Review of the collective monograph "Municipal constitutionalism: legislation, law enforcement, judicial guarantees / N. S. Bondar, O. I. Bazhenova, T. P. Georgieva [et al.]: collective monograph / under the general scientific editorship of Professor N. S. Bondar; Series "Library of Judicial Constitutionalism". – Vol. 16. Rostov-on-Don: Sputnik Nauki, 2025. 291 p."

Abstract

The review of the collective monograph "Municipal Constitutionalism: legislation, law enforcement, judicial guarantees" notes the relevance of issues actively discussed on its pages: municipal constitutionalism as a new category of domestic jurisprudence, its institutions (legal regulation and implementation), the judiciary as a guarantor of municipal constitutionalism, etc.A significant place in the reviewed monograph is occupied by a block of issues that affects the immediate legal consequences of the integration of local self-government into a single system of public authority, which, in a formal legal sense, occurred during the constitutional reform of 2020. The latter is not formal, but it is a partial reorganization of the complex system of relations between federal, regional and local authorities in terms of greater manageability, dependence and subordination to the latter. This block of issues, anticipating the adoption of the new law, is also reflected in the presented collective monograph. A distinctive feature of the reviewed publication is the close connection between general theoretical and practical material. The presented work provides an opportunity not only to familiarize oneself with the conceptual approaches concerning the phenomenon of municipal constitutionalism itself, but also to "track" the practice of protecting the institution of local government and, in general, ensuring local self-government in modern Russia. This publication will undoubtedly be of interest not only to representatives of Russian legal science (including undergraduates and postgraduates), but also to practitioners.