensive Europe of rights. 1. The emblematic constitution in London of the Council of Europe. 2. The late assumption of the basic standards of European rights culture. III. The initial exclusion and successive british exceptions to the european rights community. 1. The EFTA and the promotion of the integrated Europe of rights, without integrating it. 2. Partial exceptions on rights in the revisions of the European Treaties. 3. The total amendment to the Europe of rights: rejection of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. IV. The Brexit road map as an abandonment of the European constitutional order of rights. 1. Distancing from the European catalog of rights. 2. Disregard for the CJEU. 3. The road map at the crossroads: the thin frontier between the European Union and the Council of Europe. V. Final thoughts: the commitment to the strengthening of a Europe of rights, despite Brexit.Abstract:This essay critically examines the historical decision of withdrawal from the EU adopted in United Kingdom in the Brexit referendum of 23 June 2016 under a European Constitutional Law perspective. Indeed, the focus is put on the negative impact of the Brexit in building a Europe of human rights. From this point of view, the author highlights the United Kingdom’s permanent hesitation between a claim for the British supremacy and a need for strengthening a Common European Constitutional culture, by taking into account the dynamics of either «accession» or «partial out-puts» in relation to both the EU and the Council of Europe and their main human rights instruments. On the other hand, the paper submits to scrutiny the inconsistencies of the British Government’s official «Brexit White Paper» in the field of fundamental rights. The author concludes that the Brexit might be a wrong historic decision weakening the British Constitutional culture and, correlatively, an opportunity for the other EU Member States to optimize the European integration process as well as the quality of their own democratic regimes. 

Kelsen versus Schmitt and the Role of the Sub-National Entities and Minorities in the Appointment of Constitutional Judges in Continental Systems

ICL Journal ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 523-543
Author(s):  
Antoni Abat Ninet
Keyword(s):  
European Commission ◽  
Constitutional Law ◽  
Separation Of Powers ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Constitutional Courts ◽  
The Third ◽  
Comparative Constitutional Law ◽  
Constitutional Justice ◽  
The Guardian

Abstract In composed and decentralised states, sub-national entities and (ethnic, linguistic, racial) minorities ought to play a determinant role in the process of appointment of constitutional courts justices to obtain a balanced representation in the guardian of the constitution. The necessary appearance of constitutional justice independence can be at stake without a proportionated participation of minorities and sub-national entities in the court. It is not enough to introduce a symbolic presence. The first section of this essay analyses the transcendence and political-legal significance that the system of appointment of constitutional court judges has and its relation to the separation of powers (horizontal and vertical). The second section is a return to the roots, ie the system of appointment the Austrian Constitution of 1920, even that first constitutional court was created in 1919, and Kelsen’s theory on federalism. The third section carries out an analysis from a comparative constitutional law perspective by using as an analytical basis the reports on the composition of the Constitutional Courts of the European Commission for Democracy through Law. The paper ends with a reflection on Schmitt considerations on the Guardians of Constitutions.

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