The many Constitutions of Europe

Eds. Kaarlo Tuori, Suvi Sankari. This volume makes a contribution to the ongoing lively discussion on European constitutionalism by offering a new perspective and a new interpretation of European constitutional plurality. The book combines diverse disciplinary approaches and brings into the constitutional debate even other ...

Law and agonistic politics

Ed. Andrew Schaap. In contemporary social and political theory, the concept of the agon has been appropriated from the Ancient Greeks to articulate a conflict theory of politics in contrast to prevailing liberal-republican consensus theories. Crucially, while the Ancients could presuppose that the agon would ...

Law as institutional normative order

Eds. Maksymilian Del Mar, Zenon Bankowski. Law as institutional normative order: an introduction, Maksymilian Del Mar; Part I Concepts of Law: Institutions of Law from a global perspective: standpoint, pluralism and non-state law, William Twining; Institutions and the concept of law: a reply to Ronald ...

Public Law and politics

the scope and limits of constitutionalism

This book exposes the possibility for critical engagement with the function of public law and with constitutionalism in its political dimensions. Bringing together the reflections of three leading constitutionalists: Martin Loughlin, James Tully and Frank Michelman, and comprising also three critical commentaries on each, the ...

Law and the politics of reconciliation

The collected essays by an international group of authors, this book explores the ways in which law and legal institutions are used in countries coming to terms with traumatic pasts, and, in some cases, traumatic presents. Little attention has been paid in the past to ...