No War of Courts in the protection of fundamental rights: The case of amparo appeals in Spain

IF 0.9 3区社会学 Q3 ECONOMICS

International Review of Law and Economics Pub Date : 2024-07-06 DOI:10.1016/j.irle.2024.106212

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Abstract

This paper econometrically tests the possible existence of a War of Courts when the Spanish Constitutional Court (CC) decides on constitutional complaints (recursos de amparo), filed by citizens against the violation of a fundamental right or freedom by the Supreme Court. Exploiting a unique database comprising 404 amparo appeals rulings issued by the Spanish CC for the period 2015–2019, we have carried out various estimates whose results do not confirm the hypothesis of the existence of such a War of Courts, despite the fears expressed in the legal doctrine on this subject. On the contrary, the results suggest that the CC maintains a favourable attitude towards the Supreme Court, specifically when the ruling is issued by the Plenary of the CC. However, the estimates do not allow us to conclusively reject the existence of such a conflict between the CC and other bodies of the Judiciary besides the Supreme Court.

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法院在保护基本权利方面没有战争：西班牙宪法权利保护令上诉案

当西班牙宪法法院（CC）就公民针对最高法院侵犯基本权利或自由而提出的宪法申诉（recursos de amparo）做出裁决时，本文通过计量经济学方法检验了是否可能存在 "法院战争"。我们利用由西班牙宪法法院在 2015-2019 年期间发布的 404 项宪法权利保护上诉裁决组成的独特数据库，进行了各种估算，其结果并未证实存在这种 "法院之战 "的假设，尽管法律理论对此问题表示担忧。相反，估算结果表明，民法委员会对最高法院持支持态度，特别是在民法委员会全体会议做出裁决的情况下。然而，这些估计并不能让我们断然否定消委会与最高法院之外的其他司法机构之间存在这种冲突。

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48 days

期刊介绍： The International Review of Law and Economics provides a forum for interdisciplinary research at the interface of law and economics. IRLE is international in scope and audience and particularly welcomes both theoretical and empirical papers on comparative law and economics, globalization and legal harmonization, and the endogenous emergence of legal institutions, in addition to more traditional legal topics.