Judicial law-making in European constitutional courts

Introduction / Monika Florczak-Wątor -- The French Constitutional Council as a Law-Maker : Relations Between the Council and the Legislator : From Dialogue to Rewriting? / Julien Mouchette -- The Law-Making Activity of the German Federal Constitutional Court : A Case-Law Study / Ruth Weber -- The Law-Making Power of the Constitutional Court of Italy / Nausica Palazzo -- The Spanish Constitutional Court as a Law-Maker : Functioning and Practice / Covadonga Ferrer Martín de Vidales -- The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Bulgaria as a Law-Maker / Martin Belov, Aleksandar Tsekov -- The Law-Making Activity of the Czech Constitutional Court / Jan Malíř, Jana Ondřejková -- The Hungarian Constitutional Court as a Law-Maker : Various Tools and Changing Roles / Zoltán Pozsár-Szentmiklósy -- The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Latvia as a Law-Maker : Current Practice / Anita Rodiņa, Alla Spale -- The Law-Making Activity of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal / Piotr Czarny, Bogumił Naleziński -- The Many Faces of Law-Making by Constitutional Courts with Extensive Review Powers : The Slovak Case / Ján Štiavnický, Max Steuer -- The Court of Justice of the European Union as a Law-Maker: Enhancing Integration or Acting Ultra Vires? / Monika Kawczyńska -- The European Court of Human Rights and the Creation of Law through the Case-law / Krzysztof Wojtyczek -- European Constitutional Courts as Law-Makers : Research Synthesis / Monika Florczak-Wątor

"This book analyses the specificity of the law-making activity of European constitutional courts. The main hypothesis is that currently constitutional courts are positive legislators whose position in the system of State organs needs to be redefined"--