Jordanian Constitutional Court: Toward A Democratic, Effective and Accessible

• Author: Shams Al Din Al-Hajjaji
• Position: Egyptian Judiciary
• Pages: 269-277

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Jordanian Constitutional Court

Toward a democraTic, effecTive and accessiBle

Shams Al Din Al-Hajjaji

Egyptian Judiciary

E-mail: salhajjaji@aucegypt.edu

INTRODUCTION

is paper argues in favor of the reform of the Jordanian Constitutional

Court (hereinaer JCC) in order to make it more democratic, eective,

and accessible. e JCC is one of the most recent constitutional courts

in the Arab region1 and was established in 2012.2 It was introduced to

enhance the role of the law and legal transparency.3 However, the new

JCC faces many challenges that call for its reform. Legal reform has

always been a continuous process in every nation, and across history.4

is paper is a comparative methodology to provide a comprehensive

understanding of the proposed reform.

1. C   H K  J,  January ,

amend in 2011, art. 59/1. See also, Law No. 15 of 2012 (Constitutional Court

Law), 6 June 2013, art. 15/A (Jordan).

2. Issam Saliba, Jordan: Constitutional Law Court Newly Established in Jordan,

G L M, L  C, (Dec. 3, 2012), http://www.

loc.gov/law/foreign-news/article/jordan-constitutional-law-court-newly-es-

tablished-in-jordan/.

3. Alnswr: Alt’adilat al-dusturiat Iidafat muhima  ‘amaliat al’iislah alsiyasii wa-

taeziz aldiymuqratia, Petra (Jul. 7, 2017), http://petra.gov.jo/Public_News/

Nws_NewsDetails.aspx?Site_Id=2&lang=1&NewsID=164113&CatID=13.

4. Anne Dailey, Federalism and Families, 143 U. P. L. R. 1787, 1828 (1994-

1995), See also, Scott Grinsell, Caste and Problem of Social Reform in Indian

Equality Law, 35 Y J. I’ L. 199, 218 (2010).