Courts in the Constitution making process: Paradoxes and Justifications

Kouroutakis, Antonios

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Courts in the Constitution making process: Paradoxes and Justifications

dc.contributor.author	Kouroutakis, Antonios
dc.contributor.editor	Belov, Martin
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dc.date.accessioned	2025-01-23T13:53:37Z
dc.date.available	2025-01-23T13:53:37Z
dc.date.issued	2019-10-16
dc.description.abstract	This chapter examines the role of the judiciary in four constitutional orders, Colombia, South Africa, Honduras, and Nepal in the constitution-making process in 1991, 1993, 2009, and 2011, respectively. It highlights paradoxes but also to offer justifications, both formal and substantive, for the intervention of the courts in the constitutionalization of a new legal order. The chapter argues that the existence of an interim constitution or a total revision of the existing constitution may grant direct authority to the court to intervene in the constitution-making process, for instance by controlling the constituent assembly, reviewing its acts and even certifying the final constitutional document. It examines the formal justifications for the courts’ intervention. The chapter focuses on the case of South Africa and shows that the existence of an interim constitution may provide the positive law ground for the courts’ intervention. It also focuses on the substantive grounds that permit the courts’ intervention in such process, when formal justifications are absent.
dc.description.peerreviewed	yes
dc.description.status	Published
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dc.identifier.citation	Kouroutakis, A. (2019). Courts in the constitution-making process: Paradoxes and justifications. In Courts, Politics and Constitutional Law (pp. 173-186). Routledge.
dc.identifier.isbn	9780429297069
dc.identifier.publicationtitle	Courts, Politics and Constitutional Law
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14417/3478
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Taylor & Francis
dc.relation.department	Public Law & Global Governance
dc.relation.entity	IE University
dc.relation.school	IE Law School
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dc.title	Courts in the Constitution making process: Paradoxes and Justifications
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