The current issue of the Constitutional Court Review intends to provide an opportunity to publish certain studies completed in 2025 in the framework of the Comparative Constitutional Law Research Group.
The Comparative Constitutional Law Research Group, established at the National University of Public Service in 2023, aims to enable researchers to use the European Constitutional Communication Network (ECCN)… Tovább
The constitutional protection of property has been continuously shaped by the 35 years of practice of the Constitutional Court. Initially, the Constitutional Court had to clarify whether the right to property could be considered a fundamental right at all. In its later practice, the Constitutional Court focused on defining the scope of constitutional protection of property, in the context of which it … Tovább
With its Decision 5/2025. (VI. 30.) AB of the Constitutional Court of Hungary, the so-called ‘climate decision’ (klímahatározat), the Hungarian Constitutional Court joined the camp of national (and international) courts that have formulated a forward-looking legal position in relation to the protection of the climate: the climate decision goes beyond the principle of non-retrogression (non-regression,… Tovább
The purpose of this article is to present the legal protection of detainees provided by constitutional courts in relation to fundamental rights enforced during the execution of criminal sentences. The research is based on certain decisions of the Hungarian Constitutional Court and the Italian Constitutional Court in the field of penitentiary law. The paper first examines the constitutional normative… Tovább
This study, through an examination of thirty-five years of case law, demonstrates that the Hungarian Constitutional Court intervenes in internal parliamentary affairs only in instances of clear and direct constitutional violations. The analysis then places this approach in a comparative perspective by showing that the European Court of Human Rights has increasingly recognized parliamentary autonomy… Tovább
The Fundamental Law brought about a significant change in the powers of the Hungarian Constitutional Court with the introduction of the constitutional complaint against judicial decisions. While the Constitutional Court was previously only able to conduct a narrow review of the application of the law within the framework of ex post (abstract) norm control aimed at the objective protection of the constitutional… Tovább