Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.30925/zpfsr.45.3.1
A Critical Analysis of Guastini's Understanding of the Constitutional Rights Conflicts and the Balancing Technique
Luka Burazin
orcid.org/0000-0002-2437-8871
; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law
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Marin Keršić
; University of Split, Faculty of Law
* Corresponding author.
Abstract
The paper discusses constitutional rights conflicts and examines balancing as the best known and most widespread technique for resolving such conflicts. It provides a critical analysis of how Riccardo Guastini, the main representative of the Genoese school of legal realism, understands constitutional rights conflicts and balancing. The paper aims to answer four main questions. First, what is the nature of constitutional rights conflicts? Second, how does balancing differ from Guastini’s version of the lex specialis criterion as a possible alternative method for resolving constitutional rights conflicts? Third, what is the function of balancing in judicial reasoning? And fourth, according to Guastini, what makes balancing an act of legal construction?
Keywords
balancing; antinomies; constitutional rights; criterion of specialty; judicial reasoning
Hrčak ID:
323539
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Publication date:
15.12.2024.
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