COMMON PRINCIPLES OF JUDICIAL REVIEW OF ADMINISTRATION IN EUROPE:A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF FRANCE, THE UK, THE ECHR AND THE EU

Bu çalışma Avrupada idari yargının ortak prensiplerinin mevcut olup olmadığını tespit etmeyi amaçlamaktadır. Bugün hukukun pek çok alanında yaşanan uluslararasılaşma süreci bilhassa 1950lerden itibaren Avrupada artarak devam etmektedir. Diğer hukuk alanları kadar belirgin olmasa da, idare yargıda doğal olarak bu uluslararasılaşma sürecinin dışında kalamamıştır. Yazar, bu çalışmada idarenin yargısal denetiminde Avrupada ortak ilkelerinin mevcut olup olmadığını tespit etmek için Avrupa Konseyi ve Avrupa Birliği hukuk alanları ile Kıta Avrupası Hukuk Sistemi (civil law) ve Anglo Sakson Hukuk Sisteminin (common law) önde gelen temsilcileri olan Fransız ve İngiliz idari yargı sistemlerini, mukayeseli hukuk usulüne göre incelemeye çalışmaktadır. Bu makalede, Avrupadaki ulusal idari yargı sistemlerinin kendilerine özgü karekteristik özelliklerini halen daha önemli ölçüde muhafaza ettikleri, bu sistemler arasındaki farklılıkların benzerliklerden çok daha fazla ve belirgin olduğu, bununla birlikte söz konusu sistemler arasındaki farklılık ne kadar fazla ve geniş olursa olsun bu sistemlerin, bilhassa Avrupa İnsan Hakları Mahkemesi ve Avrupa Birliği Adalet Divanı içtihatları sayesinde güçlü bir uluslarüstü ve uluslararası etkileşim sürecine girdiği sonucuna varılmaktadır. Çalışmanın sonunda, söz konusu etkileşime rağmen henüz Avrupa yargı alanında idari yargının ortak ilkelerinden henüz söz edilemese de, hem AHİM hem de ATADın daha cesur, açık ve sürükleyici içtihatları ile gelecek onyıllarda ‘Ortak Avrupa İdari Yargısının ortaya çıkabilmesinin mümkün olduğu öngörülmektedir.

The purpose of this dissertation is to examine whether common principles for judicial review of administration exist in the European legal area. Today, law has been transforming into a form of internationalization in many areas in the world. This process is more visible in some fields of law in recent decades. In Europe, law has become more international from 1950s onwards; it is called as “Europeanization of law”. Naturally, administrative judiciary has not stayed out of this process. The author attempts to find principles within the context of the Council of Europe and EU legal areas as well as French and British administrative judicial systems as two examples of European national jurisdictions by using a mixture of historical and comparative methods. This study presents that European national administrative judicial systems have been still continuing to preserve their own peculiar characteristics to a large extent, therefore divergences among different European administrative judiciary systems are much bigger and more obvious than convergences. Also, the study presents that, no matter how this divergence is wide, these systems have been in a strong supranational or international interaction by the impact of the case law of the ECtHR and the ECJ. This dissertation concludes that this interaction, however, has not reached a sufficient level yet to assert that common principles of judicial review have been formed. This study suggests that more explicit, distinct and leading case law from the both the ECtHR and the ECJ is needed for the emergence of “European ius commune of judicial review”.

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