香港与中央的“违宪审查”协调

在香港基本法的设计中 ,中央与香港均拥有基本法解释权及审查权。如果两者不能在权限、管辖、程序及释义方面达成一定的默契 ,就会引发宪制危机。本文在分析两地法治传统和宪制模式的差异以及香港基本法对“违宪审查权”的制度设计后 ,提出中央和香港应本着相互理解和宽容的原则 ,按照中国宪法体制与英美法制传统相结合的思路 ,在基本法所设计的中央与特区分权的制度框架内进行协调 ,以避免和化解这种冲突。     

Constitutional Judicial Review in the Russian Federation

The institution of constitutional judicial review has acquired a new legal foundation for its application: the Constitution of the Russian Federation (RF), adopted on 12 December 1993; the federal constitutional Law on the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation of 21 June 1994; and other acts. However, the opportunities for full implementation of this new legislation on constitutional judicial review in the Russian Federation are constrained by problems from the past: first of all, by the problem of depoliticization, which has assumed exaggerated proportions as a result of the lack of practical success that marked the first stage of the Constitutional Court's operation in Russia. The resolution of this problem has become a condition for the viability of specialized constitutional judicial review in the RF. The difficulty of understanding and mastering this problem is further aggravated by the ambiguous nature of the institution of constitutional judicial review, not only in the Russian model but also in the classical model of its organization. For it is indisputable that constitutional judicial review is a component of the mechanism of judicial authority, regardless of where it is situated in the constitutional structure of power. However, constitutional judicial review cannot be wholly equated with traditional judicial functions since it is at the same time also a political activity undertaken through a jurisdictional form.     

The Genesis of the Austrian Model of Constitutional Review of Legislation

Abstract The European model of the constitutional review of legislation, characterized by the concentration of the constitutional review power in a single constitutional court, had its origin in the Austrian Federal Constitution of 1920. This is all the more remarkable when one considers that this Constitution established at the same time a parliamentary system of government in a fairly radical form. As the author explains, this “invention” of a constitutional court is attributable to two factors. One factor is the federal aspect. The Court was conceived by the framers of the Austrian Federal Constitution of 1920 as an umpire between federal legislation and the legislation of the states or Länder. In this respect it was meant as a substitute for the principle of the priority of federal law over state or Land law. This is manifest in the initial draft of the Constitution, where actions on questions of the constitutionality of legislation could only be brought by the Federal government (against the legislation of one or another of the states or Länder) and by the State or Land governments (against federal legislation). Right from the beginning, however, the Court could examine a parliamentary act ex officio when it had to apply such an act in another proceeding. It was this power of the Court that triggered the development of constitutional review. Its exercise gradually transformed the Court into a guardian of the Constitution as a whole, in particular, the fundamental rights of citizens. The author traces this development in the context of the concept of state and law that prevailed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. This concept included specific restrictions on constitutional review. On the basis of a different understanding of the functions of a constitution, the Court gave up these restrictions and followed the examples of the European Court of Human Rights, the German Constitutional Court and—indirectly—the American Supreme Court.     

最高人民法院在合宪性审查中的现状、困境与出路——兼对我国《立法法》第99条第1款解释

我国《立法法》预设了最高人民法院提请全国人大常委会进行合宪性审查的路径。从现有裁判文书来看,最高人民法院在实践中并未遵循我国《立法法》所预设的路径,而是在绝大多数案件中回避了合宪性审查诉求,同时又在个别案件中进行了合宪性审查,陷入了完全回避与直接审查的两难困境。造成这种困境的原因在于,我国《立法法》对最高人民法院在合宪性审查中的权力基础、权力行使程序缺乏清晰的规定。对此,亟待通过法律解释进行明确和细化,否则最高人民法院将无章可循,无法贸然提请全国人大常委会进行合宪性审查。为了化解最高人民法院面对的这一困境,有必要对我国《立法法》第99条第1款进行解释,推导出该条款在授予最高人民法院提请审查权时,还隐含着另一项未被释明的权力即预审权,其共同构成最高人民法院在合宪性审查中的权力基础;同时,为了使预审权与提请审查权的行使制度化,有必要对其行使程序进行细化,建立起预审-提请审查机制。     

论中国特色社会主义法律体系、法治体系与制度体系的有机统一

作为国家根本法,宪法为中国特色社会主义法律体系、法治体系与制度体系三个体系的建设提供了基本的法律依据。党的十九届四中全会审议通过的《中共中央关于坚持和完善中国特色社会主义制度推进国家治理体系和治理能力现代化若干重大问题的决定》所提出的涉及到十三个方面的中国特色社会主义根本制度、基本制度和重要制度是对现行《宪法》第1条第2款所规定的国家根本制度——社会主义制度内涵的补充、深化和发展,充分体现了宪法所规定的中国特色社会主义国家制度和法律制度之间的一致性和统一性。中国特色社会主义制度体系概念的提出并不是要在理论上替代中国特色社会主义法律体系、中国特色社会主义法治体系,而是通过进一步理顺法律体系、法治体系与制度体系之间的内在逻辑,凸显依法治国、依宪治国,依法执政、依宪执政在中国特色社会主义制度体系建设中的重要作用。既强调宪法和法律在中国特色社会主义制度体系中的地位和作用,又重视中国特色社会主义制度体系中各项具体制度的相对独立性。     

