Improvement of the constitutional mechanism for the protection of constitutionalism in Russia

The subject. The article names the conflict situations that have developed in the Russian Federation that threaten Russian constitutionalism, searches for ways to resolve them, and outlines measures to improve the constitutional and legal protection of the constitutional system and the territorial integrity of our state.The purpose of this article is to identify threats to constitutionalism in the Russian Federation from the point of view of the ethnopolitical and historical development of Russia as well as to identify conflict situations that generate these threats.The methodology. Dialectical method, systematic approach and system analysis, formaldogmatic, logical-legal, comparative-legal, concrete-historical and sociological methods were used.The main results, scope of application. The article indicates the impact on Russia of the negative processes that led to mass riots in foreign countries, and the conflict situations caused by them. When destabilizing public relations in Russia, one of the first places is occupied by inciting hostility on the basis of national relations, first of all, inciting an aggressive minority against a state-forming ethnic group. Grievances and disagreements that took place in the historical past, as well as contradictions of an interfaith and intercultural nature are used as reasons.The article makes proposals for the prevention, suppression and elimination of negative processes and conflict situations aimed at strengthening Russian constitutionalism.They are reduced not only to strict compliance with the existing constitutional and sectoral norms; elimination of contradictions in the Constitution, as well as the specification of constitutional norms by sectoral rules; timeliness, proportionality and inevitability of state coercion measures applied to offenders. Restoration and accelerated development of sectorsof the national economy destroyed during the perestroika; increasing the number of jobs with decent wages; employment of citizens of the Russian Federation first of all; comprehensive expansion of the network of professional training in industrial and technical specialties are among the important measures to protect constitutionalism.

Understanding the Reasons for Transition from Iranian Constitutional State to Authoritarian State: an Analysis in the Framework of Laclau and Mouffe’s Discourse Theory

Throughout the history, the formation of the constitutional state has been the first experience of the modern state in Iran. The change in power relations and the restriction of authoritarian power were among the most important issues of constitutional state. The current study aims at investigating the reasons for transition from Constitutional state to an authoritarian bureaucratic state by adopting Laclau and Mouffe’s framework to political discourse analysis. Research methodology is descriptive-analytical conducted by library–based data. The results showed that the constitutional revolution transformed the power structure and traditional state, but the constitutional revolution failed to create a new order. Despite legal provisions such as the formation of the parliamentary system and the constitution, the constitutional state was unable to exercise its legal power. The co-existence of traditional and reactionary components such as the Khānins, tribal leaders, tribal populations and owners in line with modern elements, intellectuals and the heterogeneity of the ruling political elites made the constitutional revolution incapable of producing profound politico-social changes. As a result, a number of internal and external factors such as financial crisis, tribal power, the imperialist treaty of 1907,disillusionment of political elites, the formation of centrifugal forces, insecurity and global chaos and development of neighboring countries, diversity of ideological in line with geopolitical points of view have been the most important factors in the transition to the authoritarian bureaucratic state of Pahlavi and the failure of the nation – building process and the collapse of politico-constitutional system in Iran.

Constitutional Principle of Social Solidarity as a Basis for the Consolidation of the Russian Society and States

The current circumstances related to the Covid-19 pandemic, which the entire world community had to face, raised sharply the question of mutual responsibility of the society and the state. At the same time, restrictions imposed at the state level are most often assessed by citizens as excessive. As a result, the number of studies devoted to establishing the legitimacy of restricting human rights and freedoms in the conditions of the epidemic is growing, however, such a phenomenon as social solidarity remains practically ignored. It is social solidarity, understood as the cohesion of the society (not only in the face of common threats and challenges), that can become the basis for constructive interaction between the society and the state. The aim of the study was the legal understanding of social solidarity as a new constitutional principle of the Russian state, which presupposes the possibility of establishing permissible restrictions on individual rights and freedoms in the conditions of protecting the foundations of the constitutional state from the modern threats. The absence of a normative definition of social solidarity in the current legislation of Russia, despite the constitutional reform carried out in 2020, entails difficulties in the correct interpretation of this phenomenon. The use of both general scientific and special methods of cognition of socio-legal phenomena — the formal legal method and the method of legal modeling — made it possible to see in social solidarity not only the legal structure, but also the leading moral and ethical principle of interaction between the society and the state. The analysis of the domestic legal acts made it possible to conclude that the constitutional principle of social cohesion of the society and the state in the face of various threats with the observance of such elements as the rule of law, the constitutional provision of individual rights and freedoms and the conditions for their permissible restriction is the basis for the inviolability of the state and its constitutional system.

