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<p>The study is divided in two major parts. First, a presentation of the history of the Greek legal order and the organization of the judicial system with a focus on the judicial system of control of constitutionality highlights the legal culture regarding the use of foreign precedents in constitutional cases, describes the complexities regarding the exercise of control of constitutionality, and justifies the reasons that the constitutional case law of the Council of State (CoS) is selected for quantitative measurement. Second, the study analyses from a quantitative and qualitative perspective the results of the measurement of the number of explicit citations in foreign precedents in the constitutional cases of the CoS. It is worth noting that the majority of the citations in German case law refer to the case law of the <italic>Existenzminimum</italic>, a finding that is being approached from a qualitative perspective too.</p>
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The study is divided in two major parts. First, a presentation of the history of the Greek legal order and the organization of the judicial system with a focus on the judicial system of control of constitutionality highlights the legal culture regarding the use of foreign precedents in constitutional cases, describes the complexities regarding the exercise of control of constitutionality, and justifies the reasons that the constitutional case law of the Council of State (CoS) is selected for quantitative measurement. Second, the study analyses from a quantitative and qualitative perspective the results of the measurement of the number of explicit citations in foreign precedents in the constitutional cases of the CoS. It is worth noting that the majority of the citations in German case law refer to the case law of the Existenzminimum, a finding that is being approached from a qualitative perspective too.

The adoption of foreign case law by the Greek courts and the emergence of the <italic>Existenzminimum</italic> doctrine by numbers - Between constitutional interpretation and legitimacy

Balkan Journal of Interdisciplinary Research

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The adoption of foreign case law by the Greek courts and the emergence of the  doctrine by numbers - Between constitutional interpretation and legitimacy

The study is divided in two major parts. First, a presentation of the history of the Greek legal order and the organization of the judicial system with a focus...

The adoption of foreign case law by the Greek courts and the emergence of the Existenzminimum doctrine by numbers - Between constitutional interpretation and legitimacy

Data publikacji: 20 maj 2024

Zakres stron: 1 - 20

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bjir-2024-0001

Słowa kluczowe
decent living, control of constitutionality, foreign precedents

© 2024 Styliani Stella Christoforidou, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

The adoption of foreign case law by the Greek courts and the emergence of the Existenzminimum doctrine by numbers - Between constitutional interpretation and legitimacy

Data publikacji: 20 maj 2024

Zakres stron: 1 - 20

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bjir-2024-0001

Słowa kluczowedecent living, control of constitutionality, foreign precedents

© 2024 Styliani Stella Christoforidou, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Słowa kluczowe
decent living, control of constitutionality, foreign precedents