The Status of Soft Law in Interpreting the Lithuanian Constitution
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Donatas Murauskas
Vilnius University, Lithuania
Published 2021-12-08
https://doi.org/10.15388/Teise.2021.121.6
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Keywords

soft law
legal interpretation
originalism
“living constitution”
sources of legal interpretation

How to Cite

Murauskas, D. (2021) “The Status of Soft Law in Interpreting the Lithuanian Constitution”, Teisė, 121, pp. 98–114. doi:10.15388/Teise.2021.121.6.

Abstract

In this paper, I examine the status of soft law in the official interpretation of the Lithuanian Constitution. The “living constitution” doctrine dominates the Lithuanian constitutional scholarship. I question this dominance by providing insights on the essence and application potential of the alternative methodology – the doctrine of originalism. Based on originalistic approach, I doubt the normative claim made in Lithuanian constitutional scholarship that soft law could be considered as a mandatory source of interpretation of the Lithuanian Constitution.

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