The Constitutional and Legal Organization of the Supreme Constitutional Court in the Iraqi State for the Year 2005

The constitutional system in Iraq after the overthrow of the previous regime in 2003 witnessed major fundamental changes, which marked the end of a historical era, the advent of the beginning of a new phase of political and constitutional history, and the adoption of the federal (federal) system as a form of the new Iraqi state, where Iraq transformed from a simple state to a complex state. With the adoption of the democratic parliamentary system based on the principle of separation of powers and respect for the constitution by emphasizing the principle of the supremacy of the constitution as a system for the work of state authorities and the management of its various constitutional institutions. If the constitutional distribution of competencies between the federal authorities is one of the essential characteristics of the federal systems, then one of the important features in the design of any federalism and its effective operation is to ensure the rule of law and the constitution as the source of powers, and in contrast, one of the authorities infringes on the powers of the other, which leads to a constitutional imbalance in the federalism And the matter that leads to its disintegration and its end, and in order to preserve this constitutional system, it is necessary to establish a supreme judicial body to ensure respect for the application of the constitutional principles of this system and not to be violated. The federal system is characterized by the presence of a Supreme Constitutional Court that works to monitor the constitutionality of laws and chapters In disputes between the central regions, it has the authority to interpret the Iraqi federal constitution, especially the interpretation of the constitutional rules related to the distribution of constitutional powers between the regions and the federal government. Which is one of the thorny issues in the countries of the union, and on this basis in Iraq the foregoing was the establishment of the Federal Supreme Court, which was granted by the constitution judicial and political competencies in order to exercise its role in preserving the union and the balance of powers within it while preserving the constitution and safeguarding its principles.

The Logic of Institutions in a Systemic Approach. Institutions in Law and Law-related Fields as Closed and Open Systems

As to the conceptualisation of any one institution, the apparently identical notional term can cover four types of institutional systems: (1) the actually existing concrete system, which is a unit that functions as it is (e.g., constitutional system of liberalism as practised in a given area in a given time, e.g., in the United States nowadays); (2) the historically developed concrete system which is a unit that functions as it has been (e.g., constitutional system of liberalism as practised in a given area in a given period, e.g., in the United States since the time it developed); (3) the generalisation of the historically concrete systems as developed in our civilisation (e.g., the constitutional system of liberalism as known and practised in our civilisation); and (4) the core idea of the functioning underlying all kinds of generalisation (e.g., the abstract universal formulation of the ultimate principles of operation, of which the constitutional system of liberalism is but one of the theoretically possible forms of realisation). Within a quasi monographic analysis of them, both their role as a normative ideology and their actual objectivity and contingency are treated.

Foreign experience of decentralization of power and prospects for Ukraine

The author of the article has outlined the problem of finding the most optimal model of the state for of government, because the necessary condition for stable development of society and effective functioning of the state is to ensure the balance between national interests and the interests of the population of regions and territorial communities. The preconditions, political history and periods of the formation of decentralized power in most European medieval states, scientific positions of national and foreign legal scholars on the expediency of implementing decentralization have been analyzed. It has been found out that the vast majority of Western European countries abdicate the unitary state model by introducing decentralization. The leading idea of reforming is to move the center of solving local issues to the local and, in particular regional level that is achieved by optimizing relations between different levels of territorial organization of power. National traditions, formation and functioning of public agencie in the past, specific features of administrative and territorial structure of the state, existence of autonomous territories, multiethnic population have a significant influence on the formation of the constitutional system on the basis of decentralization in the EU countries. The positive experience Poland, France, Italy, Latvia, Germany and Denmark has been studied. The author has theoretically substantiated that the principle of decentralization has been successfully implemented in the practice of the European Union countries. It has been indicated that the prerequisite for the successful implementation of decentralization processes to create an effective model of governance within the system of decentralized government of Ukraine is: the establishment of the rule of law principle; recognition and guarantees of local self-government; equal legal protection of all forms of ownership; democratic and effective electoral legislation; independence, efficiency, accessibility and transparency of the judicial system, functioning of administrative justice institutions; perfect budget process and high financial discipline; availability of adequate social standards; developed public sector and stable tendency towards its development.

Problems of Detecting Economic Crimes in Ukraine (1996–2021)

Criminological investigation of correlation between corruption and organized economic crime testifies that organized crime and corruption first of all endangers national security of Ukraine, its further development, ensuring constitutional system, proper functioning of all political-economic system. That is why not accidentally the Decrees of the President of Ukraine “On Complex Earmarked for a Specific Purpose Program for Fighting Criminality” and “On Complex Program in Preventing Criminality” define fighting organized crime and corruption in an economic sphere as one of priority directions. Detecting of organized crimes committed under not obvious circumstances is a complicated and multifactored. The necessity of quick and correct solving informational, methodological, tactical, psychological, technical and many other issues predetermined active participation of inquiry and search workers, the Security Service, militia, its operative detachments, the Procurator’s Office, experts, professionals, and the public. That is why a complex approach to fighting crime, including economic one, needs further development, also improvement in co-operation between all law-enforcement and controlling organs is needed. The work in this direction should be considered one of priorities for state organs nowadays and in future.

