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Journal articles on the topic "Science of constitutional law"
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Fedorenko, V. L., and M. V. Fedorenko. "Principles of constitutional law: essence, content and system." ACTUAL PROBLEMS OF THE LEGAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE CONDITIONS OF WAR AND THE POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION OF THE STATE, no. 13 (October 1, 2022): 160–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.33663/2524-017x-2022-13-25.
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The publication is devoted to identifying the essence and content of the category of “principle of constitutional law” and identifying its relationship with related but not identical categories: values, ideals, foundations, principles, objectives, mandatory rules, laws, etc. Genesis and development of ideas about the principles of constitutional law and their consolidation in constitutions and constitutional acts are analyzed. The systematization of the main types of relevant principles and groups is carried out: principles of constitutionalism and constitutional doctrine, principles of science and education of constitutional law, principles of the constitution, as well as principles of constitutional law-making, law enforcement and justice (jurisdictional) activities. It is argued that modern constitutions enshrine in the norms-principles the most important values of the constitutional order: the rule of law, rule of law, freedom and democracy, the inviolability of fundamental human rights, etc. But their real embodiment presupposes unification and interaction of civil society with the state. Key words: principle, principle of constitutional law, system of principles of constitutional law, principle of constitutionalism, principle of the Constitution, principles of the science of constitutional law.
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Alexander, Larry. "WHAT ARE CONSTITUTIONS, AND WHAT SHOULD (AND CAN) THEY DO?" Social Philosophy and Policy 28, no. 1 (November 30, 2010): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0265052510000038.
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AbstractA constitution is, as Article VI of the United States Constitution declares, the fundamental law of the land, supreme as a legal matter over any other nonconstitutional law. But that almost banal statement raises a number of theoretically vexed issues. What is law? How is constitutional law to be distinguished from nonconstitutional law? How do morality and moral rights fit into the picture? And what are the implications of the answers to these questions for such questions as how and by whom should constitutions be interpreted? These are the issues that I shall address.Alexander proceeds as follows: In section I he takes up law's principal function of settling controversies over what we are morally obligated to do. In section II he then relate law's settlement function to the role of constitutional law. In particular, he discusses how constitutional law is distinguished from ordinary law, and he also discusses the role of constitutions in establishing basic governmental structures and enforcing certain moral rights. In section III he addresses the topic of constitutional interpretation, and in section IV the topic of judicial review. Finally, in section V, he discusses constitutional change, both change that occurs through a constitution's own rules for amendments and change that is the product of constitutional misinterpretations and revolutions.
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Shustrov, Dmitry. "Supra-constitutional norms in constitutional law." Sravnitel noe konstitucionnoe obozrenie 30, no. 1 (2021): 100–127. http://dx.doi.org/10.21128/1812-7126-2021-1-100-127.
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The idea of supra-constitutionality was formulated in the science of constitutional law in the second quarter of the 20th century and associated with the names of M.Hauriou and K.Schmitt, who for the first time noticed the possibility of the existence of norms that are higher than the constitution. This article is an attempt to give the doctrine of supra-constitutionality an actual theoretical and dogmatic meaning in the context of the study of the material limits of constitutional changes. The doctrine of supra-constitutionality claims to play an important role in explaining that unchangeable norms can exist in constitutional law and that they cannot be excluded, changed, limited, overcome, affected by the other sources of constitutional law, including the constitution itself. Supra-constitutionality is viewed as a characteristic of unchangeable constitutional norms that constitute the material limits of constitutional changes. Supra-constitutionality presupposes the existence of norms that surpass the rest of the constitutional norms and predetermine their content through the definition of what can, should and should not be included in the constitution or excluded from it. The basis of constitutional supra-constitutionality is the argument of hierarchical differentiation. In addition to recognizing unchangeable constitutional norms as supra-constitutional, the article raises the question of the existence of natural law and international law supra-constitutional norms. Natural law supra-constitutional norms have an external and non-positive character. They are not enshrined in the constitution, but stem from a reasonably understood concept of what is due in the most civilized societies, which is determined by the constitutional court. International law supra-constitutionality is understood as the superiority of the norms of international law over the constitution. It has an external and positive character. International law supra-constitutionality can cause political objections from opponents of the absolute rule of international law. Supra-constitutional constitutional, natural and international law norms can come into conflict with each other. The paradox of the doctrine of supra-constitutionality lies in the fact that it creates a hierarchy of norms within the constitution itself, distinguishing between simple and supra-constitutional constitutional norms, or distinguishes certain non-positive norms that are outside the constitution, as having priority over the constitution, or puts some norms of international law over all norms of national law, including the constitution. The purpose of the doctrine of supra-constitutionality is to preserve the inviolable fundamental (natural or generally recognized) values, which justifies its logical flaws and paradoxicality.
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Matat, A. "THE JUSTIFICATION OF CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLES." Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Legal Studies, no. 117 (2021): 54–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/1728-2195/2021/2.117-10.
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This paper deals with the study of the justification of constitutional principles as a fundamental category of constitutional law. Legal principles are an important conception in the legal doctrine and the legal practice of democratic countries. Ukrainian legal doctrine studies legal principles in the two paradigms, namely fundamental principles and general principles. However, this approach does not result in the understanding of principles in constitutional law. That is why principles in constitutional law are an actual topic. The article aims to examine the fundamental concepts to find the justifications of constitutional principles. Hence, the author pays attention to the content of constitutional law and constitutionalism as principles-based categories. First, constitutional law is a fundamental part of the law in the legal system, and all the parts of the law are dependent on constitutional law. Second, the universal constitutional principles are the same for all legal systems. After all, constitutionalism doctrine consists of the limitation of power, and nowadays, this is expressed through the constitution and different constitution principles. The author uses comparative legal, phenomenological, and system-structural analysis as a valid methodology for this research. Finally, the research investigation contains the following conclusions that enable the author to prove the motivation of the science paper to study the outlined topic. First, constitutional law is the basis of the legal system, which embodies constitutional principles; constitutional law has the same effect on public law and private law. Second, constitutionalism is a source for finding constitutional principles. Third, the system of constitutional principles includes the following characteristics: universality and specificity. The system of constitutional principles is open and depends on the interpretation of constitutions. The paper aims to contribute to the growing research highlighting the current issues of constitutional principles. Keywords: principles, constitutional principles, constitutional law, constitutionalism, the system of constitutional principles.
