Study on the institutional structure and modern transformations of the European type of constitutional review

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24530023
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Public law
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: SOGABE Masahiro 京都大学, 法学(政治学)研究科(研究院), 教授 (80362549)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): TAJIKA Hajime 岡山大学, 法務研究科, 教授 (20362949) ; INOUE Takeshi 九州大学, 法学研究院, 准教授 (40432405) ; OKUMURA Kosuke 駒澤大学, 法学部, 准教授 (40551495) ; PEDRIZA Luis 大阪大学, 法学研究科, 准教授 (60511988)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: イタリア憲法裁判所 / スペイン憲法裁判所 / フランス憲法院 / ベルギー憲法裁判所 / 憲法裁判 / 民主的正統性

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this study we have concluded a joint research on the institutional structure as well as the modern transformations of the system of constitutional review in France, Italy, Spain and Belgium. Under the European model, constitutional control is vested upon a specialized court, namely a constitutional court. The methodology followed consisted in a series of workshops and seminars by the project members, also making room for external researchers to deliver presentations so as to broaden the scope of our inquiry. Field survey was also conducted.
Notwithstanding the disparities observed between the surveyed countries, we have been able to shed light upon some particular features that exist in most constitutional courts, regarding inter alia their functional requirements of democratic legitimacy, their proper relationship with ordinary courts, and their role within federal systems; all of them contrasting when compared to the incidenter style of constitutional review that obtains in Japan.

Free Research Field

憲法