The settlement of disputes of a constitutional nature: inside the Romanian Constitutional Court s rulings on the role and competences of the public authorities

2018 ◽  
pp. 51-70
Author(s):  
TUDOREL TOADER
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Constitutional Courts ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Constitutional Justice ◽  
Settlement Of Disputes

The separation and balance of State powers constitute the basis of the rule of law. Observance of this principle requires framing of public authorities within the limits of competence established by the Constitution and the law, as well as loyal cooperation between them. From this perspective, the attribution of the constitutional courts for settling legal disputes of a constitutional nature is an important tool for correcting the tendencies of violation of these limits, as well as for identifying solutions for situations that do not find an explicit regulation in the constitutional texts. The present study analyses the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court of Romania in the field of legal disputes of a constitutional nature, revealing, together with the presentation of dispute situations, the vulnerabilities of the constitutional reference texts. It is also highlighted the role of the constitutional courts in the evolution of constitutional law institutions. The conclusion of the study, beyond the subject of legal disputes of a constitutional nature, bears on the necessity, even more so in this matter, of the certainty of jurisdictional interpretation. This certainty cannot be achieved as long as the interpretation is not authoritative; consequently, the assurance of the effectiveness of constitutional justice constitute a key issue of the rule of law.

The Role of the Constitutional Court in the Development of the Rule of Law in Kosovo

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 274-313
Author(s):  
Enver Hasani
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Constitutional History ◽  
Constitutional Courts ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Communist Countries

Kosovo’s Constitutional Court has played a role of paramount importance in the country’s recent history. The author uses a comparative analysis to discuss the role of the Court in light of the work and history of other European constitutional courts. This approach sheds light on the Court’s current role by analyzing Kosovo’s constitutional history, which shows that there has been a radical break with the past. This approach reveals the fact that Kosovo’s current Constitution does not reflect the material culture of the society of Kosovo. This radical break with the past is a result of the country’s tragic history, in which case the fight for constitutionalism means a fight for human dignity. In this battle for constitutionalism, the Court has been given very broad jurisdiction and a role to play in paving the way for Kosovo to move toward Euro-Atlantic integration in all spheres of life. Before reaching this conclusion, the author discusses the specificities of Kosovo’s transition, comparing it with other former communist countries. Among the specific features of constitutionalism in Kosovo are the role and position of the international community in the process of constitution-making and the overall design of constitutional justice in Kosovo. Throughout the article, a conclusion emerges that puts Kosovo’s Constitutional Court at the forefront of the fight for the rule of law and constitutionalism of liberal Western provenance.

scholarly journals Constitutionalizing the act of justice in the European Union

2020 ◽  
pp. 47-63
Author(s):  
MARIETA SAFTA
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Constitutional Courts ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
The Public ◽  
Necessary Being ◽  
National Courts ◽  
Constructive Dialogue

This study addresses a component of the constitutionalization process at the Union level, namely the act of justice, considering its importance for the evolution of the constitutionalization process. The significance and importance of the constitutionalization of the act of justice are analyzed, as well as the premises and mechanisms of the constitutionalization of the act of justice in the European Union, with particular reference to the jurisprudence of the Romanian Constitutional Court. In this context, the control of constitutionality appears as a decisive modeling factor of the normative action of the legislator and even of the public policies. The constructive dialogue – if we refer to the two legal orders, national and supranational – is all the more necessary, being noticeable the key role played by national courts – and in particular constitutional courts – in defending the rule of law in the European Union, including through their collaboration with the CJEU in cases and through the instruments provided for in the Constitutions and the Treaties.

scholarly journals Constitutional Justice

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (33) ◽  
pp. 135-142
Author(s):  
Anca-Florina Moroșteș ◽  
Narcisa-Mihaela Stoicu
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Democratic State ◽  
Constitutional Justice ◽  
The Law

Abstract The paper with the title “Constitutional Justice” aims to analyse a topic of urgent actuality and of particular importance in the contemporary society. We have tried to show in this paper the importance of the Constitutional control in the rule of law. Starting from the idea of necessity of existence of a Constitution in a democratic State and, implicitly, of a body to follow-up the compliance with its provision, we have tried to highlight in this paper the role of Romanian Constitutional Court and not only, by presenting one of its most important attributions which is the control of the law constitutionality.

scholarly journals La revisión del modelo de gestión pública : efectos de la reposición del ámbito privado en el marco jurídico público

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julián Torrado Sancho
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Status ◽  
Transformation Processes