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Roznai, Yaniv. "What are We Talking About When We Talk About “Mixed Constitutions”? Towards a Typology of Constitutional Mixture." Law & Ethics of Human Rights 16, no. 2 (November 1, 2022): 193–215. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/lehr-2022-2010.
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Abstract This article argues that constitutional mixture should be regarded as an inherent, inevitable feature of constitutions, and to some degree all constitutions are mixed. Thus, “mixed constitutions” should not be regarded as a distinct category of constitutions. Instead of asking whether a constitution is mixed, it might therefore be more useful to ask in which characteristics and to what extent a constitution is mixed. To demonstrate this, the article provides a preliminary typology of constitutional mixture considering the form or system of government; the nature or character of government; the religious or secular identity; the flexibility or rigidity of the constitution; and its model of judicial enforcement—judicial or parliamentary supremacy. Examining these constitutional features, allows to shed light on the three different dimensions of “constitutional mixture”: First, the various features of the constitutional order do not function in a binary yes-or-no manner but appear and move along a spectrum. Second, the various features of the constitution change with time. Third, the various features of the constitutional text may be in tension with the features of the society.
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Leliya, Leliya Leliya, and Leliya Leliya. "INDONESIAN STATE LAW IN ITS HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE AND DEVELOPMENT." Pena Justisia: Media Komunikasi dan Kajian Hukum 23, no. 1 (March 19, 2024): 829. http://dx.doi.org/10.31941/pj.v23i1.4143.
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<p>The history of Indonesian constitutional law began in the Dutch colonial period when Indonesia was still called the Dutch East Indies. Then after Indonesia's independence in 1945, for the first time formed a constitution or Basic Law. The focus of the study in this study is to try to explain the development of Indonesian constitutional law from the Old Order era to reform. This is to find out how the history of the development of Indonesian constitutional law from time to time, especially from the beginning of independence to reformation. The method in this study is qualitative, with a historical approach. The data collection method used is the method of library research (library research). Then analyzed using the descriptive-analytic method. At the beginning of independence in 1945, Indonesia's constitutional law was contained in the 1945 Constitution. The 1945 Constitution described Indonesia as a unitary state with a president as the head of state as well as a democratic head of government. Besides that, under Soekarno's government, constitutional law was regulated in several constitutions, including the 1949 RIS constitution and the 1950 UUDS. And Soekarno's government at that time was known for its nationalist and anti-capitalist politics. The Suharto government was known for its authoritarian politics, political stability, and economic growth. Finally, during the reform period, after the fall of President Soeharto in 1998, Indonesia underwent significant political reforms. Constitutional law is regulated in the 1945 Constitution with several amendments which emphasize the principles of democracy, human rights, decentralization of government, and increased political participation. The history of the development of constitutional law in Indonesia in general shows quite dynamic developments and always follows changes according to political and socio-cultural developments in Indonesia.</p>
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Dudko, I. G. "Modern Concepts in Russian Constitutional Law." Actual Problems of Russian Law 15, no. 3 (April 9, 2020): 35–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.17803/1994-1471.2020.112.3.035-046.
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The change of the scientific paradigm in Russian jurisprudence is accompanied by the affirmation of pluralism in a legal science. The paper has highlighted that the modern Russian constitutional theory seeks to express itself in the problems of ontological and axiological foundations, claiming to form an integral ”constitutional philosophy.”Constitutional axiology represents one of the most significant concepts of constitutionalism. Constitutional axiology is built as a field of scientific reflection (the nature, content, system of constitutional values). From these standpoints, the author provides for the assessment of law-enforcement carried out by the body of constitutional justice. The paper recognizes the high importance of research of constitutional law from the axiological point of view.The author has concluded that constitutional values as a reflection and expression of the “charter” of the life of the society (“protoconstitutional”) represent objectivated systemic totality functioning as the ultimate goal of constitutional development. Constitutional values represent concepts that must correspond to the social and spiritual environment of the society and the purpose of the State.The paper critically assesses the concept of a “living constitution” in its Russian interpretation as the constitutional and appraisal activity of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation with regard to “generation” of constitutional values. It is noted that the result of the work of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation expressed in its legal determinations, can not represent other (“generated” by it) constitutional values except those contained in the Constitution of the Russian Federation. “Transformation” of the content and legal attitudes and meanings of the Constitution, constitutional values without changing the text of the Constitution may lead to “distortions” of the essence of the Constitution and intent for the Constitution to be an act with the highest legal force.
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Nataliya, Batanova. "Functions of constitutional and legal responsibility: methodological problems of research." Yearly journal of scientific articles “Pravova derzhava”, no. 31 (2020): 210–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.33663/0869-2491-2020-31-210-221.
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The article considers the problems of the theory of functions of constitutional and legal responsibility. The characteristic features of the functions of constitutional and legal responsibility are analyzed. It substantiates the correlation and relationship between the functions of constitutional and legal responsibility and the functions of the Constitution, the functions of constitutional law, the functions of the state, etc. It is proved that the functions of constitutional and legal responsibility are characterized by legal features that reveal the essence and content of this category, in particular: 1) express the nature and content of this type of legal responsibility, its purpose in society and the state, as well as its place in the system of protection of the Constitution and constitutional order; 2) interrelated with the main functions of the state; 3) is an active way of acting of constitutional and legal responsibility and constitutional law as a whole (its principles, tasks, functions); 4) having an objective nature, on the one hand, is a form of purposeful willful behavior or activity of the subjects of constitutional liability and constitutional law in general (subjects of instances of constitutional responsibility and subjects of violators of constitutional law and order (delinquents)), and, on the other hand, the system of legal states that give rise to the constitutional rights and obligations of participants in constitutional-controversial and constitutional-conflict relations; 5) directly related to the system of constitutional law institutions (people, state, elections and referendums, bodies and officials of state power and local self-government, people and citizens, territorial hromadas, political parties, etc.); 6) are in synergy with the sources of constitutional law as a branch of law (above all the Constitution and its functions); 7) directly affect the constitutional and legal relations (first of all, constitutionally-controversial and constitutional-conflict) and their properties, subject-object composition, constitutional legal facts; 8)are organically related to the functions of constitutional law as a legal science and academic discipline and the like, etc. The definition of the concept of the functions of constitutional legal responsibility as the main normative and organizationally secured areas and types of its influence on the constitutional and legal relations with the purpose of protection of the Constitution, restoration of the constitutional order and proper fulfillment of tasks, functions and powers of the subjects of these relations, constitutional disputes between them and overcoming constitutional conflicts is formulated.
