.jpg)
printAmendments to Russian Constitution and International Institutions Decisions:
EAEU Prospective
Verlaine M.,
Ph.D. in Economics and Management (Ecole nationale des Arts et Métiers, ENSAM, Paris), Associate Professor, Economics and Finance Department, ICN Business School, michel.verlaine@icn-artem.com
ORCID: 0000-0001-6269-5336 |Shashkova A.V.,
Professor, Constitutional Law Department, MGIMO University, a.shashkova@inno.mgimo.ru
elibrary_id: 479023 |
Kudryashova E.V.,
LLM – King’s College London, Dr. Sci. (Law), Leading Researcher, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of Russian Federation, ev_kudryashova@inbox.ru
elibrary_id: 358757 |
DOI: 10.17976/jpps/2020.05.12
Rubric: Orbis terrarum
For citation:
Verlaine M., Shashkova A.V., Kudryashova E.V. Amendments to Russian Constitution and International Institutions Decisions: EAEU Prospective. – Polis. Political Studies. 2020. No. 5. https://doi.org/10.17976/jpps/2020.05.12
Abstract
The constitutional reforms in Russia are amongst the most significant news for Russia’s partners in international relations. The configuration of international law and Russian domestic legal order falls within the scope of the constitutional changes of 2020, and there is no chance that this change will be abandoned by the legislator. This particular amendment was not actively commented on during the nationwide discussion on the constitutional reform; it drew mostly experts’ attention. The article alleges that the constitutional amendment restricting the applicability of international case law in Russia is both a transient response to the instant political tension around Russia, and a formalization of the positivistic trend well established in domestic judicial practice. The positivistic trend is part of the process shaping Russia’s own approach to international law. The prospective amendment concerning international case law in the Constitution of the Russian Federation will not hinder the rules expressly stated in the treaties of the EAEU. However, the resolutions of the EAEU’s structures and institutions, including the case law of the Court of the EAEU, are likely to be scrutinized in a defensive way by Russian Constitutional court in situations extraordinary for the Russian State, ensuring their conformity with the unquestionable and unconditional supremacy of the Russian Constitution.
Keywords
EAEU, international law, international case law, constitutionalism, constitution of Russia, Eurasian integration.
References
Abashidze A.Kh., Ilyashevich M.V., Solntsev A.M. 2017. Anchugov & Gladkov v. Russia. – American Journal of International Law. Vol. 111. No. 2. P. 461-468. https://doi.org/10.1017/ajil.2017.31
Chimni B.S. 2006. Third World Approaches to International Law: A Manifesto. – International Community Law Review. No. 8. P. 3-27. https://doi.org/10.1163/187197306779173220
Chirkin V.E. 2016 International, Supranational (Supra-Statal) and Constitutional Law: the dialectic of Comparative Interaction. – Journal of Comparative Law. Vol. 11. No. 1. P. 124-135.
Crawford J. 2014. Chance, Order, Change: the course of international law. General Course on Public International Law.
Damrosch L.F. 1991. International Human Rights Law in Soviet and American Courts. – The Yale Law Journal. Vol. 100. No. 8. P. 2315-2334. https://doi.org/10.2307/796895
Diyachenko E., Entin K. 2017. The Court of the Eurasian Economic Union: Challenges and Perspectives. – Russian Law Journal. Vol. 5 No. 2. P. 53-74. https://doi.org/10.17589/2309-8678-2017-5-2-53-74
Entin M.L., Entina E.G. 2017. The Impact of Human Rights Law on the Progressive Development of Contemporary International Law. Part I. – Moscow Journal of International Law. No. 2. P. 29-44.
Hanqin X. 2011. Chinese Contemporary Perspective on International Law: History, Culture and International Law. The Hague Academy of international law Collected Courses. Vol. 355 P. 41-234
Kalinichenko P. 2018. The constitutional order of the Russian Federation and its adaptability to European and Eurasian integration project. – Post-Soviet Constitutions and Challenges of Regional Integration. Adapting to European and Eurasian Integration Projects. Ed. by Petrov R., Van Elsuwege P. London: Routledge. P. 168-177. https://doi.org/10.17589/2309-8678-2019-7-3-107-133
Kalinichenko P., Petrov R., Karliuk M. 2019. International Law in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus: Modern Integration Project. – Russian Law Journal. Vol. 7. No. 3. P. 107-133.
Koroteev K., Golubok S. 2007. Judgement of the Russian Constitutional Court on Supervisory Review in Civil Proceedings: Denial Justice, Denial of Europe. – Human Rights Law Review. Vol. 7. No. 4. P. 619-632. https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngm018
Malksoo L. 2015. Russian Approaches to International law. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Orlova A.V. 2018. Sovereignty, Dissent, and the Shaping of International Consensus Around Human Rights: An Examination of Russian Disengagement from the European Court of Human Rights. – Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law. Vol. 35. No. 3. P. 435-468.
Oxman H.B. 2010. Idealism and the Study of International Law. Inaugural Lecture. Public International Law Session. Brill.
Shashkova A.V., Polovchenko K.A., Volevodz A.G. 2019. Questioning State Corporations as Special Forms of Legal Entities. – International Journal of Economics & Business Administration. Vol. 7. No. 1. P. 186-203. https://doi.org/10.35808/ijeba/263
Shashkova A., Verlaine M., Kudryashova E. 2020. On Modif ications to the Constitution
of the Russian Federation in 2020. – Russian Law Journal. Vol. 8. No. 1. P. 60-83. https://doi.org/10.17589/2309-8678-2020-8-1-60-83
Shokhin S., Kudryashova E. 2019. Macroeconomic Coordination in the Eurasian Economic Union: Strategic Aspects. – Russian Law Journal. Vol. 7. No. 3. P. 38-52. https://doi.org/10.17589/2309-8678-2019-7-3-38-52
Chernichenko S.V. 2018. The European Court on Human Rights: The Problem of Unenforceable Judgements. – Moscow Journal of International Law. No. 3. P. 6-17. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24833/0869-0049-2018-3-6-17
Content No. 5, 2020
See also:
Troitskaya O.V.,
Right of Nations to Self-Determination: Evolution of Concept and Practices. – Polis. Political Studies. 2015. No6
Pastukhov V.B.,
The demon of law. Russian law as escaping reality. – Polis. Political Studies. 2011. No2
Chabot J.-L.,
Constitution and Constitutionalism (Analysis of the Terms). – Polis. Political Studies. 1998. No6
Habermas J.,
Religion, law and politics. – On political justice in a multicultural World-Society. – Polis. Political Studies. 2010. No2
Pastukhov V.B.,
At the constitutional threshold. challenges and answers of the russian constitutionalism. – Polis. Political Studies. 2013. No1
.jpg)
.jpg)