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The constitutional court as a negative legislator: Restriction of constitutionally guaranteed rights for the purposes of environmental protection
Knobová, Michaela ; Žákovská, Karolina (advisor) ; Stejskal, Vojtěch (referee)
The Constitutional Court as a negative legislator: Restriction of constitutionally guaranteed rights for the purposes of environmental protection Abstract This thesis examines how the Czech Constitutional Court deals with proposals to repeal laws or statutory provisions that restrict constitutional rights or other constitutional provisions concerning environmental protection. Specifically, it examines how the Court deals with conflicts between constitutional rights concerning environmental protection and other constitutional laws pertaining to the environment and/or the public interest in protecting the environment. In addition to the analysis of the decision-making practice of the Constitutional Court, the thesis deals with the anchoring of environmental protection in constitutional documents and in the Czech Constitution - both in the preambls of the Constitution and the Charter, where the environmental protection is embodied in individual rights and the state's duty to protect the environment, including those provisions where environmental or nature protection is explicitly enshrined as a possible grounds for restriction of another constitutional right. The thesis briefly describes the role of the Constitutional Court as a negative legislator, ie its power to repeal laws or individual statutory...

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