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Batanova, Nataliia. "Functions of constitutional and legal responsibility: problems of conceptualisations." Law Review of Kyiv University of Law, no. 1 (April 15, 2020): 100–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.36695/2219-5521.1.2020.18.
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The article considers the problems of the theory of functions of constitutional and legal responsibility. The characteristic features of the functions of constitutional and legal responsibility are analyzed. It substantiates the correlation and relationship between the functions of constitutional and legal responsibility and the functions of the Constitution, the functions of constitutional law, the functions of the state, etc.
It is proved that the functions of constitutional and legal responsibility are characterized by legal features that reveal the essence and content of this category, in particular: 1) express the nature and content of this type of legal responsibility, its purpose in society and the state, as well as its place in the system of protection of the Constitution and constitutional order; 2) interrelated with the main functions of the state; 3) is an active way of acting of constitutional and legal responsibility and constitutional law as a whole (its principles, tasks, functions); 4) having an objective nature, on the one hand, is a form of purposeful willful behavior or activity of the subjects of constitutional liability and constitutional law in general (subjects of instances of constitutional responsibility and subjects of violators of constitutional law and order (delinquents)), and, on the other hand, the system of legal states that give rise to the constitutional rights and obligations of participants in constitutional-controversial and constitutional-conflict relations; 5) directly related to the system of constitutional law institutions (people, state, elections and referendums, bodies and officials of state power and local self-government, people and citizens, territorial hromadas, political parties, etc.); 6) are in synergy with the sources of constitutional law as a branch of law (above all the Constitution and its functions); 7) directly affect the constitutional and legal relations (first of all, constitutionally-controversial and constitutional-conflict) and their properties, subject-object composition, constitutional legal facts; 8)are organically related to the functions of constitutional law as a legal science and academic discipline and the like, etc.
The definition of the concept of the functions of constitutional legal responsibility as the main normative and organizationally secured areas and types of its influence on the constitutional and legal relations with the purpose of protection of the Constitution, restoration of the constitutional order and proper fulfilment of tasks, functions and powers of the subjects of these relations, constitutional disputes between them and overcoming constitutional conflicts is formulated.
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Ahmad, Ahmad, Fence M. Wantu, and Dian Ekawaty Ismail. "Convergence of Constitutional Interpretation to the Test of Laws Through a Constitutional Dialogue Approach." Jurnal Konstitusi 20, no. 3 (September 1, 2023): 514–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.31078/jk3038.
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The Constitutional Court's presence yields positive impacts on constitutional law, yet isn't devoid of controversies, including Judge misconduct, transgression of 'nemo judex idoneus in propria causa' principle, and potential super body transformation. This paper aims to comprehend and analyze constitutional interpretation dominance in assessing laws against the 1945 Constitution through a constitutional dialogue approach. This normative writing employs legal, historical, and conceptual methods. Findings underscore: 1) Demonstrating respect for state institutions, notably the People's Consultative Assembly of Indonesia. 2) Establishing a more democratic system to test the 1945 Constitution's compatibility in the Constitutional Court. 3) Breaking the monopoly of Constitutional Court-centric constitutional interpretation. 4) Reviving 'nemo judex idoneus in propria causa' principle is pivotal due to extensive testing of Constitutional Court Law, addressing concerns about verdict impartiality.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Science of constitutional law"
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Stephens, Otis H. Jr, John M. II Scheb, and Colin Glennon. "American Constitutional Law, Volume I and II: Civil Rights and Liberties." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. http://amzn.com/1285736923.
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AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, Volumes I and II, combines cases, decisions, and authorial commentary to maximize your learning and understanding in this course. These comprehensive volumes cover the entire range of topics in constitutional law. Volume I examines the institutional aspects of constitutional law; Volume II deals with civil rights and liberties. Each of the chapters includes an introductory essay providing the legal, historical, political, and cultural context of Supreme Court jurisprudence in a particular area of constitutional interpretation. Each chapter also contains several boxed features (labeled "Case in Point" and "Sidebar") to provide additional perspective and context for the set of edited decisions from the United States Supreme Court cases that follow. In selecting, editing, and updating the materials, the authors emphasize recent trends in major areas of constitutional interpretation, as well as many landmark decisions, some of which retain importance as precedents while others illustrate the transient nature of constitutional interpretation. Because the book provides a good balance of decisions and authorial commentary, this text appeals to instructors of law as well as instructors of political science.https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1021/thumbnail.jpg
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Fuentes, Graciela. "Constitutional guarantees and normative limits to free communication." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26444.
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The purpose of this work is to analyze the principles of human rights theory underlying the protection of freedom of expression and the normative limits imposed on communication. The analysis involves those principles argued in American and Canadian judicial review.The curtailment of sexual expression is at the core of the discussion of the nature of human beings and their relationship with the state power. By analyzing the way in which governments ban sexual messages, one can infer with a great degree of accuracy how they will react toward other forms of expression. This connection can be established because arguments justifying restrictions on pornography may be extended to justify prohibitions on other form of communication.
Inasmuch as freedom of expression meets the basic need for communication inherent to autonomous and morally responsible individuals, any restriction on it must stem from the principle that rights-protection is the highest value as supreme law rather than from a majority assertion of what is good for the individual and society as a whole.
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Lazare, Jodi. "The use of social science evidence in constitutional adjudication: overcoming the challenges of the adversarial system." Thesis, McGill University, 2013. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=114143.
