{"title":"Human dignity as a new constitutional value of the constitutional system of Republic of Croatia","authors":"Dubravko Ljubić","doi":"10.47743/rdc-2016-3-0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47743/rdc-2016-3-0003","url":null,"abstract":"The study presents the human dignity as the basis of every legal order, its ethics and all \u0000the other factors that make a legal system just, a condition for the existence of \u0000rights in general. Croatian Constitution does not recognize human dignity as the \u0000highest value and the basis of design of the basic legal sphere, but, by accepting \u0000the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union human dignity is not \u0000becoming just the source and means of interpretation of the basic legal sphere, \u0000but it is also becoming the basis for establishing relations between the \u0000individual and the state and individuals themselves","PeriodicalId":421528,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Drept Constituțional","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116766916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Critical considerations regarding the limits of the power to revise the Romanian Constitution","authors":"Dan Claudiu Dănișor","doi":"10.47743/rdc-2018-1-0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47743/rdc-2018-1-0001","url":null,"abstract":"By starting from several principle considerations regarding the relations between the \u0000constituent power, the original and the derived constituent authority, I shall \u0000make a critical analysis of the limits of the power to revise the Constitution, \u0000such as they regulated in 1991 Constitution of Romania. The material limits of \u0000the revision raise certain problems in terms of necessity, clarity and, in the case \u0000of Republican form of government, of the validity of introduction into the legal \u0000system. The teleological limits which prohibit revisions that result in the \u0000suppression of fundamental rights and freedoms or their guarantees raise \u0000several definition problems, especially when the effect targeted by the \u0000constitutional interdiction is indirectly obtained. Finally, the limitation in \u0000exceptional situations betrays the lacunae of the Constitution of Romania in \u0000their definition, and in the case of the prohibition of revision in times of war, the \u0000contradictory historical experiences.","PeriodicalId":421528,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Drept Constituțional","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128316418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The CJEU: an overzealous architect of the relationship between the European Union legal order and the international one?","authors":"Szilárd Gáspár-Szilágyi","doi":"10.47743/rdc-2016-1-0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47743/rdc-2016-1-0003","url":null,"abstract":"The current article provides a critical overview of the CJEU’s role as the main “architect” \u0000of the relationship between the EU legal order and the international legal order. \u0000The activities of the CJEU are assessed in light of four parameters: the \u0000protection of fundamental rights, the protection of the internal division of \u0000competences within the EU, issues of primacy and review of legality when \u0000international agreements are present, and the relationship between the CJEU \u0000and other international tribunals. It is argued that the CJEU in the last decade is \u0000increasingly acting in a fashion similar to federal constitutional courts that seek \u0000to protect the ‘federal’ level legal order from the intrusions of the international \u0000legal order and those of the sub-federal level. In its quest to protect the \u0000autonomy of the EU legal order and its own exclusive jurisdiction in a multilevel, \u0000pluralistic legal system, the CJEU might have caused more harm than good, \u0000affecting legal certainty, and the dialogue between it and the international \u0000legal order or international tribunals.","PeriodicalId":421528,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Drept Constituțional","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116060522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Constitutional reform in Ukraine - a means of improving the judiciary","authors":"S. Oleksandr","doi":"10.47743/rdc-2016-2-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47743/rdc-2016-2-0005","url":null,"abstract":"This study reveals recent constitutional developments in Ukraine, notably in the \u0000constitutional jurisdiction, emphasizing the strengthening of the Constitutional \u0000Court’s role, as a key institution that aims at protecting and developing the \u0000principles and values of constitutionalism and, thereby, the rule of law.","PeriodicalId":421528,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Drept Constituțional","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132763375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The exceptional state in Romania and France. A comparative analysis. Case study: the state of emergency","authors":"Adina GHIDURA (NICĂ)","doi":"10.47743/rdc-2022-1-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47743/rdc-2022-1-0004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":421528,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Drept Constituțional","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133468742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Le judge dans L'Etat de droit, liberal et democratique, gardien des libertes et de la democratie","authors":"Slobodan Milačić","doi":"10.47743/rdc-2015-1-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47743/rdc-2015-1-0004","url":null,"abstract":"Le point de vue adopté dans ce «papier» vise à remobiliser la problématique du juge dans \u0000l’Etat de droit contemporain en le positionnant au sein du système démocratique et \u0000libéral, restructuré par le néolibéralisme. Le juge apparaît alors non seulement \u0000comme le «gardien des libertés» fondamentales, c'est-à-dire essentiellement \u0000individuelles, mais aussi comme le gardien des normes et de l’esprit des normes \u0000démocratiques, relatives aux institutions et procédures politiques, qui constitue \u0000l’autre profil du juge, relativement négligé par les discours ambiants. A ce double titre \u0000le travail du juge constitutionnel implique aussi et nécessairement le politique, qu’il \u0000n’y a pas lieux de dénoncer trop rapidement au motif de la «politisation du juge» et \u0000du danger d’un «gouvernement des juges»! D’autant plus qu’au-delà du droit et du \u0000juge, le système aujourd’hui désigné de façon raccourcie comme l’«Etat de droit» est \u0000structurellement garanti par les valeurs et les procédures plus spécifiquement \u0000démocratiques. Si le juge garantit la norme, c’est la démocratie pluraliste qui établit \u0000la norme libérale et garantit le juge, avec son statut de «troisième pouvoir»; \u0000primordialement juridique, mais avec des implications politiques-légitimes, puisque la \u0000démocratie, elle-même, est substantiellement politique ou elle n’est