Los procesos de transformación en la Gestión Pública han actuado en las funciones y organización de la Administración, produciendo cambios que han afectado tanto a las relaciones entre el ámbito público y privado, en el seno de los poderes públicos y sus órganos administrativos, como entre los procedimientos técnicos y jurídicos que los conforman. Una revisión de estos fenómenos lleva a la necesidad de realizar un estudio más profundo y objetivo acerca del papel del marco jurídico público y, especialmente, el régimen jurídico administrativo, ante la necesidad de abrir nuevos enfoques y perspectivas sobre la situación del Estado de Derecho.The transformation processes in public management have acted on the functions and organization of the administration, producing changes that have affected both the relationships between the public and private, within public authorities and administrative bodies, and between technical and legal procedures that conform. A review of these phenomena leads to the need for a more thorough and objective study on the role of public legal framework, especially the administrative legal system, given the need to open up new approaches and perspectives on the status of the rule of law.

scholarly journals CONSTITUTIONALIZATION OF THE INSTITUTE OF THE PEOPLE`S RULE THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE RULE OF LAW IN THE CONDITIONS OF GLOBALIZATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 75-93
Author(s):  
A. О. Yanchuk ◽  
N. V. Yefremova
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Main Mechanism ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Constitutional Courts ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Fundamental Freedoms ◽  
Literature Culture

The modern researchers are increasingly beginning to address the issue of constitutionalization of public relations, noting that this process is inextricably linked with the activities of constitutional courts, which in one way or another affect the process of constitutionalization of public relations, legal family, national and other features is noted. The issue of constitutional modernization of the institution of democracy in the context of the national ground of awareness of the rule of law through the prism of domestic philosophy, literature, culture, highlights the decisions of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine as the main external form of interpretation of constitutional provisions democracy as a product of the system of state bodies, the actualization of attention to constitutionalism as the main mechanism of this institution. Constitutionalism is seen as a socio-political system that limits the arbitrariness of power and determines the guarantees of human rights and fundamental freedoms. In the narrow sense, constitutionalism is embodied in the activities of constitutional justice bodies to verify the legal acts of public authorities for their constitutionality. It is such properties of constitutionalism as the restriction of arbitrariness, the definition of guarantees of human rights and fundamental freedoms through the Constitutional Court of Ukraine's review of legal acts of the authorities for their constitutionality allows to include constitutionalism in the main mechanism of building democracy in Ukraine, ensuring its forms and mechanisms. Proved matched constitutionalism as a phenomenon and as a process konstytutsionalizatsiya a priority mechanism construction in Ukraine democracy that is provided, including verification of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine acts of the authorities for their compliance with the general postulates of the rule of law.

scholarly journals A Populist Monster and the future of Constitutional Democracy

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-100
Author(s):  
Andraž Teršek
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Court Decisions ◽  
Constitutional Democracy ◽  
Council Of Europe ◽  
Constitutional Courts ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Eu

Abstract The central objective of the post-socialist European countries which are also Member States of the EU and Council of Europe, as proclaimed and enshrined in their constitutions before their official independence, is the establishment of a democracy based on the rule of law and effective legal protection of fundamental human rights and freedoms. In this article the author explains what, in his opinion, is the main problem and why these goals are still not sufficiently achieved: the ruthless simplification of the understanding of the social function and functioning of constitutional courts, which is narrow, rigid and holistically focused primarily or exclusively on the question of whether the judges of these courts are “left or right” in purely daily-political sense, and consequently, whether constitutional court decisions are taken (described, understood) as either “left or right” in purely and shallow daily-party-political sense/manner. With nothing else between and no other foundation. The author describes such rhetoric, this kind of superficial labeling/marking, such an approach towards constitutional law-making as a matter of unbearable and unthinking simplicity, and introduces the term A Populist Monster. The reasons that have led to the problem of this kind of populism and its devastating effects on the quality and development of constitutional democracy and the rule of law are analyzed clearly and critically.

