Judicial Review and the Jordanian Constitutional Court: False Start or Slow Start?

What is it about?

Protecting the rights and freedoms of the people requires legislation to be examined to ensure that it is consistent with constitutional provisions. Debate around the constitutionality of laws and regulations can be resolved by judicial review, and to achieve this process a constitutional court needs to be established, especially in modern states, as it guarantees that the public authorities exercise their powers fairly and that citizens and government are equal under the law. _x000D_ Despite some countries made reforms in the wake of the Arab Spring in 2011 that resulted the collapse of some regimes, these improvements were limited to political matters, and Jordan as one of the Arab countries tried to make additional judicial reforms by establishing a Constitutional Court. This paper therefore evaluates the recent experience of Jordan in establishing a constitutional judiciary in order to provide some recommendations that may enhance the principle of constitutional supremacy in Jordan and in other Arab countries that draw on the experience of Jordan._x000D_

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