Dissenting Opinion of Justice of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine M.A. Markush Regarding the Decision of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine No. 8-rp of March 11, 2010 (Case of Cassation Review Procedure)

The large-scale reform of the MVD associated with the creation of the new institution of the police is proceeding in accordance with the special law "On the Police."     

Between Procedural Impermeability and Constitutional Openness: The Italian Constitutional Court and Preliminary References to the European Court of Justice

On 15 April 2008, the Italian Constitutional Court (ICC) raised for the first time a preliminary question to the European Court of Justice (ECJ). This decision (see judgment No 102/2008 and order No 103/2008) represented a turning point in the ICC's case‐law, and calls for a careful assessment of the motives backing such revirement as well as of the legal reasoning that the Italian judges used to wrap it up without repudiating their previous case‐law. In addition to this preliminary analysis, the aim of this essay is to explore two themes: i) the developments of the ICC's case‐law as regards the role of Community Law and the ECJ, and ii) the appraisal of the interplay between the ICC and the ECJ in the light of the notion of ‘interpretive competition’.     

German Constitutional Law in the UK Supreme Court

Liverpool Law Review - The outgoing tide of EU law will be Britain’s most significant constitutional change in recent times. In an era of uncertainties, the UK Supreme Court proved to be a...     

Dissenting Opinion of Justice of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine V. M. Kampo Regarding the Decision of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine No. 14-rp of June 10, 2009 (Case of Canceling Preterm Elections in Ternopil' Oblast)

There is no question that the 2004 constitutional reform was not completed. Even the method of conducting it created a regime of semilegitimacy in the country. Obviously, the reform should have been continued, expanding the powers of local self-government and reducing the functions of the local state administrations. But this did not happen, primarily because the initiators of the constitutional reform, no matter who it was—Yushchenko, Tymoshenko, or the Party of Regions—were trying to carry out the reform not in order to increase the effectiveness of the governance mechanism, but to obtain the maximum preferences of power for their own dear selves.     

Dissenting Opinion of Justice of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine S.L. Vdovichenko Regarding the Decision of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine No. 34-rp of December 22, 2009 (Case of the Appointment of Judges to Administrative Positions)

Rashid Nurgaliyev, Russia's minister of internal affairs, explains the difficulties of reforming the police in Russia.     

Dissenting Opinion of Justice of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine P. B. Stetsiuk Regarding the Decision of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine No. 11-rp of April 6, 2010 (Case of Individual Members of Parliament Joining a Parliamentary Coalition)

Medvedev shows a striving to broaden his team to include regional generals of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, positioning himself as a viable president.