Judge’s dissenting opinion of the Constitutional Court: characteristics of a legal institute

The institute of judicial dissenting opinions in the different fields of procedure law was actively studied from 2005 to 2021 in Russia. At the same time, dissenting opinions are regulated sparsely and fragmentarily in law. A content analysis of scientific articles about dissenting opinions helped to form a relevant selection of articles about the institute of dissenting opinions. A semantic analysis of the articles showed that dissenting opinions was studying mostly in the constitutional judicial procedure. The institutional characteristics of dissenting opinions were not studied separately. It has been proved that a dissenting opinion in a constitutional court has institutional characteristics which settled in the theory of law. The regulation of this institute is a homogeneous nature, the rules are systematically arranged, interrelated, isolated in separate articles of the law. Thus, these conclusions will help to find gaps and defects in the current regulation of dissenting opinions in constitutional judicial procedure.