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

C 2023

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

ŠIPULOVÁ, Katarína a Max STEUER

Základní údaje

Originální název

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

Autoři

ŠIPULOVÁ, Katarína a Max STEUER

Vydání

1st. Neuveden, The Jurisprudence of Particularism National Identity Claims in Central Europe, od s. 81-104, 24 s. Bloomsbury Open Access, Hart Publishing 2023, 2023

Nakladatel

Hart Publishing

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Obor

50501 Law

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Forma vydání

tištěná verze "print"

Odkazy

Open access knihy

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14220/23:00130672

Organizační jednotka

Právnická fakulta

ISBN

978-1-5099-6012-5

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509960156

Klíčová slova anglicky

constitutional identity; particularism; constitutional courts; Slovak Constitutional Court

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 9. 2. 2024 09:25, Mgr. Petra Georgala

Anotace

V originále

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.

Citovat

ŠIPULOVÁ, Katarína a Max STEUER. From Minimalism to the Substantive Core and Back: The Slovak Constitutional Court and (the Lack of) Constitutional Identity. In Kriszta Kovács. The Jurisprudence of Particularism National Identity Claims in Central Europe. 1st. Neuveden: Hart Publishing, 2023, s. 81-104. Bloomsbury Open Access, Hart Publishing 2023. ISBN 978-1-5099-6012-5. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509960156.

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ŠIPULOVÁ, Katarína a Max STEUER. From Minimalism to the Substantive Core and Back: The Slovak Constitutional Court and (the Lack of) Constitutional Identity. In Kriszta Kovács. \textit{The Jurisprudence of Particularism National Identity Claims in Central Europe}. 1st. Neuveden: Hart Publishing, 2023, s.~81-104. Bloomsbury Open Access, Hart Publishing 2023. ISBN~978-1-5099-6012-5. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509960156.

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