论违宪审查在东欧国家转型中的作用

东欧转型在法制方面的一项重要内容是普遍建立以宪法法院为审判机构的集中违宪审查制度。宪法法院通过对宪法文本中法治原则的阐释以实现国家转型的法治目标。宪法法院阐释的法治原则内容具体包括法的安定原则、分权原则、合比例原则、司法独立原则和基本权利司法救济保障原则等五项原则。     

预防性行政诉讼

现行行政诉讼法规定的事后救济型行政诉讼,常常无法排除或修复行政活动对原告造成的严重损害后果,导致原告合法权益得不到有效保护,直接威胁到行政诉讼救济的有效性和社会稳定与和谐。应尽快弥补这个法律缺失,建立以事前和事中救济为特征,旨在对抗威胁性行政行为和事实行为的预防性行政诉讼制度,真正实现权利有效保障。     

Riders on the Storm: Wales,the Union,and Territorial Constitutional Crisis

The United Kingdom continues to undergo a rapid process of constitutional change, with an ongoing redistribution of law‐making and governmental powers to different parts of the Union under an expanded rubric of ‘devolution'. This article illuminates a pervasive sense of territorial constitutional crisis and opportunity in the most recent period, familiarly associated with, but not confined to, Scotland. Constructive and flexible federal‐type responses inside a famously uncodified constitution are championed. Wales, commonly treated as a junior partner in the United Kingdom, presents special challenges for constitutional and legal analysis and distinctive perspectives on the Union which have not received the attention they deserve. In tackling this deficiency, the article elaborates a ‘new Union’ concept of a looser and less hierarchical set of constitutional arrangements in which several systems of parliamentary government are grounded in popular sovereignty and cooperate for mutual benefit.     

Less Democracy, More Courts: A Puzzle of Judicial Review in Russia

This article explores why, throughout the 1990s, some Russian regions created their own constitutional courts and others did not. Contrary to current theories that assert that politicians create a strong and independent judiciary to protect them from the tyranny of election-winners in the context of political uncertainty, my analysis finds that constitutional courts emerged only in those regions where governors virtually guaranteed their re-election by consolidating their political power vis-à-vis federal and local governments. The article argues that both federal and regional politicians used the process of creating subnational constitutional courts to legitimize their federalism and judicial reforms. The changes in the balance of power between those governors, who aspired to have their own judicial system, and the federal government that insisted on a single federal judicial system, determined the variation in the process of court-building across Russian regions.     

法律监督机关的宪法内涵

现行宪法关于"法律监督机关"(第134条)与"检察权"(第136条)之规定呈现出机关定位与权力定性的非对应性,此迥异于"一府一委两院"之其他国家机关,凸显了检察院的独特宪法地位,其蕴含的是法律监督机关的多重宪制功能。法律监督机关之宪法定位规约了检察权行使方式和检察制度的变革路径,检察权行使方式和检察制度的变革丰富了法律监督的内涵进而强化了法律监督机关的宪法定位。检察机关正是在这一良性互动中走上独具中国特色的实行法律监督之路。新时代法律监督机关应在其宪制功能与规范内涵指引下,全面维护国家法制统一,提升对行政权监督的质效,在法律监督新格局中切实捍卫社会的公平正义,进而推动中国特色社会主义检察制度行稳致远。     

宪法监督模式差异性的成因分析

人们通常将宪法监督模式在总体上划分为四种典型的类型,即立法机关监督型、司法机关监督型、宪法委员会监督型和宪法法院监督型。不同的国家之所以要选择不同的模式,存在着诸多方面的原因,如理论基础、法律传统、历史际遇、司法体制等。对宪法监督模式差异性的成因进行多角度的考察,对我国宪法监督制度的改革有着十分重要的意义。     

论宪法与区际法律冲突

本文通过分析宪法中的立法管辖权规范及其与区际法律冲突的关系 ,探讨了宪法与区际法律冲突之间的关系。此外 ,本文还着重讨论了中国的宪法 ,尤其是两部基本法 ,对区际法律冲突问题的影响。本文的结论强调 ,宪法在一定程度上决定了复合法域国家区际法律冲突的产生、范围及其解决途径。     

中国的检察改革

在建设社会主义法治国家的进程中 ,中国检察制度的宪政地位和法治价值是一个需要认真思考的问题。中国的检察权是法律监督权。检察机关的法律监督权具有法律性、程序性和事后性等特点 ,是对法律统一实施的最低限度标准的保障手段。中国检察制度的形成和发展有其独特的历史与现实基础 ,并且在法律理念和制度建构方面与欧洲大陆法国家检察制度具有较多的相通之处。司法改革中 ,应当立足于国家法治建设的全局和现实需要 ,进一步发展和落实检察机关的法律监督制度。为此 ,以检察权的拓展、约减和制约为中心 ,科学合理地配置检察权 ,以及改革检察官管理制度等内容应当成为中国检察制度改革的重要内容。     

