{"id":22153,"date":"2026-09-30T04:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T04:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teise.org\/?p=22153"},"modified":"2026-09-30T04:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T04:56:07","slug":"20260930-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/20260930-2\/","title":{"rendered":"An article by researchers at the LCSS Law Institute on a referendum initiative and the constitutional concept of family"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An open-access article titled \u201cCan a Referendum Reverse Constitutional Meaning? Constitutional Adjudication, Family Rights and the Limits of Constitutional Amendment in Lithuania\u201d by Dr. Dovil\u0117 P\u016brait\u0117-Andrikien\u0117 and Dr. Agn\u0117 Ju\u0161kevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117-Vilien\u0117, researchers at the Law Institute of the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences (LCSS), has been published in the international academic journal \u201cLaws\u201d. The article examines a proposal by a group of Lithuanian parliamentarians to hold an advisory referendum concerning an amendment to Article 38 of the Constitution. The proposed amendment would link the constitutional concept of family exclusively to marriage between a man and a woman, motherhood and fatherhood.<\/p>\n

The authors ask what limits the Constitutional Court\u2019s interpretation of family and the protection of fundamental rights place on such an initiative. They argue that the proposed amendment would seek to reverse the understanding of family developed in the Court\u2019s case law. The article considers the substantive limits on constitutional amendments, legal certainty, Lithuania\u2019s obligations under the ECHR and EU law, the case law of the ECtHR and CJEU, and comparative constitutional practice. It emphasises the role of constitutional courts in safeguarding fundamental rights when constitutional change is pursued through referendums.<\/p>\n

The full open-access article can be found here: https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2075-471X\/15\/5\/122<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tarptautiniame akademiniame \u017eurnale \u201eLaws\u201c paskelbtas LSMC Teis\u0117s instituto mokslininki\u0173 dr. Dovil\u0117s P\u016brait\u0117s-Andrikien\u0117s ir dr. Agn\u0117s Ju\u0161kevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117s-Vilien\u0117s atvirosios prieigos straipsnis \u201eCan a Referendum Reverse Constitutional Meaning? Constitutional Adjudication, Family Rights and the Limits of Constitutional Amendment in Lithuania\u201c (liet. \u201eAr referendumas gali pakeisti Konstitucijos nuostat\u0173 prasm\u0119? Konstitucin\u0117 justicija, \u0161eimos teis\u0117s ir Konstitucijos keitimo ribos Lietuvoje\u201c). Straipsnyje analizuojamas grup\u0117s Seimo nari\u0173 si\u016blymas surengti patariam\u0105j\u012f referendum\u0105 d\u0117l Konstitucijos 38 straipsnio pakeitimo, kuriuo \u0161eimos samprata b\u016bt\u0173 siejama tik su vyro ir moters santuoka, motinyste bei t\u0117vyste. Autor\u0117s nagrin\u0117ja, kokias ribas tokiai iniciatyvai nustato Konstitucinio Teismo i\u0161pl\u0117tota konstitucin\u0117 \u0161eimos samprata ir pagrindini\u0173 teisi\u0173 apsauga. Autor\u0117s teigia, kad si\u016blomu pakeitimu b\u016bt\u0173 siekiama paneigti Konstitucinio Teismo jurisprudencijoje i\u0161pl\u0117tot\u0105 \u0161eimos samprat\u0105. Tod\u0117l vertinant referendumo iniciatyv\u0105 svarbu atsi\u017evelgti ne vien \u012f daugumos vali\u0105, bet ir \u012f Konstitucijos keitimo ribojimus, oficiali\u0105 konstitucin\u0119 doktrin\u0105 bei teisinio tikrumo princip\u0105. Straipsnyje taip pat analizuojama Europos \u017dmogaus Teisi\u0173 Teismo ir Europos S\u0105jungos Teisingumo Teismo praktika, Lietuvos \u012fsipareigojimai pagal Europos \u017emogaus teisi\u0173 konvencij\u0105 ir ES teis\u0119 bei lyginamoji konstitucin\u0117 jurisprudencija. Tyrimas pabr\u0117\u017eia konstitucini\u0173 teism\u0173 vaidmen\u012f saugant pagrindines teises ir tais atvejais, kai d\u0117l konstitucini\u0173 pakeitim\u0173 vyksta referendumai. Vis\u0105 atvirosios prieigos straipsn\u012f galima rasti \u010dia: https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2075-471X\/15\/5\/122<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,268],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-naujienos","category-268"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22153"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22159,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22153\/revisions\/22159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}