nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20220506-182201-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 220506s2022||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20220506-182201-0 doi eng 342 23 Perroud, Thomas Author aut A Court With Powerless Judges - The Informal Power Structures of the French Constitutional Court Perroud, Thomas Verfassungsblog 2022-05-06 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The new appointments of judges to the French Constitutional Council, I described in an earlier post this week, are certainly important but also less decisive than one might think. The structure and the functioning of the Court are built to minimize the power of its judges. The real decisions are made by the legal department of the Court’s administration. CC BY-SA 4.0 Conseil Constitutionnel French Constitutional Council judicial independence Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/a-court-with-powerless-judges/ raw object