Sentences with phrase «approach on constitutional issues»

Not exact matches

For instance, the Venice Commission, an organ of the Council of Europe whose purpose is to provide legal advice in the field on constitutional law, issued an Opinion no. 523/2009 on the retroactivity of statutes of limitations, making clear that other approaches were possible.

In the following post, I briefly develop both aspects of this equation — pragmatism with regard to the scope of the CFSP versus principle with regard to the reach of EU constitutional principles into the CFSP — and I conclude with a brief reflection on the normative issue of whether the Court stays within its role as a judicial body, where I suggest the CJEU's approach fits squarely within its duty to say what the law is.

In justifying this approach, the court pointed to several considerations that SCOTUS identified as benefits to merits - first: the importance and frequency of the constitutional issue, the need of police departments for guidance on the issue, the purely legal, non-fact-bound nature of the issue, and the quality of the briefing (with amicus briefs from several advocacy organizations, a group of First Amendment professors, and DOJ's Civil Rights Division).