The europeanization of british politics

It is impossible to understand contemporary British politics without a comprehension of the EU's role in shaping political agendas, influencing policy developments and framing political debates. While there is an extensive literature on Britain's behaviour in the EU, there are few book-length accounts ...

La autonomía parlamentaria en la práctica constitucional española

La autonomía parlamentaria constituye una garantía que se remonta a Los orígenes mismos de nuestro constitucionalismo. Sin embargo, a pesar de sus profundas raíces históricas, la autonomía ha modificado su fundamento y alcance y tiene que ser interpretada a la luz de las nuevas circunstancias ...

El programa de gobierno y sus sistemas de control

¿Está cambiando en algo el régimen parlamentario? ¿Estamos ante signos que nos permitan hablar de nuevas tendencias que supongan una evolución en el parlamentarismo contemporáneo? Si la preocupación que presidió la evolución del parlamentarismo clásico al modelo de parlamentarismo racionalizado fue la de la estabilidad ...

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 ...

El parlamento necesario

parlamento y democracia en el siglo XXI

El libro que el lector tiene entre sus manos es un libro que reivindica el Parlamento como necesidad en cualquier debate que se realice, desde la teoría o desde el propio estudio del funcionamiento institucional, de la democracia. Pero no es una reivindicación del Parlemento ...

European ombudsman-institutions

Ed. Gabriele Kucsko-Stadlmayer. This book aims to comprehensively demonstrate the legal basis of parliamentary ombudsman institutions throughout Europe, analysing them in a comparative way and thereby revealing their organisational and functional diversity. It comprises the results of a research project carried out at the University ...

Las competencias presupuestarias del Parlamento

Los fundamentos histórico-espirituales del parlamentarismo en su situación actual

En Los fundamentos histórico-espirituales del parlamentarismo en su situación actual (2.ª ed. de 1926), Carl Schmitt efectúa la reconstrucción del tipo ideal de la institución parlamentaria, para, a renglón seguido, declarar irremediablemente extintos los supuestos estructurales que hicieron posible su emergencia histórica. La crisis ...

La protection des libertés fondamentales par la procédure du référé- liberté

étude de l'article L 521-2 du Code de Justice Administrative

Le référé-liberté fondamentale est une procédure entièrement nouvelle introduite en droit du contentieux administratif par la loi n° 2000-597 du 30 juin 2000. Très vite, la mise en place de ce mécanisme original de protection des libertés fondamentales a rencontré un vif succès auprès des ...

La controverse sur "le gardien de la Constitution" et la justice cinstitutionnelle = Der weimarar streit um den hünter der Verfassung und die verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit

Kelsen contre Schmitt = Kelsen gegen Schmitt

En 1931, à une époque où la République de Weimar subit une sévère crise non seulement économique mais aussi politique, Carl Schmitt publie un essai Le gardien de la Constitution - non encore traduit en français - dans lequel il voit dans le Président du Reich la ...

Constitucionalismo y separación de poderes

The British Constitution

In the latter part of the nineteenth century Walter Bagehot wrote a classic account of the British constitution as it had developed during Queen Victoria's reign. He argued that the late Victorian constitution was not at all what people thought it was. Anthony King ...

La giustizia costituzionale

La materia di giustizia costituzionale è ormai oggetto di esami universitari ad hoc. Per questo scopo nasce quest'opera che presenta la materia con completezza e in un linguaggio accessibile e semplice. Si qualifica per offrire una rilettura anche storica e giurisprudenziale della materia senza ...

Manuale di Diritto costituzionale

Si tratta della IV edizione di questo volume. E' stato aggiornato a tutte le ultime modifiche, resta un testo agile e chiaro. Le modifiche più importanti atengono soprattutto alle Autonomie locali e alla parte di diritto comunitario. Il testo è ampiamente emendato, aggiornato, ampliato.

Collected works of James Wilson

This two-volume set brings together a collection of writings and speeches of James Wilson. Wilson was one of only six signers of both the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution, and his writings and speeches had a significant impact on the deliberations that ...

Droit constitutionnel

Publié pour la première fois en poche, ce manuel de Droit constitutionnel est déjà devenu un ouvrage de référence et d'introduction destiné aux étudiants, débutants et confirmés, aux enseignants, aux politistes ainsi qu'au public soucieux de comprendre les enjeux du droit constitutionnel. A ...

Costituzione e regolazione

interessi, norme e regole sullo sfruttamento delle risorse naturali

La riforma costituzionale del 2001, imperfetta e spesso problematica se letta insieme alla precedente "riforma Bassanini", è stata interpretata dalla Corte costituzionale con un vigore e una frequenza senza precedenti. Ciò apre un'ampia prospettiva di lavoro per la scienza e per il diritto costituzionale ...

The Magna Carta Manifesto

liberties and commons for all

This remarkable book shines a fierce light on the current state of liberty and shows how longstanding restraints against tyranny - and the rights of habeas corpus, trial by jury, and due process of law, and the prohibition of torture - are being abridged. In providing a ...

The first amendment

the free exercise of religion clause. Its constitutional history and the contemporary debate

'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...' - From the First Amendment. Religious freedom is often designated as America's 'first freedom', and securing religious freedom as a constitutional right is one of our nation's greatest ...

Active liberty

interpreting a democratic Constitution

What role should courts play in a modern democracy? How should fundamental provisions of a democratic constitution be interpreted? These questions have divided constitutional theorists and those responsible for interpreting and applying constitutional law including, notoriously, the current U.S. Supreme Court. Justice Breyer is ...