TFL Vsebine / Revija Revus

Dejstvo je, da ustavna sodišča danes ustvarjajo pravo. Ta korpus prava, ki izhaja iz nenehnega ustavnosodnega preverjanja dejanj vseh treh vej oblasti, ima vsaj z vidika človekovih pravic veliko skupnega s postopkovnim in vsebinskim ustvarjanjem sodne prakse na Evropskem sodišču za človekove pravice. Čeprav to sodišče odloča tudi in abstracto, vendarle ustvarja odločitve inter partes, ki imajo na koncu neizbežno vsaj stvarni učinek erga omnes. Sodna praksa tako predstavlja levji delež sodobnega ustavnega prava. Evropa pa ima v Strasbourgu vsaj zadnjih štirideset let svoje ustavno sodišče.

It is a fact that constitutional courts today produce law. This corpus of law, derived from continuous judicial review of the activities of all three branches of power, in so far as human rights are concerned, has much in common with the procedures and the substance of the case-law fashioned by the European Court of Human Rights. The court, while also deciding in abstracto, produces an inter partes decision which, in the end, inevitably has at least a de facto erga omnes effect. Case law now represents the lion’s share of modern constitutional law. It is again an empirical fact that Europe has had in Strasbourg, for the last forty years, its own constitutional court.