|
|
Political context of nominations of justices of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic
Binhack, Oto ; Ondřejková, Jana (advisor) ; Chmel, Jan (referee)
The political context of the selection of the judges of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic Abstract The thesis deals with the political context of the selection of judges of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic. The research question is whether the Senate's rejection of the President's nominees is more a manifestation of political power or a corrective to the high moral and professional quality of the Constitutional Court judges. Along with this, the thesis examines whether it would be appropriate to change the current legal regulation of the selection of constitutional judges. The first part of the thesis initially summarises the previous academic reflections on the topic, which mostly pointed out the inappropriateness of the possibility of reappointing constitutional judges, together with the linking of their terms of office to the president's, and the somewhat haphazard approach of senators to the assessment of candidates. Furthermore, this part of the thesis contains a definition of the research question consisting in a narrow conception of politics in the sense of policy. The second to fifth parts of the thesis are devoted to the terms of office of individual presidents, with a review of their unsuccessful nominations to the Constitutional Court, although in the case of Václav...
|
|
|
The impact of the political question doctrine on decision-making of judges of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic
Procházková, Andrea ; Kysela, Jan (advisor) ; Uhl, Pavel (referee)
The impact of the political question doctrine on decision-making of judges of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic Abstract The thesis deals with the influence of the political question doctrine on decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic. It explains the meaning of the political question in the United States, describes what the possible Czech political questions could be and outlines reasons for judicial restraint in the cases lying on the boundary of law and politics. The first part of the thesis briefly presents relations between constitutional law and the part of politics which is closely connected to the constitutional judiciary. This relationship is explained by a phenomenon called the judicialization of politics which describes the growing role of constitutional courts in solving political controversies and policy questions. Moreover, to better understand the impact of the political question doctrine on decision-making of Czech constitutional judges, the second part of the thesis deals with the origin and an establishment of this doctrine in the Supreme Court of the United States, and indicates its future development. The third and fourth part of the thesis focuses on defining the Czech political question, its limits and also on its application by the Constitutional Court...
|
|
|
The Trust in law within the case law of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic
Huňová, Veronika ; Urban, Michal (advisor) ; Friedel, Tomáš (referee)
The Trust in law within the case law of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic Abstract The main topic of the diploma thesis is an attitude of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic towards the principle of trust in law presented in its case law. The thesis is stratified into three major sections. The first part is focused on the Constitutional Court as one of the fundamental constitutional institutions - in the beginning of the thesis highlights its substance and explains why it's case law is worth studying in detail. Considering the main topic, some aspects described in this first part are analyzed through the optics of trust or credibility. Firstly, the significance of constitutionality protection and the history of constitutional judiciary are studied shortly. Further, this part inspects the position of the Constitutional Court within our constitutional system. Also, the relationship between the Constitutional Court and general courts is studied and separate chapter is dedicated to the legislation of the Constitutional Court's executive mechanisms. Moreover, the problematics of case law as a theoretical concept and controversial questions which are regarding the case law analysed in the literature are mentioned. The first part is concluded by investigating the criticized aspects of...
|
|
|
Judge-Made Law - Comparison between the Court of Justice of the European Union and the Supreme Court of the United States
Dumbrovský, Tomáš
JUDGE-MADE LAW COMPARISON BETWEEN THE COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES Keywords: judge-made law; the European Union; the Court of Justice of the European Union; the Supreme Court of the United States; judicialization of governance; Kelsenian court; European constitutional space; European constitution; normativity; constitutional pluralism; sovereignty; federalism; post-communist states; new Member States of the European Union. Standard page (that is 1800 characters per page) and word count (including footnotes; without the contents, bibliography and annexes): 327 standard pages; 82 795 words. The Ph.D. thesis offers a complex reconceptualization of the constitutional system in the European Union. The constitutional systems of the Member States have been substantially transformed during the 20th century. Meanwhile a new constitutional system functioning in the Member States alongside their own systems has emerged - the constitutional system of the European Union. These two fundamental changes are difficult to grasp through an existing theoretical framework. That is because the framework is based on a set of outdated concepts: (i) Rousseau's concept of volonté générale that forms the basis of the parliamentary supremacy in a constitutional system; (ii)...
|
|
|
The role of the Constitutional Court in the environmental protection.
