scholarly journals Venice Commission: the role in the process of international and national law interpretation

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (special) ◽  
Author(s):  
Svitlana KARVATSKA ◽  
Ivan TORONCHUK ◽  
Alyona MANYK
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Law ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Classical Theory ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Venice Commission ◽  
Theory Of Law ◽  
Ongoing Dialogue ◽  
Supranational Level

The article aims to study the Venice Commission's role as one of the leading international law interpreters. This role has gradually strengthened in the process of scientifically substantiated promotion of legal norms and standards concerning democracy, human rights, and the rule of law. Using system-structural, formal-legal, comparative-legal, empirical, and anthropological methods, one has drawn essential conclusions regarding implementing the Venice Commission's interpretive activities. As a result, it has been proved that the nature of the Venice Commission's interpretive activity demonstrates the existence and growing contradiction between the prevailing interpretive practice at the supranational level and the provisions of the classical theory of law interpretation. Ukraine's ongoing dialogue with the Venice Commission is vital to develop and improve legislation, especially laws, implementing new constitutional provisions on justice, the drafts of which have already been designed or are being developed, as well as indubitable compliance with these laws. Venice Commission's general documents should be for the Ukrainian legislator the source to base the preparation of relevant legislation.

The Involvement of UN in Palestine and the Possibility of a Global Protection Force

2021 ◽  
pp. 105-112
Author(s):  
Kainat Kamal
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Law ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Peacekeeping Operations ◽  
Security Environment ◽  
Sustainable Peace ◽  
Un Peacekeeping ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
Peacekeeping Missions

The United Nations (UN) peacekeeping missions are mandated to help nations torn by conflict and create conditions for sustainable peace. These peacekeeping operations hold legitimacy under international law and the ability to deploy troops to advance multidimensional domains. Peacekeeping operations are called upon to maintain peace and security, promote human rights, assist in restoring the rule of law, and help conflict-prone areas create conditions for sustainable peace ("What is Peacekeeping", n.d.). These missions are formed and mandated according to individual cases. The evolution of the global security environment and developing situations in conflictridden areas requires these missions to transform from 'traditional' to 'robust' to 'hybrid', accordingly (e.g., Ishaque, 2021). So why is it that no such model can be seen in restoring peace and protection of Palestinian civilians in one of the most protracted and deadly conflicts in history?

The Psychosis of Permanent War

2014 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-51
Author(s):  
Chris Hedges
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
International Law ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The United States ◽  
Pulitzer Prize ◽  
Jewish State ◽  
The Rule Of Law

In this no-holds-barred essay, former New York Times Middle East correspondent and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Chris Hedges examines how the United States’ staunch support provides Israel with impunity to visit mayhem on a population which it subjugates and holds captive. Notwithstanding occasional and momentary criticism, the official U.S. cheerleading stance is not only an embarrassing spectacle, Hedges argues, it is also a violation of international law, and an illustration of the disfiguring and poisonous effect of the psychosis of permanent war characteristic of both countries. The author goes on to conclude that the reality of its actions against the Palestinians, both current and historical, exposes the fiction that Israel stands for the rule of law and human rights, and gives the lie to the myth of the Jewish state and that of its sponsor, the United States.

scholarly journals Ordre du droit et droit de l'ordre

2005 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 699-729
Author(s):  
Jacques Zylberberg
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
International Law ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Sovereign State ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Civil And Political Rights

This essay undertakes a review of national and international law to demonstrate that law is mainly an ideological and variable instrument of the State and of the United Nations, which is a by-product of the states. In this perspective, the author opposes the pragmatical ideology of resistance against the sovereign state to the juridical legitimation and the behaviour of the States who reluctantly have conceded some civil and political rights. Those rights are endangered by the growing bureaucratization of the state, the inflation of the juridical norms and rules, in addition to the permanent repressive characters of the State. The criticism of the contradiction and the variation of the rule of law when it relates to "human rights" is also extended to international law as well as to the international organizations.

scholarly journals La primauté du droit : la situation des immigrants et des réfugiés en droit canadien au regard des Chartes et des textes internationaux

2005 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 585-624 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Brunelle
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Law ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Immigrants And Refugees ◽  
Long Time ◽  
International Obligations ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Discretionary Powers

The « rule of law » which for a long time was considered as an unwritten part of the Constitution now enjoys full constitutional status. Its enshrining in the preamble of the Canadian Charter sheds considerable light on the manner in which the rights and freedoms of the Charter should be perceived. The author opens his discussion by examining the impact that the constitutionalization of the « rule of law » has had on immigrants and refugees in Canada. As the Immigration Act of 1976 confers numerous discretionary powers which could result in their abusive use, the author analyses how the Human Rights charters applicable in Canada and in Quebec can insure the legal protection of immigrants and refugees. In the second part of his study, the author discusses the principal international texts ratified by Canada which have as their purpose the protection of the rights of immigrants and refugees. As international law is not « self-enforcing » in Canada, the author shows how the internal legal community conforms to the international obligations contracted by Canada.

scholarly journals The Council of Europe’s Responses to the Decay of the Rule of Law and Human Rights Protections: A Comparative Appraisal

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Başak Çalı ◽  
Esra Demir-Gürsel
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Council Of Europe ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
European Court ◽  
Institutional Features ◽  
Venice Commission

