Open AccessThe Status of Soft Law in Interpreting the Lithuanian Constitution
Author(s) -
Donatas Murauskas
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
teisė
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2424-6050
pISSN - 1392-1274
DOI - 10.15388/teise.2021.121.6
Subject(s) - lithuanian , constitution , originalism , doctrine , constitutional interpretation , normative , law , interpretation (philosophy) , political science , scholarship , soft law , sociology , philosophy , international law , linguistics
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.