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This thesis examines the practice of judicial reliance on social science evidence in the context of Canadian Charter litigation. It undertakes in-depth readings of two recent trial decisions dealing with prostitution and polygamy, which required the judges to analyze vast amounts of social science empirical data. The argument is that the legal system's prioritization of persuasion, victory and the definitive resolution of disputes prevents it from maximizing the potential contributions that the social sciences can bring to the law and the legal search for truth. The doctrine of stare decisis may also require rethinking. This thesis also explores the idea that adversarial adjudication is ill suited to the balancing of a variety of unsettled issues often required by Charter challenges. This difficulty is compounded by the demonstrated weaknesses of legal education and its failure to equip future lawyers and judges with the non-legal skills required to deal with complex and conflicting empirical data. Last, the thesis looks at another major flaw in Anglo-American adjudication, the party selection of expert witnesses and the necessary bias which results, providing an overview of alternative procedural mechanisms. Overall, the difficulties in combining the law and the social sciences can only be remedied by moving towards a more inquisitorial method of resolving constitutional disputes.Ce mémoire étudie le traitement judiciaire de la preuve issue du domaine des sciences sociales dans le contexte des recours fondés sur la Charte canadienne de droits et libertés. Il entreprend une lecture en profondeur de deux décisions récentes de première instance, concernant la prostitution et la polygamie, dans lesquelles les juges ont eu à analyser de grandes quantités de données empiriques provenant du domaine des sciences sociales. Il soutient que la priorité que confère le système judiciaire à la persuasion, à la victoire et au règlement définitif des litiges l'empêche de bénéficier pleinement de la contribution que pourraient apporter les sciences sociales au droit et à la recherche juridique de la vérité. La doctrine de stare decisis pourrait, elle aussi, devoir être repensée. Ce mémoire explore de plus l'idée que le système accusatoire convienne mal à la mise en balance d'une multitude d'enjeux incertains, comme le requièrent souvent les contestations fondée sur la Charte. Cette difficulté est aggravée par les lacunes avérées de la formation juridique et par son incapacité à doter les futurs avocats et les futurs juges des compétences non juridiques nécessaires à la prise en compte de données empiriques complexes et contradictoires. Enfin, ce mémoire se penche sur un autre défaut majeur du système judiciaire anglo-américain, la sélection des témoins experts par les parties et le biais inévitable qui en résulte, et offre un bref portrait des mécanismes procéduraux alternatifs. De façon générale, les difficultés à combiner le droit et les sciences sociales ne peuvent être remédiées qu'en se dirigeant vers un mode plus inquisitoire de résolution des litiges constitutionnels.
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ButleRitchie, David T. "Shifting foundations and historical contingencies : a critique of modern constitutionalism /." view abstract or download file of text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3147815.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2004.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves - ). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Williams, Matthew. "The language of legislation and the politicisation of British judges." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:31b03113-216f-4291-8635-aa4aa7e287f0.
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Over the course of the 20th and 21st Centuries the judiciary have increasingly made decisions that have affected the substantive content and the procedural implementation of public policy. The aim of this thesis is to provide an explanation for this political behaviour in judges by introducing the Legislative Politicisation of the Judiciary Theory to the debate. The theory proposes that the key independent causal variable is the language of Parliamentary legislation. The argument is that as legislation has been increasingly used to delegate power from Parliament to its various agents, the language used has become more indeterminate in order to enable discretion. Such indeterminacy creates an institutional problem where the orders of the sovereign Parliament are not clear, and to resolve this uncertainty in the Rule of Law the judges must intervene. The political behaviour of judges is therefore stimulated by a change in the legislative supply-side rather than a change in the behavioural demand-side, and the judges are acting as professional technocrats charged with ensuring the efficacious implementation of Parliamentary legislation. A new discourse analysis methodology has been created for this thesis that provides evidence of change in the language of legislation between 1920 and 2010. A total of 8,328 sections of primary and secondary legislation have been hand-coded, with results showing that 3% of sections in 1920 (21 sections in real terms) were “Henry VIIIth clauses”, where power to make new law was delegated by Parliament; by 2010 this had increased to 16% (400 sections in real terms).
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Gilles, Isabelle. "Lessons from India's constitutional culture: what Canada can learn." Thesis, McGill University, 2013. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=114609.
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This thesis aims at initiating dialogue between Canadian and Indian constitutional cultures. Canadian constitutional law is arguably characterized by ideologies of liberalism and legal positivism. Because human rights norms are expected to incorporate a vision of social justice into the law, ideologies and legal philosophies are crucial to assess the potential and the limitations of human rights protections. The legal cultures in Canada and India have similar roots, and yet the systems have evolved differently. Among other factors, judicial activism and the quest for social justice of judges at the Supreme Court of India were significant in the evolution of Indian constitutional culture. From a Canadian perspective, it is interesting to study this culture as it offers new avenues in the human rights field and therefore challenges the universal value of human rights norms as interpreted and applied in Canada. This thesis argues that, on the intersection of human rights and social issues like poverty and social classes, important lessons can be drawn from the way the Supreme Court of India has based its human rights interpretation on contextual analyses of Indian social reality. The judges engaged in judicial activism sought to move beyond the traditional ideologies found in the common law, and their jurisprudence is helpful in grasping the limitations these ideologies can put on human rights interpretation.Ce mémoire vise à créer un dialogue entre les cultures constitutionnelles canadiennes et indiennes. Certaines caractéristiques de la culture constitutionnelle canadienne sont empreintes de libéralisme idéologique ainsi que de positivisme juridique. Les normes des droits de la personne représentant pour beaucoup une manière de permettre à une vision de justice sociale de pénétrer le domaine du droit, les idéologies ainsi que les philosophies juridiques sont des considérations cruciales lors de l'évaluation du potentiel ainsi que limites des droits de la personne. Les cultures juridiques de l'Inde et du Canada ont de communes racines, mais les systèmes ont évolué de façon très différente. L'activisme judiciaire ainsi que la quête pour une justice sociale dont ont fait preuve les juges de la Cour Suprême de l'Inde ont participé significativement à l'évolution de la culture constitutionnelle indienne. D'un point de vue canadien, il est intéressant d'étudier cette culture en ce qu'elle offre de nouvelles pistes dans le domaine des droits humains, et ce faisant elle remet en question la valeur universelle des droits de la personnes tels qu'interprétés et appliqués au Canada. Ce mémoire vise à démontrer qu'en ce qui a trait à l'intersection de l'interprétation des droits de la personne et de problèmes sociaux tels que la pauvreté et les classes sociales, d'importantes leçons peuvent être retenues de l'étude de la jurisprudence indienne, et plus particulièrement de l'interprétation des droits basée sur une analyse contextuelle de la réalité sociale en Inde. Les juges faisant preuve d'activisme judiciaire ont cherché à dépasser les idéologies traditionnelles encastrées dans la common law, et leurs jugements sont utiles pour saisir les limites que ces idéologies imposent à l'interprétation des droits de la personne.
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Lainé, Julien. "Empirisme et conceptualisme en droit constitutionnel." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Lille 2, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011LIL20014.
