NEW PHENOMENA IN THE CONSTITUTIONALITY REVIEW OF LAWS (A CONTRIBUTION TO THE DISCUSSION ON THE LEGITIMACY OF CONSTITUTIONAL COURTS) (Nowe zjawiska w kontroli konstytucyjnosci ustaw (przyczynek do dyskusji nad legitymizacja sadownictwa konstytucyjnego

• Authors: Garlicki Leszek
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The debate on the legitimacy of constitutional courts takes place more than two centuries and the positions of the supporters and opponents of constitutional protection of the constitution are widely known. That debate, however, is held in the changing political and constitutional contexts. This article deals with the question whether the evolution taking place in constitutional judiciary in the recent quarter of a century allows us to identify new trends converting the above-mentioned contexts. From this point of view, three phenomena seem to deserve more attention: - fast expansion of constitutional judiciary in the so-called new democracies in our region has provided new arguments for the need of a powerful and independent constitutional court; - the appearance of a 'weak-form' of constitutionality review in some Anglo-Saxon systems proved that it was possible to create an intermediate model that offers compromise between the traditional solutions; - development of jurisprudence of extra-national European courts has resulted in the appearance of a new form of review of laws by national courts, and thereby contributed to the departure from traditional understanding of sovereignty of parliament and inviolability of laws.

Keywords

EN

CONSTITUTIONAL COURT; CONSTITUTIONAL LAW; JUDICAL ACTIVISM

Discipline

• LAW_&_ADMINISTRATION: LAW & ADMINISTRATION

• Publisher: Kancelaria Sejmu / Chancellery of the Sejm
• Journal: Przegląd Sejmowy
• Year: 2009
• Issue: 4(93)
• Pages: 93-109
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Garlicki Leszek

• Leszek Garlicki, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydzial Prawa i Administracji, ul. Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28, 00-927 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA06655