The Development of Constitutional and Administrative Law in Latvia after the Restoration of Independence

Abstract

The given article presents a retrospective analysis of the most significant events in the area of constitutional and administrative law in the Republic of Latvia during its second period of independence. The authors of the article are experts in state law who have attempted to examine the events of the last 20 years objectively and independently. Separate events examined from the position of the existing legal reality have been viewed with different understanding of their contents. Although the article can be ranked as a survey study, it does not deliberately follow chronologically scrupulous division into specific stages that is a frequent feature in legal literature because it is more important not to perceive certain occurrences ad litteram (Lat. – verbatim) but to understand the essence of processes from perspective of their use or ad usum (Lat. – for use, application). The present article should not be associated with the official position of the University of Latvia or Faculty of Law of the University of Latvia.