Rights Before Courts A Study of Constitutional Courts in Postcommunist States of Central and Eastern Europe /

• Main Author: Sadurski, Wojciech (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Subjects: Law.; Political science.; Law > Philosophy.; Private international law.; Conflict of laws.; International law.; Comparative law.; Constitutional law.; Public international law.; Constitutional Law.; Political Science.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.; Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law.; Public International Law.

Challenging the conventional wisdom that constitutional courts are the best device that democratic systems have for the protection of individual rights, Wojciech Sadurski examines carefully the most recent wave of activist constitutional courts: those that have emerged after the fall of communism in...

Table of Contents:

• I
• The Model of Constitutional Review in Central and Eastern Europe: An Overview
• Constitutional Courts in Search of Legitimacy
• The Model of Judicial Review and its Implications
• Constitutional Courts and Legislation
• II
• Judicial Review and Protection of Constitutional Rights
• Personal, Civil and Political Rights and Liberties
• Socio-Economic Rights
• Equality and Minority Rights
• “Decommunisation”, “Lustration”, and Constitutional Continuity
• Restrictions of Rights.