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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]

Constitutional Remedies

Leonardo Álvarez Álvarez

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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]
Article last updated:
November 2020

From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 11 December 2024

Subject(s):
Justice — Administration of justice

General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
Managing Editor: Martina Mantovani

1 The concept of constitutional remedies is directly linked to judicial reviews. In a strict sense, the term judicial review refers to the function attributed to judicial bodies ensuring that laws abide by the constitution—judicial review of legislation. From this arise the two classic models of judicial review: a) the United States (‘US’) model in Marbury v Madison Case (US) (1803); and b) the European model in the thinking of the Austrian writer Hans Kelsen (Kelsen (1928)), realized in the Federal Constitutional Law of Austria: 1 October 1920 (as Amended to...
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