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The Strasbourg Court Meets Abusive Constitutionalism: Baka v. Hungary and the Rule of Law

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14220%2F18%3A00102635" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14220/18:00102635 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs40803-017-0065-y.pdf" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs40803-017-0065-y.pdf</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40803-017-0065-y" target="_blank" >10.1007/s40803-017-0065-y</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    The Strasbourg Court Meets Abusive Constitutionalism: Baka v. Hungary and the Rule of Law

  • Original language description

    The rise of abusive constitutionalism in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) has hit the domestic judiciaries particularly hard. Viktor Orbán expanded the size of the Constitutional Court and then packed it, made sure that he can install a new president of the Constitutional Court, ousted the Supreme Court president through a constitutional amendment, disempowered the existing judicial council and created the new institution with power over ordinary judicial appointments. Jaroslav Kaczyński followed the same playbook in Poland. While most scholars have focused primarily on effects of abusive constitutionalism upon the constitutional courts, we argue that the keys to the long-term control of the judiciary are presidents of ordinary courts and judicial councils . The dismissal of the Hungarian Supreme Court President is a perfect example of this logic—by this move Orbán got rid of the most important court president in the country, the head of the Hungarian judicial council and his most vocal critic. Yet, András Baka lodged an application to the ECtHR and won. This article analyses the Grand Chamber judgment in Baka v. Hungary, its implication for the rule of law, and the limits of what the ECtHR can achieve against abusive constitutionalism. It concludes that the Grand Chamber failed on all key fronts. It overlooked the main structural problem behind Mr. Baka’s dismissal (the broad powers of court presidents in CEE), it has blurred the Convention’s understanding of the concept of the rule of law, and it failed in delivering a persuasive judgment firmly based on the existing ECtHR’s case law.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    50501 - Law

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK

Others

  • Publication year

    2018

  • Confidentiality

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

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Hague Journal on the Rule of Law

  • ISSN

    1876-4045

  • e-ISSN

    1876-4053

  • Volume of the periodical

    10

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    1

  • Country of publishing house

    NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

  • Number of pages

    28

  • Pages from-to

    83-110

  • UT code for WoS article

    000432476500006

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85045312357