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Connu en droit administratif, le thème de l’empirisme et du conceptualisme interroge la possibilité pour la doctrine, d’induire de la jurisprudence des catégories plus générales et abstraites, facilitant la connaissance d’une discipline essentiellement jurisprudentielle. L’idée de confronter cette problématique au droit constitutionnel est d’abord liée aux mutations de la discipline depuis la création du Conseil constitutionnel en 1958. Précisément, le développement de la jurisprudence constitutionnelle pouvait laisser présumer une facette empirique en droit constitutionnel, susceptible d’interroger la nécessité pour la doctrine, de procéder a posteriori à une mise en ordre synthétique des décisions du Conseil constitutionnel. En réalité, l’alternance entre l’empirisme et le conceptualisme en droit constitutionnel dépasse le seul rapport de la doctrine et la jurisprudence. La présente étude s’efforce alors de saisir dans tous les stades de la discipline, et quelles que soient les sources, le travail de systématisation du droit. Néanmoins, il ne s’agit pas de se contenter de suivre, conformément à une démarche chronologique, l’évolution de la pensée en droit constitutionnel, mais de procéder à l’identification de périodes. Le conceptualisme ancien, hérité des premiers manuels de droit constitutionnel à la fin du XIXe siècle, a permis d’élaborer les grands principes du droit constitutionnel français. Partant, l’évolution des méthodes doctrinales tout au long du XXe et au début du XXIe siècle, en lien avec l’évolution du droit lui-même, soumet ces principes à des démarches plus empiriques. Il s’agit d’abord, d’un premier courant doctrinal apparu à la suite de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, qualifié dans le cadre de la présente étude de « empirisme politique », puis, aux alentours des années 1970, d’un second courant, défendant un « empirisme juridique ». Enfin et cette dernière période demeure en cours, le développement de la jurisprudence du Conseil constitutionnel, caractérisée par son empirisme, ouvre la voie à un « empirisme jurisprudentiel », dont les enjeux sont plus largement abordés dans la présente étudeThe issue of empiricism and conceptualism has been studied in administrative law. It refers to the possibility for academics to infer general and abstract categories from case law. Such reasoning by induction aims to facilitate the knowledge of administrative law, which essentially consists of case law. Studying this issue in constitutional law is justified by the changes which have occurred in the discipline since the birth of the Conseil Constitutionnel in 1958. Specifically, the development of constitutional case law has led to the assumption that constitutional law has a more empirical dimension and that new relations are being established between academics and judges. In practice, the alternation between empiricism and conceptualism in constitutional law goes beyond the relation between legal scholars and case law. Thus, this study attempts to capture the systematization of law in all stages of the discipline and whatever the sources. The analysis is not only following the changes in the mode of thinking concerning constitutional law by respecting a chronological sequence, it also aims at identifying periods. The conceptualism of the past, inherited from the first treatises on constitutional law at the end of the nineteenth century, has developed the main principles of French constitutional law. Since then, the evolution of doctrinal methods, throughout the twentieth and the early twenty-first century, in conjunction with the development of law itself, subjects these principles to more empirical approaches, bringing them closer to the reality of constitutional law. More precisely, three empirical periods can be identified. The first period emerged after World War II and is described as “political empiricism” in this study. The second time appeared in the 1970’s and advocates a “legal empiricism”. Finally, the development of the jurisprudence of the Conseil constitutionnel opens the way for “case law empiricism”, widely discussed in this analysis
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Lainé, Julien. "Empirisme et conceptualisme en droit constitutionnel." Thesis, Lille 2, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011LIL20014/document.
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Connu en droit administratif, le thème de l’empirisme et du conceptualisme interroge la possibilité pour la doctrine, d’induire de la jurisprudence des catégories plus générales et abstraites, facilitant la connaissance d’une discipline essentiellement jurisprudentielle. L’idée de confronter cette problématique au droit constitutionnel est d’abord liée aux mutations de la discipline depuis la création du Conseil constitutionnel en 1958. Précisément, le développement de la jurisprudence constitutionnelle pouvait laisser présumer une facette empirique en droit constitutionnel, susceptible d’interroger la nécessité pour la doctrine, de procéder a posteriori à une mise en ordre synthétique des décisions du Conseil constitutionnel. En réalité, l’alternance entre l’empirisme et le conceptualisme en droit constitutionnel dépasse le seul rapport de la doctrine et la jurisprudence. La présente étude s’efforce alors de saisir dans tous les stades de la discipline, et quelles que soient les sources, le travail de systématisation du droit. Néanmoins, il ne s’agit pas de se contenter de suivre, conformément à une démarche chronologique, l’évolution de la pensée en droit constitutionnel, mais de procéder à l’identification de périodes. Le conceptualisme ancien, hérité des premiers manuels de droit constitutionnel à la fin du XIXe siècle, a permis d’élaborer les grands principes du droit constitutionnel français. Partant, l’évolution des méthodes doctrinales tout au long du XXe et au début du XXIe siècle, en lien avec l’évolution du droit lui-même, soumet ces principes à des démarches plus empiriques. Il s’agit d’abord, d’un premier courant doctrinal apparu à la suite de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, qualifié dans le cadre de la présente étude de « empirisme politique », puis, aux alentours des années 1970, d’un second courant, défendant un « empirisme juridique ». Enfin et cette dernière période demeure en cours, le développement de la jurisprudence du Conseil constitutionnel, caractérisée par son empirisme, ouvre la voie à un « empirisme jurisprudentiel », dont les enjeux sont plus largement abordés dans la présente étudeThe issue of empiricism and conceptualism has been studied in administrative law. It refers to the possibility for academics to infer general and abstract categories from case law. Such reasoning by induction aims to facilitate the knowledge of administrative law, which essentially consists of case law. Studying this issue in constitutional law is justified by the changes which have occurred in the discipline since the birth of the Conseil Constitutionnel in 1958. Specifically, the development of constitutional case law has led to the assumption that constitutional law has a more empirical dimension and that new relations are being established between academics and judges. In practice, the alternation between empiricism and conceptualism in constitutional law goes beyond the relation between legal scholars and case law. Thus, this study attempts to capture the systematization of law in all stages of the discipline and whatever the sources. The analysis is not only following the changes in the mode of thinking concerning constitutional law by respecting a chronological sequence, it also aims at identifying periods.The conceptualism of the past, inherited from the first treatises on constitutional law at the end of the nineteenth century, has developed the main principles of French constitutional law. Since then, the evolution of doctrinal methods, throughout the twentieth and the early twenty-first century, in conjunction with the development of law itself, subjects these principles to more empirical approaches, bringing them closer to the reality of constitutional law. More precisely, three empirical periods can be identified. The first period emerged after Word War II and is described as “political empiricism” in this study. The second time appeared in the 1970’s and advocates a “legal empiricism”. Finally, the development of the jurisprudence of the Conseil constitutionnel opens the way for “case law empiricism”, widely discussed in this analysis
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Walters, Mark D. "The continuity of Aboriginal customs and government under British imperial constitutional law as applied in colonial Canada, 1760-1860." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1995. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b0c0d802-5a51-44d8-a916-aa4ce08de680.