合宪性推定的正当性

合宪性推定是宪法审查中一种重要方法。其最初起源于美国，尔后逐渐被德国、日本、澳大利亚等法治国所采用。国内目前对于合宪性推定方法的认识尚有不足，在一定程度上影响了宪法审查制度的有效运作。对于合宪性推定方法的借鉴，不在于简单移植，重点在于从一般原理的角度来探求其所存在的正当性基础。从人权价值、规范体系、经济理性等多角度对合宪性推定的正当性进行论证，可发现合宪性推定是一种原理性的宪法方法，根基于宪法的最高性、法官的经济理性、人权的目的性、国家权力的手段性等。合宪性推定的正当性论证，在折射出目前宪法方法的贫瘠的同时，也有助于摆脱宪法文本浪漫主义的方法论困境，进而体现出宪法方法兼具政治与法律的特性。     

Protecting the rights of the developmentally disabled: alternatives to the existing statutory and regulatory scheme.

The Developmentally Disabled Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 1975 and related HEW regulations require each state to establish a system for the protection and advocacy of the rights of developmentally disabled persons as a condition to receiving specified federal funds. This Note contends that, under the present statutory and regulatory scheme, states and governors have broad powers to interfere with the proper functioning of protection and advocacy systems. The Note examines the principal legal remedies, contractual and constitutional, presently available to parties interested in reducing or eliminating such interference, and concludes that such remedies are ineffectual. Instead, the author proposes, the HEW regulations should be revised to strengthen the autonomy of protection and advocacy systems or, alternatively, Congress should amend the 1975 Act to provide for federal administration of such systems.     

论单一制中国的财政联邦制——以中央与地方财政关系为视角

单一制与联邦制只不过是国家纵向权力配置模式的类型化。任何国家都存在集权或分权两种力的作用,中国便是一个带有联邦制因素的单一制国家。中国财政联邦制的发展与单一制国家结构框架内的体制多有抵牾,但中国财政联邦制的变革并不意味着宪政联邦制的确立。     

宪法解释案例实证问题研究

全国人大常委会法工委有关扩大宪法效力、公民选举权的行使、裁决立法冲突等宪法解释案例，尽管不是宪法规定的宪法解释，但其作用与正式的宪法解释并无实质性的差异，弥补了正式宪法解释缺位之不足而构成中国宪法解释的惯例。宪法上的宪法解释与现实中的宪法解释之间的距离，有助于认识和理解中国宪法之外的宪法解释机关对宪法进行解释的实际情况，以及宪法实施过程的特点。     

Confucian Constitutionalism? The Emergence of Constitutional Review in Korea and Taiwan

This paper documents the recent emergence of constitutional review of legislative and administrative action in Korea and Taiwan, two East Asian countries seen to be historically resistant to notions of judicial activism and constitutional constraint. It argues that the ability to draw from foreign legal traditions, especially those of the United States and Germany, empowered judges in these countries and therefore helped to alter the structure of public law away from executive-centered approaches of the past. This is consistent with viewing judicial review as essentially a foreign transplant. Nevertheless, the institution of judicial review has some compatibilities with Confucian legal tradition, a point that has implications for how we think about institutional transfers across borders. By constructing a locally legitimate account of what is undeniably a modern institution of foreign origin, the paper argues that constitutional constraint should not be viewed as an imposition of Western norms, but as a more complex process of adaptation and institutional transformation.     

宪法“人格尊严”条款的规范地位之辨

规范地位是指某一条款在基本权利内部乃至宪法规范体系中的效力,取决于该条款在特定宪法秩序中的法律属性。尊严条款因其法理基础、宪法文本表述及宪法解释实践的差异在各国宪法上享有不同的地位,归纳起来可分为宪法原则、基础价值、规定功能的宪法概念。我国宪法第38条人格尊严的哲学基础不同于其他国家的人是目的、人格发展、交往理论,而是着重于个人的名誉与荣誉保护;宪法文本表述并非人的尊严、人性尊严,而是人格尊严,且该条既未规定在总纲中,亦未置于"公民的基本权利和义务"一章之首,即使与"国家尊重与保护人权"一款结合起来阅读,亦无法取得与其它国家宪法上的规范地位。人格尊严在我国宪法上属于独立条款,也是公民的一项基本权利,具有具体的法律内容,在宪法解释过程中可作为规范与特定宪法事实相涵摄,证明公民的人格尊严受到了侵犯。     

法国宪法实践中对国际条约的合宪性审查

设立宪法委员会实施合宪性审查是法国1958年宪法的一大突破,其中对于国际条约的合宪性进行审查更是宪法委员会实践中的亮点之一。在欧洲一体化进程加快的形势下,作为国内的合宪性审查机构,如何实施对于国际法文件,特别是欧盟法律文件的合宪性审查是宪法委员会面临的重大难题,宪法委员会在这个方面既表现出了一定的创造性,更表现出了相当大的自我约束,这在一定程度上发展了法国的宪法制度,但也反映出其对于宪法难题的回避。