Международное право прав человека в координатах конституционного правосудия (актуализация проблематики)

Международное правосудие. 2026. № 1(57). С. 141–163.

Blokhin P. D.

In the present article, the author resumes the discussion initiated by Professor T. G. Morshchakova, Doctor of Law, in her article “Doctrine background of implementing international standards of rights and freedoms by means of constitutional justice” (2008), dedicated to the place of international law principles and norms in the mechanism of constitutional justice. The introduction substantiates the  urgent need to update this issue in light of the geopolitical and regulatory changes that have taken place over the last decade. The paper offrs four plausible interpretations of which established categories of public international law may correspond to Article 15 (Part 4) of the Russian Constitution, which introduces the concept of “generally recognized principles and norms of international law” yet employs this terminology inconsistently in its other provisions. Simultaneously, the author presents his own view on the forms (and for what purposes) universal and regional international human rights treaties — including those not legally binding on the Russian Federation — may be utilized by the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. Particular attention is paid to the specifi procedure and the exact date of the termination of Russia’s participation in the Council of Europe and the European Convention on Human Rights, as well as the resulting legal consequences for constitutional justice. Furthermore, the author suggests that Convention law may exert an inertial inflence on
Russian constitutional law through certain related judicial methods of interpreting fundamental rights, namely autonomous and evolutive interpretation. In conclusion, the author summarizes the study of these four interrelated issues of interaction between international and constitutional law and suggests promising directions for further research, specifially regarding the role of so-called “soft law” in constitutional judicial practice.

Keywords: конституционное правосудие, международные договоры, императивные нормы, основные принципы международного права, constitutional justice, европейская конвенция, the European Convention, общие принципы права, general principles of law, international treaties, international legal customs, fundamental principles of international law, peremptory norms, международные обычаи