Referrals to National Constitutional Courts: Examining the Reasons Why Ordinary Court Judges Refer

• In Event: Constitutions and the Protection of Democratic Rights

Brief Overview

In this paper we examine the referral process at the national level, using data from the German Constitutional Court to test different theories of why lower ordinary courts refer cases to their national constitutional courts.

Authors

• Benjamin Bricker, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale

• Dachi Mazanashvili, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale