Luces y sombras del Tratado Constitucional Europeo

El fracaso de la Cumbre de Bruselas, celebrada los días 12 y 13 de diciembre de 2003, hizo que nos planteásemos continuar la investigación presente con muchas más reservas que cuando la iniciamos en la primavera del mismo año. La Conferencia Intergubernamental no consiguió el ...

Governing Europe under a Constitution

the Hard Road from the european treaties to a european constitutional treaty

At the summit in Laeken in December 2001 the European Council opened the debate on the reform of the supranational structures through its 'Declaration on the Future of the European Union' and proposed a wide-ranging agenda. The European Convention, with the mandate of the European ...

State constitutions for the Twenty-first century.Vol.1: The politics of State constitutional reform

Through illuminating case studies of reform efforts in Alabama, California, Colorado, Florida, New York, and Virginia, this book#the first of three volumes#provides the first systematic analysis of the political obstacles to state constitutional reform. For those seeking constitutional reform, this useful resource can ...

The executiveand public Law

power and accountability in comparative perspective

For most of the past two hundred years or more - the grand era of national constitution-making - founding fathers and constitutional scholars alike seem to have focused more sharply on questions of legislative power than they have on executive power. Executive power, by contrast, they worried ...

Interpreting Constitutions

a comparative study

This book describes the constitutions of six major federations and how they have been interpreted by their highest courts, compares the interpretive methods and underlying principles that have guided the courts, and explores the reasons for major differences between these methods and principles. Among the ...

Patterns of regionalism and federalism

lessons for the UK

Federalism remains a highly contentious issue in the United Kingdom, but however suspect the 'F' word may be, a substantial amount of devolution has already become part of the local landscape and more may yet follow. With the competence for a number of policies thus ...

Teoría constitucional de la solidaridad

El estudio, en la línea metodológica y temática del autor, se sitúa en un contexto de crisis formal y material del "Constitucionalismo del Norte" - simultáneo a un original fortalecimiento del "Constitucionalismo del Sur" -, así como de las categorías de sujeto individual y de sujeto histórico ...

Structuring the State

the formation of Italy and Germany and the puzzle of federalism

Germany's and Italy's belated national unifications continue to loom large in contemporary debates. Often regarded as Europe's paradigmatic instances of failed modernization, the two countries form the basis of many of our most prized theories of social science. "Structuring the State" undertakes ...

The macropolitics of Congress

How do public laws, treaties, Senate confirmations, and other legislative achievements help us to gain insight into how our governmental system performs? This well-argued book edited by Scott Adler and John Lapinski is the first to assess our political institutions, by looking at what the ...

Les libertés en questions

Même lorsqu'elles sont respectées de longue date et solidement garanties, les libertés sont toujours en questions. Plusieurs débats de forte actualité en témoignent. Respect de la vie privée, rôle des juges et indépendance de la justice, école et laïcité, progrès de la médecine et ...

Modernising british government

constitutional challenges and federal solutions

This book will be released on the first year anniversary of the defeat for regional assemblies in NE England. It is related to the political 'hot topics' of the reform of the House of Lords and the role of central government; likely to provoke political ...

La utorità amministrative independenti della Repubblica

tra legittimità costituzionale e legittimazione democratica

La ricerca tenta di tracciare le coordinate della legittimità costituzionale e della legittimazione democratica delle Autorità amministrative indipendenti, partendo dalla convinzione che la riforma del Titolo V, di cui alla L. cost. n. 3 del 2001, permetta di offrire una soluzione complessiva ai numerosi problemi ...

Law and new governance in the EU and US

New approaches to governance have attracted significant scholarly attention in recent years. Commentators on both sides of the Atlantic have identified, charted and evaluated the rise and spread of forms of governance, forms which seem to differ from previous regulatory and legal paradigms. In Europe ...

Histoire constitutionnelle de la Suisse moderne

ses fondements idéologiques et son évolution institutionnelle dans le contexte européen, de la fin de l'Ancien Régime à 1848

Cet ouvrage très complet consacré à l'histoire constitutionnelle suisse, de la fin de l'Ancien Régime à la Constitution fédérale de 1848, met en lumière les origines du droit constitutionnel de la Suisse moderne. Il retrace le développement constitutionnel du pays en l'éclairant ...

El sistema político en la Constitución bolivariana de Venezuela

El sistema político venezolano ha estado envuelto en una dinámica de crisis y transformaciones en los últimos veinte años. Sometido a una crisis permanente desde la década de los ochenta, se han intentado esfuerzos por adaptar el sistema a las nuevas realidades y a las ...

The evolution of a Constitution

eight key moments in british constitutional history

This new work casts light upon the British constitution of today by means of an in-depth consideration of eight key moments in British constitutional history. The historical perspective adopted in this book facilitates an informed and contextual understanding of the intricacies of the contemporary British ...

Estructura del Estado y derrumbamiento del Segundo Reich: 'La Victoria del Burgués sobre el Soldado'. La lógica de la Sumisión Espiritual

Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) desarrolla en este opúsculo todas las ideas que elaboró y patentizó en escritos anteriores, en él esboza, de forma magistral, un delineamiento sobre la problemática del Derecho constitucional del II Reich, marcando un hito en la historiografía de dicho período. Su tesis ...

Droit global Law

des droits au droit: les droits de la personne, fondement du Droit

Le passage des droits au droit résume l'expérience unique de l'Occident. C'est en attribuant des droits à la personne que le droit naît et se développe. Au-delà des différences d'approche, plusieurs professeurs étrangers nous le démontrent : les Allemands Rainer Frank, Rainer ...

Le garanzie costituzionali nel Diritto pubblico dell'America Latina

SOMMARIO: Riconoscimenti. # Presentazione. # I. Garanzie costituzionali e giustizia costituzionale in America Latina. # II. La garanzia costituzionale di Habeas Corpus in America Latina. # III. Le garanzie costituzionali di amparo, mandado de sugurança, ricorso di protezione e azione di tutela. # IV. Controllo di costituzionalità e difesa dei ...

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