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Changes to Selection and
Appointment of Constitutional Court Judges in Slovakia
Šimon Drugda, PhD.,
University of Copenhagen, Centre for European and Comparative Legal Studies (CECS),
Denmark
Právny obzor, 102, 2019, special issue, pp.
14-33.
Published online: 15.1.2020
Abstract. This article examines changes to the selection
and appointment of judges to the Slovak Constitutional Court. One year before a
scheduled replacement of nine judges of the Court in 2019, the Slovak government
introduced constitutional and legislative reforms of the appointment process.
The leitmotif of the proposed reform was an effort to qualitatively improve the
appointment process at the point of selection, as well as to increase the amount
of publicly available information about candidates. Ultimately, the Slovak
government only succeeded in implementing legislative reforms of the selection
process, while the constitutional amendment did not receive parliamentary
approval.
Keywords: judicial appointment,
constitutional court, eligibility requirements, court composition, selection
hearings
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ISSN 2729-9228
(online)
ISSN 0032-6984
(print)
THEORETICAL REVIEW FOR ISSUES OF STATE AND LAW.
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