pas","PeriodicalId":421528,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Drept Constituțional","volume":"121 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116833531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Legislative and Jurisprudential Landmarks on Postal Voting","authors":"T. Toader, Marieta Safta","doi":"10.47743/rdc-2015-1-0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47743/rdc-2015-1-0007","url":null,"abstract":"Having examined the regulations on the matter, it is found that this voting method essentially refers to the casting of votes by mail, either directly to the appropriate electoral authority of the voter’s electoral district of his/her country of origin, or to his/her country’s embassy or consulate that has jurisdiction over the voter. As a general rule, ballots are mailed to voters together with an inner and an outer envelope. The filled-in ballot paper is placed in the inner envelope which is then placed in the outer envelope and sent by mail. As a main rule, the postal service is free of charge. The main advantage of postal voting consists in facilitating the exercise of the right to vote for oversees voters. Further below, we will provide certain legislative and jurisprudential landmarks on postal voting, building on the general framework given by the constitutional rules which enshrine political rights, and particularising with examples from the case-law of certain constitutional courts which were called upon to adjudicate on the constitutionality of the regulations concerning this method for the exercise of the right to vote.","PeriodicalId":421528,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Drept Constituțional","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126317521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The prerogative writs - indian perspective","authors":"Harshad Pathak","doi":"10.47743/rdc-2016-2-0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47743/rdc-2016-2-0003","url":null,"abstract":"The Constitution of India broadly provides for five kinds of “prerogative” writs: habeas \u0000corpus, certiorari, mandamus, quo warranto and prohibition. This study \u0000presents their legal status, namely their application, procedure and grounds for \u0000their application. \u0000The study concludes that, in India, the rule of law is supreme and judiciary has \u0000the right to interfere whenever there is deviation from this supremacy. The \u0000judiciary shall ensure that all administrative actions comply with legal limits \u0000and consider administrative measures to assess whether the authority has \u0000exercised powers, the authority misused or exceeded its powers, the authority \u0000committed an error of law, the authority violated principles of impartiality of \u0000the judiciary, the authority has violated the fundamental rights of individuals. \u0000The Judiciary stands to ensure that all administrative actions are confined to \u0000the limits of the law and examines administrative action to assess whether the \u0000authority has exercised its powers, whether the authority has abused or \u0000exceeded its powers, whether the authority has committed an error of law, \u0000whether the authority has violated the principles of natural justice, whether the \u0000authority has infringed the fundamental rights of persons.","PeriodicalId":421528,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Drept Constituțional","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129767256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Profound changes in the legal system: Constitutional Court of the Republic of Moldova made it possible for every litigant to raise the exception of unconstitutionality","authors":"Al. Tanase","doi":"10.47743/rdc-2016-1-0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47743/rdc-2016-1-0001","url":null,"abstract":"This study analyses the Judgment of the Constitutional Court of Moldova no. 2 of 9 \u0000February 2016 for the interpretation of Article 135 para. (1) letters a) and g) of \u0000the Constitution of the Republic of Moldova (exception of unconstitutionality), \u0000by which it has been decided that the right to raise the exception belongs to all \u0000courts of law, respectively to judges who belong to such courts, and the \u0000challenge regarding the constitutional review of certain rules which are to be \u0000applied in the settlement of a case shall be submitted directly to the \u0000Constitutional Court by the judges/panels of judges in the Supreme Court of \u0000Justice, courts of appeal and courts, where the case is at issue. Opening to every \u0000individual the opportunity to raise the exception of unconstitutionality, the \u0000existing mechanism for the protection of human rights has been redefined, \u0000representing the first significant step towards the introduction of an individual \u0000complaint to the Constitutional Court.","PeriodicalId":421528,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Drept Constituțional","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130260689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mesures restrictives de L'Union Europeenne pour lutter contre le terrorisme, droits de la defense et jurisprudence de la Cour de justice de l'Union Europeenne","authors":"Diego Colás, Brice Fodda","doi":"10.47743/rdc-2016-4-0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47743/rdc-2016-4-0003","url":null,"abstract":"Dans son arrêt du 3 septembre 2008, Kadi et Al Barakaat International Foundation/Conseil \u0000et Commission (C-402/05 P, dit «arrêt Kadi I», point 81), la Cour de Justice de \u0000l’Union Européenne a souligné avec une certaine solennité que «la \u0000Communauté Européenne est une communauté de droit en ce que ni ses États \u0000membres ni ses institutions n’échappent au contrôle de la conformité de leurs \u0000actes à la charte constitutionnelle de base qu’est le traité de l’Union». \u0000Dans le cadre de la même affaire, quelques années plus tard, dans son arrêt du \u000018 juillet 2013, Commission, Conseil et Royaume-Uni/Kadi (C‑584/10 P, \u0000C‑593/10 P et C‑595/10 P, dit «arrêt Kadi II», point 66), la Cour de Justice de \u0000l’Union Européenne a de nouveau qualifié de «constitutionnelle» la garantie \u0000qu’incarne, dans une Union de droit, le contrôle juridictionnel de la légalité de \u0000tout acte de l’Union, y compris de ceux qui, comme en l’occurrence, mettent en \u0000œuvre un acte de droit international, au regard des droits fondamentaux \u0000garantis par l’Union. \u0000Ainsi, c’est à l’occasion de la lutte contre le terrorisme qu’a été rappelée et \u0000consacrée une caractéristique qui, certes, existait déjà en droit de l’Union3 et \u0000qui permettait à l’Union Européenne de considérer son traité fondateur comme \u0000un acte qui n’était pas seulement de nature contractuelle ou synallagmatique, \u0000mais comme véritablement constitutionnel, c’est-à-dire fondateur d’un ordre \u0000juridique construit sur des valeurs partagées.","PeriodicalId":421528,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Drept Constituțional","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125906797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}