COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE OF THE EAST-CENTRAL EUROPEAN CONSTITUTIONAL COURTS

  • Zoltan Toth
Keywords: constitutional adjudication, constitutional courts, election of members and presidents of constitutional corts, East-Central Europe

Abstract


Abstract: The present paper is going to deal with the composition, the recruitment base, the operational mechanisms and the innen structure of the constitutional courts in the course of constitutional adjudication of eight East-Central European countries (in alphabetical order: Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia), from a comparative law perspective. Despite their partially different historical past and the distinctions in the existence of predecessor institutions (or the lack therof), the inner organizational arrangements of the constitutional courts of the states analyzed and the rules of recruitment of constitutional judges therein show considerable similarity across the region.

Author Biography

Zoltan Toth

Prof. Dr. Tóth J. Zoltán
egyetemi tanár, Jogtörténeti, Jogelméleti és Egyházjogi Tanszék
Károli Gáspár Református Egyetem, Állam- és Jogtudományi Kar
1042 Budapest, Viola u. 2-4.
Tel: (+36 1) 370-8601
Fax: (+36 1) 370-8601/109
www.kre.hu/ajk

Prof. Dr. Zoltán J. TÓTH
University Professor, Department of Legal History, Jurisprudence and Church Law
Faculty of Law of the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary
H-1042 Budapest, Viola str. 2-4.
Tel: (+36 1) 370-8601
Fax: (+36 1) 370-8601/109
www.kre.hu/ajk

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Published
2023/01/31
Section
Original Scientific Paper