 | Judicial Law-Making in European Constitutional Courts Subjects: Area Studies; Law; Politics & International Relations; Central Asian Russian & Eastern European Studies; European Studies; Public Law; European (EC) Law; Human Rights Law & Civil Liberties; Comparative Politics; European Politics; Jurisprudence & General Issues; Socio-Legal Studies; Government; International Relations; Political Philosophy; Regulatory Policy; Political Behavior and Participation; Comparative Law; Jurisprudence & Philosophy of Law; Socio-Legal Studies - International Law & Politics; Governance; Political Institutions; Law & Courts; International Organizations; Transnationalism; Human Rights; Administrative Law; Law & Society; This book analyses the specificity of the law-making activity of European constitutional courts. The main hypothesis is that currently constitutional courts are positive legislators whose position in the system of State organs needs to be redefined. The book covers the analysis of the law-making activity of four constitutional courts in Western countries: Germany, Italy, Spain, and France; and six constitutional courts in Central-East European countries: Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Latvia, and Bulgaria; as well as two international courts: the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). The work thus identifies the mutual interactions between national constitutional courts and international tribunals in terms of their law-making activity. The chosen countries include constitutional courts which have been recently captured by populist governments and subordinated to political powers. Therefore, one of the purposes of the book is to identify the change in the law-making activity of those courts and to compare it with the activity of constitutional courts from countries in which democracy is not viewed as being under threat. Written by national experts, each chapter addresses a series of set questions allowing accessible and meaningful comparison. The book will be a valuable resource for students, academics, and policy-makers working in the areas of constitutional law and politics. Monika Florczak-Wątor is Professor in the Constitutional Law Department of Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, and the Head of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Constitutional Studies. |