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This thesis examines the British legal status of aboriginal customary laws and governments in colonial Canada between 1760 and 1860, with a view to contributing to the debate about their modern legal status under the Canadian constitution. By "colonial Canada" is meant the British colonies of Quebec (1763-1791), Upper and Lower Canada (1791-1841) and Canada (1841-1867). The central argument of the thesis is that there existed in colonial Canada two distinct systems of municipal law one system for settlers and one system (or set of systems) for natives both deriving legitimacy from an over-arching British imperial constitution. The settler system was established by imperial statute, while native systems were recognized by non-statutory principles of imperial law, or "imperial common law". It is argued that the common-law principle of continuityâaccording to which British courts presumed that the laws of peoples subjected to British sovereignty remained in force at common law until abrogated by prerogative or Parliamentary legislation formed the doctrinal foundation of aboriginal rights to customary law and government in colonial Canada. The objective of Part One of the thesis is to construct a theory of imperial law applicable to the unique constitutional history of colonial Canada. To this end, the principle of continuity is analysed both as it was developed in relation to England's early imperial experiences and as it was manifested in statutes and judicial opinions relating to native nations in British North American colonies of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Part Two of the thesis applies the general principles of imperial law developed in Part One to Canadian constitutional history. The various municipal legal regimes established under imperial statute for settlers are examined in light of the fact that the imperial ministry, which retained direct control over Indian policy in Canada until 1860, recognized the continuity of native customary law and government in both unceded and reserved Indian lands. It will be argued that this imperial recognition confirmed the common-law continuity of native law and government.
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Muhammad, Rashwan Eman <1990>. "Transitional Justice as a Post-Revolution Constitutional Arrangement: A Law and Economics Approach." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2022. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/10450/1/Frontespizio%20%2B%20Manuscript.pdf.
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This dissertation addresses the timely questions of transitional justice (TJ) in the
aftermath of revolutions against autocratic regimes, dealing with TJ as a constitutional
arrangement through the lenses of constitutional economics.
After an introductory chapter, chapter 2 deals with why nations rarely adopt meaningful TJ
processes in the first place, it then explains the limitations of civil society as the arbiter,
facilitator, and enforcer of TJ policies.
Chapter 3 tackles the question of which mechanisms to choose? It uses the UN Guidelines on
TJ that sets five principal TJ mechanisms. It provides a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) of each
mechanism and suggests policy implications accordingly.
The CBA inspires chapter 4 analysis, suggesting a tradeoff between restrictive fair trial
standards under constitutional laws and justice considerations. The tradeoff explains the
suggested efficiency of the balanced TJ approaches that combine trials and amnesties.
This approach is used for the case study analysis of TJ in Tunisia after the 2011 revolution in
chapter 5. The chapter presents the first index of TJ mechanisms in Tunisia through novel data
collected by the author. It shows an ultimate TJ design that ended with a modest harvest in the
application. The lack of cooperation between the Tunisian parties, added to the absence of
transparency in many TJ measures, threatens any possible positive outcomes of the partial TJ
process. It is also alarming regarding constitutional compliance in a system that – until recently
- was considered the only democracy in the Arab region. Chapter 6 is a summary
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1948-, Lippman Matthew Ross, ed. Constitutional law: A political science casebook. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985.
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Burgess, John William. Political science and comparative constitutional law. Buffalo, N.Y: W.S. Hein, 2000.
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1955-, Scheb John M., ed. American constitutional law. 3rd ed. Belmont, CA: Thomson/West, 2003.
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1955-, Scheb John M., ed. American constitutional law. Minneapolis/St. Paul: West Pub. Co., 1993.
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Stephens, Otis H. American constitutional law. 4th ed. Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2008.
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1955-, Scheb John M., ed. American constitutional law. 2nd ed. Belmont, CA: West/Wadsworth, 1999.
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1955-, Scheb John M., ed. American constitutional law. 4th ed. Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2008.
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Schmitt, Carl. Constitutional theory. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008.
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Carl, Schmitt. Constitutional theory. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008.
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Carl, Schmitt. Constitutional theory. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008.
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Tomasi, Marta. "Populism, Science and the Italian Democracy." In Italian Populism and Constitutional Law, 223–40. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37401-3_11.
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Ruffert, Matthias, and Sebastian Steinecke. "C. Constitutional Basis: The Freedom of Science." In The Global Administrative Law of Science, 29–53. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21359-5_4.
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Saarenpää, Ahti. "Information and Law in the Constitutional State." In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 443–52. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30078-6_76.
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Ellian, Afshin. "L’amour de la démocratie versus the Dictatorship of the Constitutional State (Rechtsstaat). The Defense in Democracy Itself." In Militant Democracy – Political Science, Law and Philosophy, 153–88. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97004-2_8.
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Avgerinopoulou, Dionysia-Theodora. "Additional Theoretical Legal Bases for the Integration of Science in International Environmental Law Without Any Constitutional or Procedural Amendment." In Science-Based Lawmaking, 269–80. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21417-3_8.
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Martín, Adán Nieto. "A Necessary Triangle: The Science of Legislation, the Constitutional Control of Criminal Laws and Experimental Legislation." In Towards a Rational Legislative Evaluation in Criminal Law, 351–84. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32895-9_14.
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Heringa, Aalt Willem. "Constitutional Law." In Introduction to Law, 165–99. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57252-9_8.
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Wellman, Carl. "Constitutional Law." In Constitutional Rights -What They Are and What They Ought to Be, 1–17. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31526-3_1.