Domesová, Simona ; Stejskal, Vojtěch (advisor) ; Sobotka, Michal (referee)
This thesis aims to find out what the role of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic in environmental protection is. It should be found out through analysis of the case-law in this field. At first it follows up the characteristics and history of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic. It continues by talking about sources of environmental law and the most important chapter contains analysis of the cases. The thesis discusses the right to the favorable environment, the right to environmental information, the EIA procedure, the Aarhus Convention and the collision of the right to a favorable environment with other rights and freedoms as the most important topics. The thesis showed that the Constitutional Court ruled several times during his practice significantly in favor of the environment. But the less positive conclusion of the thesis is that Czech Republic law does not fully comply with the Aarhus Convention despite it is our obligation. The Constitutional Court will surely deal with this topic again. And the praxes will show us whether we are able to move our legislation closer to public participation in the processess related to the environment. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
|
|
|
Constitutional court of Czech Republic decisions on media
Trkovská, Jana ; Hanák, Peter (advisor) ; Benda, Josef (referee)
This bachelor thesis concerns decisions of the Czech Republic Constitutional Court affecting medial area. It is divided into four chapters of which the first two are theoretical while the other two are practical oriented. Chapter one describes the term medial system and presents their individual models and presents Czech Republic as one these. This chapter also describes legislation concerning freedom of speech and the legal protection of personality. The second chapter focuses on the Constitutional Court of Czech Republic and its position in Czech judicatory system and explains means of how the Court can affect media and journalists. It also concerns obligatory effect the Court's decisions within Czech law system. Practical part of the thesis is dedicated to analysis of several Constitutional Court's decisions. This part of the paper discover the Court's influence on Czech medial environment and the work of journalists. The Constitutional Court has defined the boundaries of law execution regarding the freedom of speech and also defined several concepts connected to media. This thesis shows that the Court affect journalists' work in the way that they know how to phrase their statements without disturbing the freedom of speech.
|
|
|
Constitutional review of the limits of powers of the EU in the CR and Germany (the Lisbon Treaty and further development
Kupová, Věra ; Zemánek, Jiří (advisor) ; Král, Richard (referee)
CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW OF THE LIMITS OF POWERS OF THE EU IN THE CR AND GERMANY (THE LISBON TREATY AND FURTHER DEVELOPMENT) The purpose of the thesis is to analyze the case-law of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic and the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany relevant to the question of the relationship between Union law and national law, paying attention especially to the problematic area of ultra vires review claims, ie to the right of the constitutional court of a Member State to take the final decision whether an act of any European institution exceeds powers that have been transferred from the Member States to the EU according to the Treaties. The thesis consists beside introduction and conclusion of four chapters. Chapter one introduces the key provisions of the national constitutions both in Germany and in the Czech Republic, which allow to the Member States to delegate some of their sovereign powers to the EU. Chapter two deals with earlier decisions of both constitutional courts regarding the matter of EU law (before the Lisbon judgement) and points out the leading premises which were most important for the future development of the case-law on relationship between Union law and national law. Chapter three provides an analysis of three judgements on the Treaty of Lisbon (the Lisbon...
|
|
|
Judge-made Law. Comparison between the Court of Justice of the European Union and the Supreme Court of the United States
Dumbrovský, Tomáš ; Tichý, Luboš (advisor) ; Holländer, Pavol (referee) ; Zemánek, Jiří (referee)
JUDGE-MADE LAW COMPARISON BETWEEN THE COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES Keywords: judge-made law; the European Union; the Court of Justice of the European Union; the Supreme Court of the United States; judicialization of governance; Kelsenian court; European constitutional space; European constitution; normativity; constitutional pluralism; sovereignty; federalism; post-communist states; new Member States of the European Union. Standard page (that is 1800 characters per page) and word count (including footnotes; without the contents, bibliography and annexes): 327 standard pages; 82 795 words. The Ph.D. thesis offers a complex reconceptualization of the constitutional system in the European Union. The constitutional systems of the Member States have been substantially transformed during the 20th century. Meanwhile a new constitutional system functioning in the Member States alongside their own systems has emerged - the constitutional system of the European Union. These two fundamental changes are difficult to grasp through an existing theoretical framework. That is because the framework is based on a set of outdated concepts: (i) Rousseau's concept of volonté générale that forms the basis of the parliamentary supremacy in a constitutional system; (ii)...
|
|
|
Application of natural law in the Czech jurisdiction
PANUŠ, Marek
This work deals with the development and possible application of natural law in the Czech judiciary. The first part of this work deals with relationship between natural and positive law, historical development of natural law and legal positivism. The second part investigates the current legal order of the Czech Republic and the practice of Constitutional Court, which should give judgements that are conformable with natural-law core of Constitution of the Czech Republic. The work reflects that there is some difficulty in application of natural rights in practice of Constitutional Court. On that account the work solves how is the natural law applied. However, the work finds out that there obviously aren?t any sources which would be treated about mentioned application. The third part of this work is engaged in possible proposal of natural law as a potential solution of difficulties that are connected with practice of Constitutional Court.
|
guest ::
