الرافدین للحقوق (Jun 2024)

The approach followed in monitoring the constitutionality of laws in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the Republic of Iraq

  • Ayman Al Batoosh

DOI
https://doi.org/10.33899/arlj.2024.141106.1301
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 26, no. 87
pp. 358 – 385

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AbstractThe research includes a study of the approach followed in monitoring the constitutionality of laws in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the Republic of Iraq, by explaining the types of oversight of the constitutionality of laws, represented by judicial oversight and political oversight, and explaining the Jordanian Supreme Court’s oversight of the constitutionality of laws, the legal powers granted to it, and oversight of The constitutionality of laws from the Jordanian Constitutional Court, which was established pursuant to the constitutional amendments of 2011, based on Article (58) of the Jordanian Constitution, which led to the transfer of oversight from decentralized and indirect oversight by way of subsidiary payment to direct central oversight And the approach followed in monitoring the constitutionality of laws in the Republic of Iraq, which is a product of the post-2003 phase, as the Iraqi constitutions stipulated the establishment of courts whose mission is to monitor the constitutionality of laws and interpret the texts of the constitution, represented by the Basic Law issued in 1925, and the 1968 Constitution, which mentioned the establishment of the court. Supreme Constitutional.

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