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Kim, Jongcheol. "Constitutional Law." In Introduction to Korean Law, 31–84. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31689-0_2.
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Heringa, Aalt Willem. "Constitutional Law." In Introduction to Law, 157–88. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06910-4_8.
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Balodis, Ringolds. "Skatījums uz Satversmes konstitucionāliem algoritmiem: to loģika, lietderīgums un pamatotība." In The 8th International Scientific Conference of the Faculty of Law of the University of Latvia. University of Latvia Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.22364/iscflul.8.1.07.
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The use of numbers in constitutions is quite widespread and, in some cases, in a constitution they may form some constitutional “formulas”, which are incorporated into the constitution with a special task, and the application of which has corresponding legal consequences. The current study will analyse a rather specific constitutional element – constitutional algorithms, which can be considered as an open legal concept, assessing their logic, usefulness and validity. The constitutional algorithms resemble an instruction, – similarly to mathematics or computer science that cannot be ignored or overlooked – they make it possible to model a specific result while giving the participants of the constitutional process the opportunity to predict the consequences of their actions. Some of the constitutional algorithms (quorums) are oriented towards obtaining a majority, whereas there are also those that determine the exclusive rights of an opposition of parliament, ensure the election procedure, etc. The algorithms of the Latvian Satversme (Constitution) have been taken over from the constitutionalism process and also developed at the Satversmes sapulce (Constitutional Assembly), or adjusted in accordance with the procedure for amending the Satversme with the will of the Saeima (the Parliament of Latvia) as the constitutional legislator. All algorithms of the Constitution and their formulas must be considered as political compromises. The issue of the algorithms of the Satversme is important not only from the aspect of the science of constitutional law, but also from the aspect of the legitimacy of power and constitutional stability. Reasonable algorithms and quorums strengthen the functioning of the parliamentary democracy, while their disproportionality only protects the comfort of the political elite and over time destroys the foundations of the country by stifling any valuable change.
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Stepanova, Albina. "THE CONSTITUTIONAL PURPOSES, VALUES AND CONCERNS OF MODERN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW OF RUSSIA." In 4th International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference on Social Sciences and Arts SGEM2017. Stef92 Technology, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5593/sgemsocial2017/12/s02.076.
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Едреев, Тамерлан Шайх-Магомедович. "THE INFLUENCE OF JUDICIAL PRACTICE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW OF RUSSIA." In Научные исследования в современном мире. Теория и практика: сборник избранных статей Всероссийской (национальной) научно-практической конференции (Санкт-Петербург, Май 2021). Crossref, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.37539/nitp316.2021.78.92.012.
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В статье анализируются вопросы влияние судебной практики в области конституционного права, а также практика Конституционного Суда. В заключение высказывается авторская позиция о развитии науки конституционного права. The article analyzes the impact of judicial practice in the field of constitutional law, as well as the practice of the Constitutional Court. In conclusion, the author's position on the development of the science of constitutional law is expressed.
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Brenncke, Martin. "THE LIMITS OF JUDICIAL POWER IN ENGLAND AND GERMANY: A COMPARATIVE METHODOLOGICAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVE." In 2nd Law & Political Science Conference, Prague. International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.20472/lpc.2018.002.002.
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Lutfi, Mustofa. "Portrait of Constitutional Question Mechanisms in Judicial Review Practices in the Constitutional Court from the Perspective of Prophetic Law Paradigm." In International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Social Science (ICONETOS 2020). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210421.074.
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Zorile, D. V. "Historical and legal science in the context of social disciplines." In General question of world science. L-Journal, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18411/gq-30-11-2020-05.
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As a special problem the division of subjects and methodology of history of law with different branches of law is arisen - such as the constitutional, financial law, and also with economic science. The author investigates their evolution within interference with the history of law, the possibility to ensure the autonomy of the scientific branches by formulation of aims and tasks of investigations.
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Akbar, Salsabila, Retno Saraswati, and Fifiana Wisnaeni. "Final Properties Factices and Binding Constitutional Court Decisions by Adding Judicial Order Law Instruments in Testing the Law of the Basic Law." In 1st International Conference on Science and Technology in Administration and Management Information, ICSTIAMI 2019, 17-18 July 2019, Jakarta, Indonesia. EAI, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.17-7-2019.2303373.
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Aswitok, Dimas Dyonata, Dimas Aswitok, and Yudi Harimurti. "The Existence Of Task Force Clean Sweep Of Illegal In The Constitutional Law Perspective." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Science 2019 (ICSS 2019). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/icss-19.2019.138.
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Nemchenko, Anna. "Constitutional law: the main approaches to the content of the concept and stages of development." In International Research Conference on Technology, Science, Engineering & Management. Seattle: Professional science, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.54092/9781794752917_48.
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Pamungkas, Ery. "Constitutional Court and Legal Certainty Covid-19 Pandemic Status." In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Law, Social Science, Economics, and Education, ICLSSEE 2022, 16 April 2022, Semarang, Indonesia. EAI, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.16-4-2022.2319712.
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Mazurkiewicz, Marek. ECMI Minorities Blog. German minority as hostage and victim of populist politics in Poland. European Centre for Minority Issues, February 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.53779/fhta5489.
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On 4 February 2022, the Polish Journal of Laws published a new ordinance of the Minister of Education and Science, implementing cuts in the funding of education of German as a minority language. Consequently, the hourly length of such lessons will be significantly reduced. This regulation applies exclusively to the German minority, and the official motive for introducing discriminatory measures is to improve the situation of Polish diaspora in Germany. This is the first time after 1989 when the Polish state authorities introduce a law limiting the rights of Poland’s citizens belonging to a national minority (in this situation children), as a retaliation for the alleged situation of a kin-community elsewhere. Importantly, the adopted regulations are not only discriminatory towards one of the minorities; their implementation may in fact contribute to the dysfunctionality of the entire minority education system in Poland. This is also an obvious violation of the constitutional principle of equality before the law, the right of minorities to ‘maintain and develop their own language’, international standards of minority rights protection, as well as a threat to the very functioning of human rights protection mechanisms in the country.
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Iaryczower, Matias, Pablo Spiller, and Mariano Tommasi. Judicial Lobbying: The Politics of Labor Law Constitutional Interpretation. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w11317.
