ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how the Slovak Constitutional Court conceived of its significant law-making potential granted to it by its very wide range of competences. For the first time in the research on this Court, the chapter is structured as a dialogue between the insider perspective on the SCC’s past, present, and optimal law-making role in the constitutional system, and the external view on the reception of some strands of the Court’s law-making activity by its three core ‘epistemic communities,’ the media, the political elites, and the experts, taking into consideration available data on public opinion as well. Selected case law is scrutinized from the inception of the Court until the end of the term of most of its judges in 2019, as the end of one important phase in its history. The chapter highlights how the reflection of the Court’s law-making activity has been shaped by a limited set of decisions.
