Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the jurisprudence of Constitutional Tribunal

This paper problematises the role of Universal Declaration of Human Rights with regard to assessing the compliance of a given normative act with the constitutional paradigm of control. It presents the analysis of the legal status of the international legal act in question together with the jurisprudence of Constitutional Tribunal in the scope covered by the discussion. The focus is on Universal Declaration of Human Rights, considered in the context of confirmation, strengthening and extending the constitutional standards. The core thesis posed in the analysis was that Universal Declaration of Human Rights is an essential tool of assessing the constitutional character of the legislation passed in the Republic of Poland. The methodology used in the analysis drew from legal dogmatics and theory of law.