CONTROL OF CONSTITUTIONALITY OF LAWS IN ROMANIA -- CONTRIBUTIONS TO JURISDUDENCE.

To the Romanian system of law, jurisprudence does not have the quality of a formal source of law. Nevertheless, a legal reality, viewed from a historical perspective, has demonstrated the essential role of judicial practice in interpreting and enforcing the law, in constructing argumentative practices, in clarifying the will of the legislator, and in discovering the less obvious meanings of legal norms and, last but not least, in unifying thought and legal practice. Therefore, jurisprudence, along with doctrine, is an important component of the Romanian system of law. Based on these considerations, we intend to highlight some aspects of constitutional jurisprudence in this paper. We underline its contribution to the constitutional review of laws in Romania. Under the Constitution of 1866, which did not regulate institutionally such a control, the courts have assumed this competence by interpreting the law and by way of jurisprudence. Important aspects of the Constitutional Court jurisprudence and of the courts in the development of constitutional review in our country are presented and analysed. We support the idea that jurisprudence currently plays an important part in the interpretation of constitutional norms, including with regard to deepening the constitutional review forms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]