The issue of constitutional authority, and more particularly the plurality of claims to legal and constitutional authority, has been a dominant theme of European Union legal scholarship in recent years. The resonance of the topic is evident in many of the major EU developments o…
"Sovereignty and the sovereign state are often seen as anachronisms; Globalisation and Sovereignty challenges this view. Jean L. Cohen analyses the new sovereignty regime emergent since the 1990s evidenced by the discourses and practice of human rights, humanitarian intervention…
La 4e de couverture indique : "There are many challenges that national and supranational judges have to face when fulfilling their roles as guardians of constitutionalism and human rights. This book brings together academics and judges from different jurisdictions in an endeavou…
Présentation de l'éditeur : "The period from the fifteenth century to the late eighteenth century was one of critical importance to British constitutionalism. Although the seeds were sown in earlier eras, it was at this point that the constitution was transformed to a system of …
Rejecting current arguments that international law should be 'constitutionalized', this book advances an alternative, pluralist vision of postnational legal orders. It analyses the promise and problems of pluralism in theory and in current practice - focusing on the European hum…
Law, politics, and the constitution: new perspectives from legal and political theory
by Geisler, Antonia, Hein, Michael, Hummel, Siri, Central and Eastern European Forum for Legal, Political and Social Theorists, Greifswald, Allemagne)
fromCentral and Eastern European Forum for Legal, Political and…
Abusive Constitutional Borrowing outlines this phenomenon, how it succeeds, and what we can do to prevent it. This book address current patterns of democratic retrenchment and explores its multiple variants and technologies, considering the role of legitimating ideologies that h…
El Estado Constitucional establece una particular relación entre derechos, jurisdicción y legislación. En concreto, la incorporación de principios a la Constitución hace especialmente agudo el problema de la vinculación del juez a la ley, tal y como advertía Kelsen en sus escrit…