On the rule of law and the quality of the law: reflections of the constitutional-turned-international judge

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Teoría y realidad constitucional, ISSN 1139-5583, Nº 42, 2018 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos), pags. 131-159

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Western legal tradition
the rule of law
human rights
European Convention on Human Rights
European Court of Human Rights
the quality of the law
constitutional courts
Estado de Derecho
Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos

Western legal tradition
the rule of law
human rights
European Convention on Human Rights
European Court of Human Rights
the quality of the law
constitutional courts
Estado de Derecho
Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos
Küris, Egidijus
On the rule of law and the quality of the law: reflections of the constitutional-turned-international judge

Western legal tradition gave the birth to the concept of the rule of law. Legal theory and constitutional justice significantly contributed to the crystallisation of its standards and to moving into the direction of the common concept of the rule of law. The European Court of Human Rights uses this concept as an interpretative tool, the extension of which is the quality of the law doctrine, which encompasses concrete requirements for the law under examination in this Court, such as prospectivity of law, its foreseeability, clarity etc. The author of the article, former judge of the Lithuanian Constitutional Court and currently the judge of the European Court of Human Rights, examines how the latter court has gradually intensified (not always consistently) its reliance on the rule of law as a general principle, inherent in all the Articles of the European Convention on Human Rights, to the extent that in some of its judgments it concentrates not anymore on the factual situation of an individual applicant, but, first and foremost, on the examination of the quality of the law. The trend is that, having found the quality of the applicable law to be insufficient, the Court considers that the mere existence of contested legislation amounts to an unjustifiable interference into a respective right and finds a violation of respective provisions of the Convention. This is an indication of the Court’s progressing self-approximation to constitutional courts, which are called to exercise abstract norm-control.

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Küris, Egidijus

Küris, Egidijus

Küris, Egidijus

On the rule of law and the quality of the law: reflections of the constitutional-turned-international judge

On the rule of law and the quality of the law: reflections of the constitutional-turned-international judge

On the rule of law and the quality of the law: reflections of the constitutional-turned-international judge

On the rule of law and the quality of the law: reflections of the constitutional-turned-international judge

On the rule of law and the quality of the law: reflections of the constitutional-turned-international judge

on the rule of law and the quality of the law: reflections of the constitutional-turned-international judge

2018

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dialnet-ar-18-ART00013116722023-03-04On the rule of law and the quality of the law: reflections of the constitutional-turned-international judgeKüris, EgidijusWestern legal traditionthe rule of lawhuman rightsEuropean Convention on Human RightsEuropean Court of Human Rightsthe quality of the lawconstitutional courtsEstado de DerechoTribunal Europeo de Derechos HumanosWestern legal tradition gave the birth to the concept of the rule of law. Legal theory and constitutional justice significantly contributed to the crystallisation of its standards and to moving into the direction of the common concept of the rule of law. The European Court of Human Rights uses this concept as an interpretative tool, the extension of which is the quality of the law doctrine, which encompasses concrete requirements for the law under examination in this Court, such as prospectivity of law, its foreseeability, clarity etc. The author of the article, former judge of the Lithuanian Constitutional Court and currently the judge of the European Court of Human Rights, examines how the latter court has gradually intensified (not always consistently) its reliance on the rule of law as a general principle, inherent in all the Articles of the European Convention on Human Rights, to the extent that in some of its judgments it concentrates not anymore on the factual situation of an individual applicant, but, first and foremost, on the examination of the quality of the law. The trend is that, having found the quality of the applicable law to be insufficient, the Court considers that the mere existence of contested legislation amounts to an unjustifiable interference into a respective right and finds a violation of respective provisions of the Convention. This is an indication of the Court’s progressing self-approximation to constitutional courts, which are called to exercise abstract norm-control.La tradición occidental alumbró la noción del Estado de Derecho. La teoría del Derecho y la Justicia Constitucional han contribuido decisivamente a la cristalización de sus estándares, ayudando a conformar un acervo común en torno al mismo. El Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos emplea la noción de Estado de Derecho como una herramienta interpretativa, fundamentalmente centrada en la doctrina de la calidad de la ley, que implica requisitos concretos que exige el Tribunal tales como la claridad, la previsibilidad, y la certeza en la redacción y aplicación de la norma. El autor, en la actualidad Juez del Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos y anterior Magistrado del Tribunal Constitucional de Lituania, examina cómo el primero ha intensificado gradualmente (no siempre de forma igual de consistente) su confianza en el Estado de Derecho como principio general, inherente a todos los preceptos que forman el Convenio Europeo de Derechos Humanos, hasta el punto de que en algunas de sus resoluciones se concentra no tanto en la situación de hecho del demandante individual sino, sobre todo y ante todo, en el examen de esa calidad de la ley. La tendencia del Tribunal es a considerar que, si observa que la ley no goza de calidad suficiente, la mera existencia de la legislación discutida supone una interferencia injustificable dentro del derecho en cuestión y declara la violación del precepto correspondiente del Convenio. Esto implica el acercamiento progresivo del Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos a los Tribunales Constitucionales, quienes tienen encargado el control en abstracto de la norma legal.2018text (article)application/pdfhttps://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=6800418(Revista) ISSN 1139-5583Teoría y realidad constitucional, ISSN 1139-5583, Nº 42, 2018 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos), pags. 131-159engLICENCIA DE USO: Los documentos a texto completo incluidos en Dialnet son de acceso libre y propiedad de sus autores y/o editores. Por tanto, cualquier acto de reproducción, distribución, comunicación pública y/o transformación total o parcial requiere el consentimiento expreso y escrito de aquéllos. Cualquier enlace al texto completo de estos documentos deberá hacerse a través de la URL oficial de éstos en Dialnet. Más información: https://dialnet.unirioja.es/info/derechosOAI | INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS STATEMENT: Full text documents hosted by Dialnet are protected by copyright and/or related rights. This digital object is accessible without charge, but its use is subject to the licensing conditions set by its authors or editors. Unless expressly stated otherwise in the licensing conditions, you are free to linking, browsing, printing and making a copy for your own personal purposes. All other acts of reproduction and communication to the public are subject to the licensing conditions expressed by editors and authors and require consent from them. Any link to this document should be made using its official URL in Dialnet. More info: https://dialnet.unirioja.es/info/derechosOAI