The constitution of Romania : a contextual analysis / Bianca Selejan-Gutan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Selejan-Guţan, Bianca, 1973- author.

Series:

Constitutional systems of the world.

Constitutional systems of the world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Constitutional law--Romania.

Constitutional law.

Constitutional history--Romania.

Constitutional history.

Romania. Constituţia (1991).

Romania.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 pages) : illustrations.

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London, England : Hart Publishing, 2020.

Summary:

"In December 1989, Romania became the last Eastern European communist country to break with its communist dictatorship, the most powerful in the region at the time. It has struggled ever since to overcome the transition to democracy and to become a 'full-time' member of the Western democratic community of states. This book provides a contextual analysis of the Romanian constitutional system, with references to the country's troubled constitutional history and to the way in which legal transplantation has been used. The Constitution's grey areas, as well as the gap between the written constitution and the living one, will also be explained through the prism of recent events that cast a negative shadow upon the democratic nature of the Romanian constitutional system. The first chapters present a brief historical overview and an introduction to Romanian constitutional culture, as well as to the principles and general features of the 1991 Constitution. The chapters which follow explain the functioning of the institutions and their interrelations-Parliament, the President, the Government and the courts. The Constitutional Court has a special place in the book, as do local government and the protection of fundamental rights. The last chapter refers to the mechanisms and challenges of constitutional change and development."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Introduction and historical overview

The Romanian Parliament

The dual executive and the avatars of Romanian semi-presidentialism

Local government

The constitutional court, constitutional aspects of the judicial system

Constitutional protection of fundamental rights

The process of constitutional change : mechanisms, limits and future developments.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781782259565

1782259562

9781782259589

1782259589

OCLC:

1201426529