The constitutional crisis in Poland as a negative model of Hans Kelsen’s constitutional judiciary idea

Journal Title: Polish Law Review - Year 2016, Vol 2, Issue 1

Abstract

In the face of constitutional crisis in Poland, initiated in 2015 and ongoing to this day, it is essential for academics to describe legal events and rationales constituting the crisis using such measures so that issues associated with the crisis are descried in the most objective manner possible. This paper attempts to describe the rationale and activities of antagonistic parties to the dispute from the perspective of relevant issues, which one of the most prominent authors of the European idea of constitutional judiciary - Hans Kelsen pointed out in his paper “Essence and development of constitutional judiciary”, already in 1928. Deliberations covered in this article focus - from general issues - on the issues of systemic political motives as a threat to the guarantee of compliance of normative acts with the Constitution and issues relating to the authority competent to repeal unlawful acts. It also discusses specific problems concerning personal substrate of constitutional court, as well as the related issue of the presumption of constitutionality, and publishing of the court’s judgments. Comparison between topics undertaken by Kelsen with aspects of the constitutional crisis allows to draw a general conclusion that the actions of policy makers resembles a negative model of Kelsen’s idea of effective constitutional judiciary.<br/><br/>

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Sławomir Piekarczyk

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  • EP ID EP188152
  • DOI 10.5604/24509841.1232096
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Sławomir Piekarczyk (2016). The constitutional crisis in Poland as a negative model of Hans Kelsen’s constitutional judiciary idea. Polish Law Review, 2(1), 58-72. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-188152