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Authors: Alexander Balyatkeev, Svetlana Ben’yaminova, Vsevolod Kabanov
DOI: 10.21128/1812-7126-2023-3-72-89
Keywords: constitutional justice; constitutional control; constitutional supervision; constitutional (charter) council; constitutional (charter) court; committee of constitutional supervision; a priori norm control; a posteriori norm control; separation of powers
The article examines the latest reform of regional constitutional justice. The authors note some similarities in the legal status of constitutional (charter) councils operating under the legislative (representative) bodies of state power of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation with the status of bodies formed in accordance with the French version of the European model of constitutional control. The study examines the genesis of the modern institute of constitutional control in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. As a conclusion, the thesis is postulated that constitutional (charter) councils are the result of the regional legislatures’ return to the institution of constitutional supervision committees that arose in the late Soviet era.
About the authors: Alexander Balyatkeev – Proofreader on Questions of Law in Law Journals “Zakon” and “Vestnik ekonomicheskogo pravosudiya”, Moscow, Russia; Svetlana Ben’yaminova – Candidate of Sciences (Ph.D.) in Law, Retired Chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Karelia, Associate Professor of the Department of Public Law, Head of the Department of Judicial Systems and Criminal Law, Faculty of Law, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia; Vsevolod Kabanov – Tutor of the Open Law School, Faculty of Law, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia.
Citation: Ben’yaminova S., Balyatkeev A., Kabanov V. (2023) Konstitutsionnye (ustavnye) sovety sub’ektov Rossiyskoy Federatsii: v poiskakh statusa [Constitutional (charter) councils of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation: in search of their status]. Sravnitel’noe konstitutsionnoe obozrenie, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 72–88. (In Russian).
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