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Judging Russia
The Role of the Constitutional Court in Russian Politics 1990–2006

This book is about the origins, the functioning, and the impact of the Russian Constitutional Court.

Alexei Trochev (Author)

9780521887434, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 28 April 2008

384 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.68 kg

Review of the hardback: 'Alexei Trochev is ideally qualified to write this magnificent and highly important book. This will be required reading not only for those interested in public law and constitutional adjudication, but also anyone wishing to gain an understanding of contemporary Russia.' Bill Bowring, Journal of Law and Society

This is a study of the actual role that the Russian Constitutional Court played in protecting fundamental rights and resolving legislative-executive struggles and federalism disputes in both Yeltsin's and Putin's Russia. Trochev argues that judicial empowerment is a non-linear process with unintended consequences and that courts that depend on their reputation flourish only if an effective and capable state is there to support them. This is because judges can rely only on the authoritativeness of their judgments, unlike politicians and bureaucrats, who have the material resources necessary to respond to judicial decisions. Drawing upon systematic analysis of all decisions of the Russian Court (published and unpublished) and previously unavailable materials on their (non-)implementation, and resting on a combination of the approaches from comparative politics, law, and public administration, this book shows how and why judges attempted to reform Russia's governance and fought to ensure compliance with their judgments.

1. Introduction: three puzzles of post-communist judicial empowerment
2. Non-linear judicial empowerment
3. Making and re-making constitutional review Russian-style
4. The Russian constitutional review in action (1990–3)
5. Decision-making of the 2nd Russian constitutional court: 1995–2006
6. The constitutional court has ruled … what next?
7. The 2nd Russian constitutional court (1995–2007): problematique of implementation
8. 'Tinkering' with judicial tenure and 'wars of courts' in comparative perspective.

Subject Areas: Laws of Specific jurisdictions [LN], Comparative law [LAM]

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