Rights before courts a study of constitutional courts in postcommunist states of Central and Eastern Europe /
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...
| Main Author: | Sadurski, Wojciech, 1950- |
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| Other Authors: | SpringerLink (Online service) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Dordrecht, Netherlands ; Norwell, MA :
Springer,
©2005.
Dordrecht, Netherlands ; Norwell, MA : [2005] |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xviii, 377 pages) |
| Subjects: |
Table of 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.