Doctrinal approaches to the definition of the concept of «reception» in constitutional law
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https://doi.org/10.31548/law2020.03.003Abstract
The article covers the analysis of the main doctrinal approaches to the definition of the concept of reception in constitutional law. The issue of reception in the constitutional law of Ukraine in modern conditions of state formation is quite pressing and has a range of both theoretical and praxeological search, especially in the process of qualitative change of the paradigm of constitutionalism, which is being currently formed in the convergence of modern legal systems and realization of the world strategy of vitality in the face of global challengesfor mankind.
The study of reception as a constitutional and legal phenomenon and process will allow determining the prospects for the development of Ukrainian statehood in the context of globalization and eurointegration.
The purpose of the article is to analyze the main doctrinal approaches to defining the concept of reception in constitutional law and to formulate the concept of this legal category as a constitutional and legal phenomenon and process.
It is emphasized that the main prerequisites and reasons for the importance and necessity of reception in the constitutional law of Ukraine are: 1) the convergence of modern legal systems and the formation of the concept of global constitutionalism require the universalization of constitutional values; 2) the development of social relations, scientific and technological progress, biomedical technologies creates gaps in the constitutional and legal regulation, because the realities, in relation to which the constitutional law remains indifferent,appear (e.g., digital rights, the right to gender identity, to cloning , to surrogacy, etc.); 3) European legal integration as a foreign policy vector for the development of Ukrainian statehood, stipulates the adoption of EU law (including constitutional law) by the national system of legislation of Ukraine; 4) global threats (climate change, pandemics, nuclear weapons, etc.) require changing the vector of constitutional development and consolidating the international community in order to counteractthem. In view of the above, the issue of the need to develop an effective concept for the implementation of the reception as a constitutional and legal phenomenon and to optimize the process of its implementation,considering feasibility and necessity.
In conclusion, the author notes that the understanding of reception in constitutional law solely as borrowing or textual transfer would contribute to a one-sided interpretation of this legal category, and therefore proposes to define reception in constitutional law as a constitutional and legal phenomenon and the process of legal interaction between states, encompassing the possibility of or the need for the introduction and assimilation of the foreign legal material (or an international rule) by the national system of constitutional law in order to modernize and develop it.
Keywords: reception in constitutional law, constitutionalism, constitutional law, convergence, borrowing, adaptation, harmonization, eurointegration
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