Is the Principle of Legal Certainty a Human Right? The Legitimacy of the Retroactive Application of Laws

Abstract

The topic deals with possibility of the legislator to adopt retroactive laws and discusses various types of retroactive laws with respect to protection of rights of those whose rights are affected by such laws. At first, it describes theoretical approaches to this topic and furthermore it demonstrates these approaches on particular cases.

Keywords

• legislation
• retroactivity
• retrospectivity
• law-making process
• changes in law