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About the Authors
Vojtech Cepl
Vojtech Cepl is a justice of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic. The present essay is based on a discussion paper that he delivered to the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France, on 4 December 1995.
Mark Gillis
Mark Gillis is an American lawyer on the staff of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic.