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The Political Character of Constitutional Review
Juhás, Juraj ; Gerloch, Aleš (advisor) ; Kosař, David (referee) ; Kühn, Zdeněk (referee)
in the English language: The Political Character of Constitutional Review. In this thesis, we tried to find out whether constitutional review in the Czech Republic has at least partially a political character. In the Czech Republic, constitutional review is exercised by the Constitutional Court in two types of proceedings: (a) proceedings on derogation of statutes and other regulations (laws) and (b) proceedings on constitutional complaints against decisions or other interferences of public authorities in constitutionally guaranteed fundamental rights or freedoms. In proceedings on derogation of laws, we found that judicial decision-making behaviour has at least partially a political character. The reason is, in particular, that (a) judges decide in favour of proposals for derogation of laws filed by legislators (deputies or senators) of the same political affiliation as the judges' appointing president more often than when the legislator's political affiliation is the opposite; (b) ideological assessment of the analysed decisions shows that ideological aspects of the decision-making of judges significantly correlate with the presumed ideology of their appointing president. Moreover, the differences in judicial activism are smaller than the differences between legislators of opposite political...
The model of constitutional judiciary in the Czech Republic
Hoscheková, Patricia ; Gerloch, Aleš (advisor) ; Hřebejk, Jiří (referee)
Název práce v anglickém jazyce: The model of constitutional judiciary in the Czech republic My Master's degree thesis deals with the constitutional judiciary model in the Czech republic. The aim of my work is mainly to describe the present functional Czech judicial control of constitutionality, give a short insight into it's history and briefly mention models of constitutional judiciary of some other countries. Besides the introduction and the conclusion the thesis consists of four parts (or chapters). In the first chapter of my work I am defining the terms: "control of constitutionality" and "constitutional judiciary" and I am writing about the history and development of constitutional judiciary on our teritory from the Habsburg monarchy till the present Constitutional Court existing from 1993. The second chapter is dealing with models of constitutional judiciary in general and shortly tries to describe it's adjustment in the neighboring countries of Germany, Austria, Poland and Slovakia. The constitutional judiciary in these states is very similar to the Czech model. To mention at least one different model I am offering a short excursion into the American "judicial review". The main part of the thesis shows the current resemblance of the constitutional judiciary in the Czech republic: it's...

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