Crisis of the Rule of Law in Europe: The Cases of Hungary, Poland and Spain

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-398
Author(s):  
David Parra Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Separation Of Powers ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Institutional Reforms ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
The Public ◽  
Division Of Powers ◽  
European Democracy ◽  
Aggressive Interference

Democracy is an instrument at the service of a noble purpose: to ensure the freedom and equality of all citizens by guaranteeing the civil, political and social rights contained in constitutional texts. Among the great principles on which this instrument rests is the division of powers, which consists, substantially, in the fact that power is not concentrated, but that the various functions of the State are exercised by different bodies, which, moreover, control each other. Well, the increasingly aggressive interference of the Executive and, to a lesser extent, the Legislative in material spheres that should be reserved exclusively for the Judiciary, violates this principle and, for this reason, distorts the idea of democracy, an alarming trend that, for some time now, are observed in European Union countries such as Hungary, Poland and Spain. Preventing the alarming degradation of European democracy, of which these three countries are an example, requires not only more than necessary institutional reforms to ensure respect for these principles and prevent the arbitrariness of the public authorities, but also a media network and an education system that explains and promotes these values and principles, that is, one that makes citizens aware of and defend constitutionalism. Keywords: Rule of law; Democracy; Separation of powers; judicial independence; Europe.

scholarly journals Legal Mechanisms for Protection of Migrants' Rights by the Public Authorities of the Russian Federation

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ksenia Minakova
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Normative Documents ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Migrants Rights

The article analyzes methods of ensuring the migrants rights by the public authorities of the Russian Federation, the individual elements of the migration policy of the Russian Federation relating to the activities of public authorities. It considers the activities in the field of protection of the migrants rights by such authorities as the Russian President's Office for Constitutional Rights of Citizens, the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights, the Council for Interethnic Relations, General Directorate for Migration, Chief Directorate for Migration Issues of Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, their normative documents, that regulate their activities. It examines separately the activities of the RF Government in the field of protection of the migrants rights, as well as judicial authorities; it identifies the special role of the RF Constitutional Court in the field of ensuring the rights of migrants, refugees, the internally displaced and stateless persons. It underlines the role of authority bodies of the RF entities in ensuring the migrants rights in terms of Irkursk Oblast. The article offers to differentiate strictly the role of each authority body in the field of migrants rights protection, as well as to pay specific attention to regulation of activities of the FR entities authority bodies in this direction.

scholarly journals The Responsibility of Courts in Maintaining the Rule of Law: Two Tales of Consequential Judicial Self-Restraint

2021 ◽  
pp. 155-181
Author(s):  
Pál Sonnevend
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Court Decisions ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Constitutional Courts ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Legislative Power ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Law

AbstractModern constitutionalism is based on the paradigm that courts are inherently entitled and obliged to enforce the constitution of the respective polity. This responsibility of courts also applies in the context of the European Union to both the CJEU and national constitutional courts. The present chapter argues that in the face of constitutional crises the CJEU and the Hungarian Constitutional Court shy away from applying the law as it is to the full. The reasons behind this unwarranted judicial self-restraint are most different: the CJEU aims to avoid conflicts with national constitutional courts whereas the Hungarian Constitutional Court has been facing a legislative power also acting as constitution making power willing to amend the constitution to achieve specific legislative purposes or to undo previous constitutional court decisions. Yet both courts respond to expediencies that do not follow from the law they are called upon to apply. It is argued that rule of law backsliding requires these courts to abandon the unnecessary self-restraint and exploit the means already available.

scholarly journals ЗАСТОСУВАННЯ ТА ІНТЕРПРЕТАЦІЯ ПРИНЦИПУ ВЕРХОВЕНСТВА ПРАВА У КОНСТИТУЦІЙНОМУ ПРАВОСУДДІ

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 41-49
Author(s):  
О. І. Махніцький
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
The Body ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Constitutional Justice

Стаття присвячена проблемам застосування та інтерпретації принципу верховенства права в конституційному правосудді. Автор аналізує інтерпретаційну практику Консти­туційного Суду України та доктринальні позиції органу конституційної юрисдикції щодо сутності та змісту верховенства права. Робиться висновок щодо вирішального значення принципу верховенства права у діяльності органу конституційної юрисдикції з метою гарантування верховенства Конституції України як Основного Закону держави на всій території України, а також резюмується, що діяльність Конституційного Суду України щодо відправлення конституційного судочинства сьогодні пов'язана з необхідністю ви­рішення складних суспільних проблем, пошуком та визначенням «розуміння» права взагалі та верховенства права зокрема.   The article is dedicated to the Implementation and Interpretation of rule of law principle in Constitutional Justice. The author analyzes interpretation practices of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine and doctrinal positions of the body of Constitutional Justice in relation to the essence and content of the rule of law. The author comes to the conclusion about the utmost significance of the principle of rule of law in the work of the body of Constitutional jurisdiction to ensure supremacy of Ukrainian Constitution as the Supreme Law on the territory of Ukraine. In summary the author states that all activities of the Constitutional Court today are aimed at the necessity to resolve complex social problems and the need to comprehend the notion of law and rule of law in particular.

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