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Cachalia, Firoz, and Jonathan Klaaren. Digitalisation, the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ and the Constitutional Law of Privacy in South Africa: Towards a public law perspective on constitutional privacy in the era of digitalisation. Digital Pathways at Oxford, July 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.35489/bsg-dp-wp_2021/04.
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In this working paper, our focus is on the constitutional debates and case law regarding the right to privacy, adopting a method that is largely theoretical. In an accompanying separate working paper, A South African Public Law Perspective on Digitalisation in the Health Sector, we employ the analysis developed here and focus on the specific case of digital technologies in the health sector. The topic and task of these papers lie at the confluence of many areas of contemporary society. To demonstrate and apply the argument of this paper, it would be possible and valuable to extend its analysis into any of numerous spheres of social life, from energy to education to policing to child care. In our accompanying separate paper, we focus on only one policy domain – the health sector. Our aim is to demonstrate our argument about the significance of a public law perspective on the constitutional right to privacy in the age of digitalisation, and attend to several issues raised by digitalisation’s impact in the health sector. For the most part, we focus on technologies that have health benefits and privacy costs, but we also recognise that certain technologies have health costs and privacy benefits. We also briefly outline the recent establishment (and subsequent events) in South Africa of a contact tracing database responding to the COVID-19 pandemic – the COVID-19 Tracing Database – a development at the interface of the law enforcement and health sectors. Our main point in this accompanying paper is to demonstrate the value that a constitutional right to privacy can bring to the regulation of digital technologies in a variety of legal frameworks and technological settings – from public to private, and from the law of the constitution to the ‘law’ of computer coding.
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Cachalia, Firoz, and Jonathan Klaaren. A South African Public Law Perspective on Digitalisation in the Health Sector. Digital Pathways at Oxford, July 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.35489/bsg-dp-wp_2021/05.
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We explored some of the questions posed by digitalisation in an accompanying working paper focused on constitutional theory: Digitalisation, the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ and the Constitutional Law of Privacy in South Africa. In that paper, we asked what legal resources are available in the South African legal system to respond to the risk and benefits posed by digitalisation. We argued that this question would be best answered by developing what we have termed a 'South African public law perspective'. In our view, while any particular legal system may often lag behind, the law constitutes an adaptive resource that can and should respond to disruptive technological change by re-examining existing concepts and creating new, more adequate conceptions. Our public law perspective reframes privacy law as both a private and a public good essential to the functioning of a constitutional democracy in the era of digitalisation. In this working paper, we take the analysis one practical step further: we use our public law perspective on digitalisation in the South African health sector. We do so because this sector is significant in its own right – public health is necessary for a healthy society – and also to further explore how and to what extent the South African constitutional framework provides resources at least roughly adequate for the challenges posed by the current 'digitalisation plus' era. The theoretical perspective we have developed is certainly relevant to digitalisation’s impact in the health sector. The social, economic and political progress that took place in the 20th century was strongly correlated with technological change of the first three industrial revolutions. The technological innovations associated with what many are terming ‘the fourth industrial revolution’ are also of undoubted utility in the form of new possibilities for enhanced productivity, business formation and wealth creation, as well as the enhanced efficacy of public action to address basic needs such as education and public health.
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Duben, Andrey Kirillovich. THE RIGHT OF ACCESS TO INFORMATION AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION. DOI СODE, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.18411/2454-0665.2022.7.1.3573.
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Smeekens, Daan, and Keil Soeren. The Iraqi Oil and Gas Dispute between Baghdad and Erbil. Fribourg (Switzerland): IFF, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.51363/unifr.diff.2022.31.
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In a judgment of 15 February 2022, the Federal Supreme Court of Iraq decided to repeal the 2007 Oil and Gas Law of the Kurdistan Regional Government on constitutional grounds. The judgment can be regarded as politicized, and has enormous implications for the autonomy of the Kurdish Region and the federal discourse in Iraq. This commentary assesses the soundness of the Federal Supreme Court’s judgment through critically evaluating the arguments against the Iraqi Constitution. It comes to conclude that the judgment has been a misinterpretation of the constitutional provisions that prescribe shared powers between the central and regional governments over oil and gas. These issues are an indirect consequence of the ambiguity and non-implementation of many constitutional provisions. Relatedly, this commentary provides some recommendations for a future cooperation between Erbil and Baghdad.
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Gledhill, Igle, Richard Goldstone, Sanya Samtani, Keyan Tomaselli, and Klaus Beiter. Copyright Amendment Bill Workshop Proceedings Report. Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/assaf.2022/0078.
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The genesis of the Copyright Amendment Bill was in 2009, when the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) initiated various studies and impact assessments. In July 2015, the DTI published a Draft Copyright Amendment Bill for public comment. The final 2017 version of the Bill was approved by Parliament in 2019 and it was sent to President Cyril Ramaphosa for action in terms of Section 79(1) of the Constitution. Section 79(1) states that “The President must either assent to and sign a Bill passed in terms of this Chapter or, if the President has reservations about the constitutionality of the Bill, refer it back to the National Assembly for reconsideration”. The President referred the Bill back to Parliament for review on 16 June 2020, on constitutionality issues. In response to the President’s reservations, Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry has invited stakeholders and other interested parties to submit written submissions on certain sections of the Bill by no later than 9 July 2021. The current copyright law is outdated and does not address the digital environment. The Academy of Science of South Africa seeks to take into account the status of the copyright legislation and the anticipated effects of the amendment Bill on different issues and thereafter, provide recommendations to the President.
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Gonçalves, Maria Eduarda, and Inês Gameiro. Hard Law, Soft Law and Self-regulation: Seeking Better Governance for Science and Technology in the EU. DINÂMIA'CET-IUL, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.7749/dinamiacet-iul.wp.2011.18.
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McCarty, Nicholas. The Laws of Science. New Science, September 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.56416/721mpl.
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Krishnaswamy, Sudhir, Jayna Kothari, Satya Prasoon, and Ashwini Tallur. Rights in Review: The Supreme Court in 2016. Centre for Law and Policy Research, April 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.54999/pcqk8153.
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“Rights in Review″ is an annual review of Indian Supreme Court decisions on constitutional fundamental rights cases in the year past. In 2016 we surveyed all reported decisions of the Supreme Court adjudicating fundamental rights challenges from January 2016 to December, 2016. Once again we selected cases which extend or modify existing legal doctrine, apply the law to new factual circumstances or otherwise have a significant impact on public policy or public affairs.