Disciplinary Liability of a Judge of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal

The essence of the article is to present the concept, function and principles of disciplinary liability and the mode of disciplinary proceedings against judges of the Constitutional Tribunal in the context of the ongoing dispute over the independence of each of these constitutional state organs. Disciplinary liability arose from sources of repressive liability and is a special type of criminal liability due to the functions it performs, but also a high degree of ailment. The author argues that despite numerous legal provisions, the model of conduct has not changed, as well as are based on misunderstood axiology, bypassing the principle of nemo iudex in causa sua. I propose, in accordance with the principle of objectivity (impartiality), to submit only disciplinary judges of the Constitutional Tribunal to the Supreme Court for consideration with the simultaneous adoption of an identical mutual principle with respect to judges of the Supreme Court.

In Search of a Systemic Model for Controlling the Law’s Compliance with the Constitution During the Period of the Second Republic of Polish

Searching a coherent model of the systemic control of the compliance of statutory law with the constitution was an arduous process conducted by theoreticians of law throughout the entire period of forming the system of the Second Polish Republic. The statements which seemed to be correct in the opinion of recognized legal authorities, were not – apart from a few exceptions that overcame the general aversion to such views – adopted by the legislator during the revision of the March constitution. What is more, the control of the constitutionality of the law was not accepted during the work on the April constitution. The reason for that was its ideological conditions, based on the concept of the President’s authoritarian supreme power in terms of state system, which did not allow for appointing a body responsible for examining the compliance of the acts of law with the constitution.

Establishing the Right to Abortion in the Constitutional Principles of Privacy, Equality and Freedom in the US and the Arguments of the Constitutional Tribunal of October 22, 2020

The U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling was pivotal in American women’s fight for the right to abortion. It was based on the constitutional principle of the right to privacy and was criticized that it would be more appropriate to base it on the principle of equality. The aim of the article is to compare the way in which the U.S. Supreme Court rulings legalizing abortion have been argued with the Polish Constitutional Tribunal’s 2020 ruling limiting the already restrictive right to abortion. The article analyzes the judgment of the Constitutional Tribunal and presents its potential effects in terms of women’s rights, gender equality and freedom. In its conclusion, the article points to possible legal solutions to the abortion dilemma and addresses the issue of gender discrimination.