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Constitutional Courts

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
This article provides an introduction to the basic institutional features of constitutional courts (CCs), as well as an overview of the small but growing comparative literature on their design, function, impact, and legitimacy. It presents the CC as an ideal type, with its own functional logics, and surveys the comparative scholarship seeking to ...
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The Constitutional Court

2018
Indonesia’s Constitutional Court, established in 2003, is often called a model of judicial reform for other courts in Indonesia and throughout parts of Asia. It reviews statutes against the Constitution, hears disputes about elections and between state organs, and decides presidential impeachment motions brought by the national legislature.
Simon Butt, Tim Lindsey
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The Court and the Constitution

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2023
Americans do not want the Supreme Court to be just another political institution. This is apparent in the lukewarm response to even modest proposals to change the structure of the Court, such as limiting the terms of its justices or changing its size.
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The Court, or the Constitution?

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017
Two of the great recurring questions in constitutional law are the authority of the Supreme Court and the proper method for interpreting the Constitution. Larry Alexander has, of course, written important work on both questions. And on each he takes a hard-nosed but somewhat unfashionable position: He maintains that the Supreme Court has supreme ...
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Constitutional Courts

2017
This chapter considers the role of the courts, which is expected to be critical for electoral integrity through upholding voting rights; examining legal appeals, petitions, and complaints in specific cases; and evaluating the constitutionality of electoral procedures.
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The Influence of the Austrian Constitutional Court on the Constitutional Court of the Principality of Liechtenstein

Zeitschrift für öffentliches Recht, 2021
The Constitutional Court of the Principality of Liechtenstein is one of the oldest constitutional courts in the world. Its duties and responsibilities include the constitutional review of laws as well as the review of international treaties and governmental decrees.
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The Constitution In The Courts

1994
Abstract In the modern period of American constitutional law—the period since the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed racially segregated public schooling in Brown v. Board of Education (1954)—there has been a persistent and vigorous debate in the United States about whether the Court has merely been enforcing the Constitution or whether ...
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Colombia (The Colombian Constitutional Court)

2018
Often ignored by the law, intersexuality has been the subject of numerous decisions by the Colombian Constitutional Court. For more than 20 years now, this court has discussed the issue of sexual diversity, producing a consistent legal framework for practitioners, activists and intersex people. Such a framework, interestingly, was developed through the
RUBIO MARIN, Ruth, OSELLA, Stefano
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I The Constitutional Court, 2 The Constitutional Court: Rules and Model

2016
This chapter succinctly introduces the reader to the composition, jurisdictional scope, and methods of judicial review in Italy. Using both direct and incidental methods of judicial review, the Italian system combines certain elements of centralized systems (like the Austrian paradigm of Hans Kelsen) with elements of diffuse systems of review like that
Barsotti Vittoria, Carozza Paolo G, Cartabia Marta, Simoncini Andrea   +3 more
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