Judging Russia - The Role of the Constitutional Court in Russian Politics 1990-2006

Klappentext This book is about the origins, the functioning, and the impact of the Russian Constitutional Court. Zusammenfassung This book is about the origins! the functioning! and the impact of the Russian Constitutional Court. It explores the actual role that this tribunal played in protecting fundamental rights and resolving legislative-executive struggles and federalism disputes in both Yeltsin's and Putin's Russia. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: three puzzles of post-communist judicial empowerment; 2. Non-linear judicial empowerment; 3. Making and re-making constitutional review Russian-style; 4. The Russian constitutional review in action (1990-3); 5. Decision-making of the 2nd Russian constitutional court: 1995-2006; 6. The constitutional court has ruled ... what next?; 7. The 2nd Russian constitutional court (1995-2007): problematique of implementation; 8. 'Tinkering' with judicial tenure and 'wars of courts' in comparative perspective.

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• Authors: Trochev Alexei, Alexei Trochev, Alexei (Queen''s University Trochev, Trochev Alexei
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.03.2011
• EAN: 9780521173353
• ISBN: 978-0-521-17335-3
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Russia, LAW / Courts, LAW / Comparative, LAW / Trial Practice, Politics & government, Politics and government, comparative law, Courts & procedure, Legal systems: courts and procedures, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet