136320 20260217205531.0 doi 10.1016/j.irle.2024.106212 sideral 139207 ART-2024-139207 eng López-Laborda, Julio Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-1539-8483 No War of Courts in the protection of fundamental rights: The case of amparo appeals in Spain 2024 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted This paper econometrically tests the possible existence of a War of Courts when the Spanish Constitutional Court (CC) decides on constitutional complaints (recursos de amparo), filed by citizens against the violation of a fundamental right or freedom by the Supreme Court. Exploiting a unique database comprising 404 amparo appeals rulings issued by the Spanish CC for the period 2015–2019, we have carried out various estimates whose results do not confirm the hypothesis of the existence of such a War of Courts, despite the fears expressed in the legal doctrine on this subject. On the contrary, the results suggest that the CC maintains a favourable attitude towards the Supreme Court, specifically when the ruling is issued by the Plenary of the CC. However, the estimates do not allow us to conclusively reject the existence of such a conflict between the CC and other bodies of the Judiciary besides the Supreme Court. info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.es 1.0 2024 LAW 142 / 444 = 0.32 2024 Q2 T1 ECONOMICS 391 / 620 = 0.631 2024 Q3 T2 0.359 2024 Law 2024 Q2 Economics and Econometrics 2024 Q3 Finance 2024 Q3 2.7 2024 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Rodrigo, Fernando Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-1534-2970 Sanz-Arcega, Eduardo Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-8555-973X 4014 225 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Economía Aplicada Área Economía Aplicada 79 (2024), 106212 [12 pp.] Int. rev. law econ. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF LAW AND ECONOMICS 0144-8188 798369 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/136320/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 2536326 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/136320/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:136320 articulos driver 2026-02-17-20:32:32 ARTICLE