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Author Sadurski, Wojciech, 1950-

Title Rights before courts : a study of constitutional courts in postcommunist states of Central and Eastern Europe / by Wojciech Sadurski
Published Dordrecht, Netherlands ; Norwell, MA : Springer, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 377 pages)
Contents 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 -- 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
Summary 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 Central and Eastern Europe. In contrast to most other analysts and scholars he does not take for granted that they are a "force for the good", but rather subjects them to critical scrutiny against the background of a wide-ranging comparative and theoretical analysis of constitutional judicial revie
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-365) and index
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Subject Constitutional courts -- Europe, Eastern
Constitutional courts.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Judicial Branch.
LAW -- Legal Services.
LAW -- Civil Procedure.
Humanities.
Law -- Philosophy.
Public law.
Humanities -- Arts.
European Law/Public International Law.
Humanities, general.
International & Foreign Law/Comparative Law.
Law Theory/Law Philosophy.
Comparative law.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
Constitutional courts
Sądownictwo konstytucyjne -- Europa Środkowo-Wschodnia -- od 1989 r.
Droit constitutionnel -- Postcommunisme -- Europe de l'Est.
Cours constitutionnelles -- Étude comparative.
Eastern Europe
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