A Holistic View of the Czech Constitutional Court Approach to the ECtHR’s Case Law

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

A Holistic View of the Czech Constitutional Court Approach to the ECtHR’s Case Law

Original language description

This article analyses the Czech Constitutional Court's treatment of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) case-law. After the introductory part, it explains the normative position of European Convention of Human Rights and ECtHR case law in the Czech constitutional order. The following empirical part of the text contains some basic data concerning the frequency of use of ECtHR decisions in the judgments of the Czech Constitutional Court. It shows that the use of ECtHR case law by the Czech Constitutional Court varies significantly both in time and amongst individual Justices. Besides providing the reader with some descriptive statistics, it identifies the most relevant factors that might be responsible for the variability and formulates corresponding hypotheses. Generally speaking, the research shows that both resources and preferences of individual Justices influence the number and nature of references to the ECtHR case law. While assessing the approaches of individual Justices, the article also aims to answer an important underlying question: Is the quotation of ECtHR case-law a sign of acceptance of international law or does it serve as a fig leave to boost the national decision’s legitimacy? In this regard, the text concludes that, depending on preferences of individual Justices, references to ECtHR case law can be made for a number of reasons and that “simple numbers” are not a reliable sign of ECtHR case law substantive impact.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50501 - Law

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA16-09415S" target="_blank" >GA16-09415S: Beyond Compliance – Domestic Implementation of International Human Rights Case Law</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Heidelberg Journal of International Law : Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht

ISSN

0044-2348

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Volume of the periodical

77

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

30

Pages from-to

715-744

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