Abstract This article introduces the Special Issue on ‘The Responses of the Council of Europe to the Decay of the Rule of Law and Human Rights Protections’. The Council of Europe (CoE), a unique international organisation with its commitment to protect and promote human rights, the rule of law, and democracy, has been severely tested by the spread and consolidation of trends posing systemic threats to its foundational goals. The authors of this Special Issue assess how the European Court of Human Rights, the Venice Commission, the Parliamentary Assembly, the Committee of Ministers, and the office of the Secretary General have addressed systemic threats to the foundational principles of the organisation in the last decade. The Special Issue finds that the respective legal-institutional features and capacities of the CoE organs as well as the constraining influence of the broader political context in Europe on them vary significantly, hampering the CoE’s ability to produce timely, consistent, and co-ordinated responses against systemic threats.

scholarly journals DISCUSSION ON ISSUES OF THE THEORY OF LEGAL INCENTIVES

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 562-567
Author(s):  
Aleksandr Gavritskiy ◽  
Svetlana Miroshnik
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Human Factor ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Social Actions ◽  
Legal Relationship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Theory Of Law ◽  
Definition Of

The purpose of this article is to examine legal incentives as a form of a lawful norm to improve the social actions of individuals. A definition of legal incentive as a variety of legal norms is formulated and the features and principles of an incentivizing legal relationship identified and formulated. The provisions can be viewed as approaches for solving the problems of motivating lawful behavior and for use in analyzing practical problems associated with the theory of law, legal culture, and the rule of law. The concept offered reveals new possibilities for cognition of legal relations that are important for developing the theory of legal norms and the theoretical aspects of the realization of law. The functional approach underlying the research emphasizes the importance of this form of law and promotes the more efficient use of the its potential. The conclusions are relevant for further theoretical studies and the development of a policy by private companies aimed at activating the human factor to increase the productivity of their employees.

Artificial intelligence, legal system and state functions

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandr Bratko
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Legal System ◽  
The State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Methodological Problems ◽  
Theory Of Law ◽  
State Functions

The monograph deals with methodological problems of embedding artificial intelligence in the legal system taking into account the laws of society. Describes the properties of the rule of law as a Microsystem in subsystems of law and methods of its fixation in the system of law and logic of legal norms. Is proposed and substantiated the idea of creating specifically for artificial intelligence, separate and distinct, unambiguous normative system, parallel to the principal branches of law is built on the logic of the four-membered structure of legal norms. Briefly discusses some of the theory of law as an instrument of methodology of modelling of the legal system and its semantic codes in order to function properly an artificial intelligence. The ways of application of artificial intelligence in the functioning of the state. For students and teachers and all those interested in issues of artificial intelligence from the point of view of law.

scholarly journals Correlation of Formal Clarity and Rule of Law

2021 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-34
Author(s):  
Е. Є. Сілантьєва
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Legal Requirements ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Complex Characteristic ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
Venice Commission

Comprehensive analysis of approaches to understanding the essence of the categories of “rule of law” and “formal clarity” has been carried out within the framework of the conducted research. The author in order to properly understand the category of “rule of law”, has provided the views of both international and domestic researchers, who determine its essence. The author of the work has determined the content of the concept of the rule of law on the basis of the characteristics of the rule of law. A comprehensive analysis of the reports of the European Commission and the Venice Commission on the elements of the rule of law has been conducted. Particular attention has been also paid to the essence of the rule of law principles, which are reflected in those documents. The main requirements relating to the rule of law principle, as well as the main purpose of this principle have been provided. The author has conducted the analysis of approaches to understanding and clarifying the essence of formal clarity provided to this category by both domestic and international researchers. The main requirements for formal clarity have been provided. The procedural requirements inherent in formal clarity have been also separately mentioned in the research. On the basis of the conducted complex characteristic and defining the essence of the categories of “rule of law” and “formal clarity” the author has carried out the analysis of their parity. The approaches of domestic and international researchers in this regard have been provided. It has been emphasized that one of the fundamental aspects of the protection of human rights and freedoms is the formal clarity of law. It has been noted in the conclusion that the formal clarity of law implies a set of precise, unambiguous and transparent legal requirements for both lawmaking and law-enforcement processes designed to ensure the realization of human rights, interests and freedoms, as well as protection against possible manifestations of state arbitrariness that makes it possible to avoid a number of mistakes, offenses and misunderstandings of life situations.

Opinia prawna w sprawie rekomendacji Komisji Weneckiej dotyczących wyborów w stanach nadzwyczajnych i ich znaczenia dla wyborów prezydenckich w Polsce w 2020 r.

2021 ◽  
Vol 2(163) ◽  
pp. 243-265
Author(s):  
Dariusz Dudek
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Specific Situation ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
States Of Emergency ◽  
Venice Commission ◽  
Electoral Law

The author presents a constitutional regulation of the Polish model of presidential election and states of emergency and relates them to the specific situation of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Then, he analyses in detail the content of the recommendations of the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) of 26 May 2020 (Respect for Democracy, Human Rights and the Rule of Law during States of Emergency – Reflections), regarding the elections in states of emergency and its significance for the presidential election in Poland in 2020. The opinion positively evaluates all the Commission’s recommendations and considers that the existing and new exceptional Polish electoral law regulations respecting the principles of democracy and rule of law are fully complaint with them.

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