From Minimalism to the Substantive Core and Back: The Slovak Constitutional Court and (the Lack of) Constitutional Identity

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63692" target="_blank" >https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63692</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781509960156" target="_blank" >10.5040/9781509960156</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

From Minimalism to the Substantive Core and Back: The Slovak Constitutional Court and (the Lack of) Constitutional Identity

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The chapter on the SCC hence demonstrates that constitutional courts may develop their reading of constitutional identity in a reactive way. The lack of textual hooks in the text of the Slovak Constitution, combined with experience of political unrest, tradition of judicial minimalism, and dominance of separation of powers disputes in the SCC’s case law, eventually led the court to ground its approach to constitutional identity in the substantive core doctrine. This doctrine represents a reading of constitutional identity which aims at integrating democracy, human rights and the rule of law. We argue that locking in the principle of judicial independence became important both for the SCC’s self-preservation and for its understanding of the threats to the Slovak judiciary in general. Therefore, the government’s attempt to interfere in judicial independence via the security screening of judges spurred the court to quash several provisions of the constitutional act. However, in doing so the SCC also created a space for a pushback from the populist government, which demanded more accountability for the ‘non-democratic’ judiciary by curtailing the court’s formal powers in an accelerated procedure. This is important for the broader literature examining legislative reactions to judicialisation of politics.

Název v anglickém jazyce

From Minimalism to the Substantive Core and Back: The Slovak Constitutional Court and (the Lack of) Constitutional Identity

Popis výsledku anglicky

The chapter on the SCC hence demonstrates that constitutional courts may develop their reading of constitutional identity in a reactive way. The lack of textual hooks in the text of the Slovak Constitution, combined with experience of political unrest, tradition of judicial minimalism, and dominance of separation of powers disputes in the SCC’s case law, eventually led the court to ground its approach to constitutional identity in the substantive core doctrine. This doctrine represents a reading of constitutional identity which aims at integrating democracy, human rights and the rule of law. We argue that locking in the principle of judicial independence became important both for the SCC’s self-preservation and for its understanding of the threats to the Slovak judiciary in general. Therefore, the government’s attempt to interfere in judicial independence via the security screening of judges spurred the court to quash several provisions of the constitutional act. However, in doing so the SCC also created a space for a pushback from the populist government, which demanded more accountability for the ‘non-democratic’ judiciary by curtailing the court’s formal powers in an accelerated procedure. This is important for the broader literature examining legislative reactions to judicialisation of politics.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50501 - Law

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název knihy nebo sborníku

The Jurisprudence of Particularism National Identity Claims in Central Europe

ISBN

9781509960125

Počet stran výsledku

24

Strana od-do

81-104

Počet stran knihy

256

Název nakladatele

Hart Publishing

Místo vydání

Neuveden

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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