Zherebtsova, E.E. On the discussion on place and role of the decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation within the system of sources of Russian constitutional law.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the confl ict of law issue on place and role of decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation among the sources of constitutional law of the Russian Federation. The author characterizes conceptual approaches of various sciences towards this issue, then the author attempts to view such decisions as constitutional doctrine, legal act, constitutional judicial precedent, prejudgement, non-traditional sources of constitutional law, etc., to single out their positive and negative features.

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