Shaping Presidential Powers in Hungary: Convention, Tradition and Informal Constitutional Amendments

There was no tradition of a republican president in Hungary before the fall of communism, and the transitory constitution of 1989 was unclear about the exact role the President should play in the constitutional system of Hungary. Some provisions even resembled those of presidential or semi-presidential systems; some ambiguities were clarified during the first two decades after the transition. Conventions, however, were established to some extent and sometimes very quickly. This period gave rise to guidelines as to how the powers of the President should be exercised. Some other powers were concretized and interpreted foremost by the Constitutional Court. These conventions and judicial interpretations formed the character of the Presidency to the extent of informal constitutional change. Some of these elements have even been incorporated into and formalized by the new Fundamental Law of Hungary. The present contribution will point out how the originally broad competencies of the President have been narrowed in the practice, and what role the Constitutional Court and political actors played in this process.

POLOŽAJ VLADE U USTAVNO-PRAVNOM SISTEMU REPUBLIKE SRBIJE

The author analyzes the composition, affairs and tasks of the Government, as well as the Government's attitude towards the National Assembly, the President of the Republic and the state administration, in order to more precisely normative position the Government as the bearer of executive power in the constitutional system of Serbia. The Government of the Republic of Serbia, together with the state administration, represents an extremely complex, fundamentally important system for the functioning of the institutional, legal and political order of our country. Building a legitimate and efficient relationship of cooperation with these bodies, while respecting the competencies and control mechanisms of the Government provided by the Constitution and laws, is a necessary factor in further upgrading Serbia as a state governed by the rule of law, achieving the principle of separation of powers in Serbia.

Editorial Foreword in English

The International Review of Law has always been a comprehensive scholarly platform for numerous legal studies, especially in terms of their visions and approaches, which reflect the cognitively disciplined and renewable legal thoughts. The International Review of Law reinforces the national law by being open to different legal systems regionally and internationally. The Review of Law serves as a stage for all readers with a passion for law. It has also updated its data on the DOAJ platform to reach the largest number of readers. The editorial board of the International Review of Law selected a number of research papers that respond to the standards of authentic and accurate scientific work in both Arabic and English. This issue contains nine high-quality scientific research, in addition to three book reviews. The first paper (Obeidat and Alfadel) evaluates “The Dominant Position and Its Impact on Competition within the Framework of Economic Concentration Processes – Analytical Study in the Jordanian and Qatari legislations.” While the second research paper (Al-Hababi) deals with the “Oppression versus Prosecution in Asylum Cases Under International Law & Municipal Laws.” The third research paper (Lamchichi) focuses on the topic of “Laws with Constitutional Provisions in the Qatari Legislation – An Attempt to Define the Concept.” As for the fourth research paper (Ali); It is concerned with “The Civil Liability of Judicial Experts - A Comparative Study in Qatari and French Laws.” While the fifth research paper (Noh and Sheha) addresses the topic of “Administrative Jurisdiction in Asylum Matters – A Comparative Study between French and Qatari Laws.” The sixth research paper (Reziq) is interested in “Claiming against the Guarantor; Its Time and Scope – Analytical study within Light of the United Arabian Emirates Civil Transactions Law.” The seventh research paper (Al-Khaldi) sheds light on “The Civil Liability of Companies Producing Vaccines and Medicines for Coronavirus (Covid-19).” While the eighth research paper (All-laymoon) focuses on “The Constitutional Status of the Crown Prince in the Jordanian Constitutional System- An Applied Comparative Study with the Qatari and Kuwaiti Constitutional System.” The last research paper (Abu-Sharida) is in English. It answers the following question: “Why Harmful Posts on Social Media should be Regulated.” This issue is concluded by reviews of three books, which have been recently published by Qatar University Press. The first review (Almuhtady bellah), of the book titled: “Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes” by Ibrahim Al-Anani. The second review (Benlahcene), of the book titled: “Qatar and the Gulf Crisis” by Kristian Ulrichsen. The third review (al-Masry), of the book titled: “A Practical Guide to Upstream Petroleum Granting Instruments” by Peter Roberts. The editorial board thanks the distinguished researchers and arbitrators who contributed to this issue’s quality and scientific value, who strive to make the International Review of Law a platform for scientific knowledge that benefits the readers and researchers in various fields.