Модели вторичной конституционализации в российской политической системе

Конституционное и муниципальное право. 2016. Т. 6. С. 34–42.

Smirnova M., Торнхилл К.

         This article is part of the project ‘A Sociology of the Transnational Constitution’, carried out at the University of Manchester under the supervision of Professor Christopher Thornhill. The article describes characteristics of the material constitution in Russia as a unique model of legal accountability of public authorities in the context of secondary constitutionalization. Throughout examination of the four main manifestations of the process of secondary constitutionalization in Russia, the paper argues that because this process is driven by legal actors, the Russian political system is evolving in a rather asymmetrical manner. Thus, despite the relatively low level of political accountability of public authorities, the Russian political system is marked by a rather progressive form of legal accountability. The process of secondary constitutionalization is characterized by strong authority of international law, large-scale judicial control over the actions and decisions of public authorities, high level of litigation and transformation of the language of litigation and legal reasoning due to openness of the legal system to international law.

Keywords: судебная система РФ, национальное и международное право прав человека, secondary constitutionalisation, Russian judiciary, вторичная конституционализация