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Title

Notion, fundamental prerequisites, and factors of constitutionalization of the Russian judicial system

Authors

Kruss Vladimir Ivanovich

PhD Law, Professor, Head of the Department of the Theory of Law, Tver State University. 33, Zhelyabova Str., Tver, 17100, Russia. E-mail: t-prava@yandex.ru

Kuzmin Andrey Georgievich

Cand. Sc. Law, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law, South Ural State University (National Research University). 76, Lenin Av., Chelyabinsk, 454080, Russia. E-mail: akuzmin@chelarbitr.ru

Section

Constitution, state and sociiety

Issue

3/2014

Page

27-38

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342.4 (470) + 347.9 (470)

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Abstract

The article considers one of the main components of the process of reformation of the legal system of the Russian Federation – constitutionalization (constitutional modernization) of the Russian judicial system. In connection with this the problem of correspondence of constitutionalism and constitutionalization of law. The author considers the resumptive analysis of the usage of the notion ‘constitutionalization’ in the context of amendments and changes which the international public law undergoes; he also dwells on the interconnection of the notions ‘constitutionalization’ and ‘constitutional legitimacy’ and suggests conceptual definition of constitutionalization of judicial system.

Keywords

constitutionalism, constitutional legitimacy, judicial system, constitutionalization of judicial system.

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