The living Constitution

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia once remarked that the theory of an evolving, "living" Constitution effectively "rendered the Constitution useless." He wanted a "dead Constitution," he joked, arguing it must be interpreted as the framers originally understood it. In The Living Constitution, leading constitutional scholar ...

Teoría del Estado constitucional

INDICE: El Estado, concepto, elementos, la evolución del Estado. La COnstitución. La división del poder.

The judge as political theorist

contemporary constitutional review

"The Judge as Political Theorist" examines opinions by constitutional courts in liberal democracies to better understand the logic and nature of constitutional review. David Robertson argues that the constitutional judge's role is nothing like that of the legislator or chief executive, or even the ...

Il territorio

dallo stato-nazione alla globalizzazione: sfide e prospettive dello Stato costituzionale aperto

Il diritto negli spazi dell'europa premoderna - Gli spazi giuridici della modernità - Il territorio dello stato nel diritto pubblico e internazionale tra XIX e XX secolo - Globalizzazione, ricadute sul territorio dello stato come categoria dogmatica. Problemi del costituzionalismo in una pluralità di spazi giuridici - Gli ...

Limits of constitutional democracy

Eds. Jeffrey K. Tulis, Stephen Macedo. Constitutional democracy is at once a flourishing idea filled with optimism and promise - and an enterprise fraught with limitations. Uncovering the reasons for this ambivalence, this book looks at the difficulties of constitutional democracy, and reexamines fundamental questions: What ...

Beyond constitutionalism

the pluralist structure of postnational Law

Under pressure from globalisation, the classical distinction between domestic and international law has become increasingly blurred, spurring demand for new paradigms to construe the emerging postnational legal order. The typical response of constitutional and international lawyers as well as political theorists has been to extend ...

Constitutional identity

In "Constitutional Identity", Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn argues that a constitution acquires an identity through experience - from a mix of the political aspirations and commitments that express a nation's past and the desire to transcend that past. It is changeable but resistant to its own ...

En las fronteras entre el Derecho constitucional y la filosofía del Derecho

consideraciones iusfilosóficas acerca de algunos temas constitucionales

Prólogo de Rodolfo Vigo. El diálogo entre el Derecho Constitucional y la Filosofía del Derecho se ha vuelto más interesante e imperioso en las últimas décadas debido a la creciente expansión del constitucionalismo y el neoconstitucionalismo, procesos que han modificado profundamente la fisonomía de los ...

La giustizia costituzionale nel XXI secolo

il progressivo avvicinamento dei sistemi americano ed europeo-kelseniano

ÍNDICE: Presentazione - Preface Premessa - Introduction Francisco Fernández Segado, La justicia constitucional ante el siglo XXI. La progresiva convergencia de los sistemas americano y europeo- kelseniano

The constitutional State

The Constitutional State provides an original analytical account of the state and its associated constitutional phenomena. It presents the state as a form of social group, consisting of people, territory and institutions bound together by rules. The institutions of the state make a distinctive and ...

Libertad de conciencia y Derecho sanitario en España y Latinoamérica

Los espectaculares avances experimentados recientemente por las ciencias medicas y biológicas en materias que afectan a aspectos esenciales de la vida humana fecundación artificial, aborto, trasplantes de órganos, investigación biomédica, clonación, etc. han dado lugar al planteamiento de una intensa problemática ética y jurídica inimaginable ...

Los derechos como principios objetivos en los Estados compuestos

Ed. Juan Carlos Gavara de Cara. La regulación de derechos de los ciudadanos en los actos normativos reguladores de los entes descentralizados (Constituciones o Estatutos) en los Estados compuestos es un elemento que ha sido objeto de múltiples reflexiones, pero se trata de una constante ...

Taming the gods

religion and democracy on three contients

For eight years the president of the United States was a born-again Christian, backed by well-organized evangelicals who often seemed intent on erasing the church-state divide. In Europe, the increasing number of radicalized Muslims is creating widespread fear that Islam is undermining Western-style liberal democracy ...

Privacy and freedom of expression

This book is a reprint of the chapters on privacy and freedom of expression from the authors' major practitioner text, The Law of Human Rights. Its separate publication in this form is intended to make it accessible to those who do not have their own ...

Pictorial Law

modern Law and the power of pictures

We live in a digital Media Society, in which pictures are becoming more and more important. So, human communication is increasingly becoming a visual communication. That is not a new finding. But the new question is: What does this development mean for the law? Up ...

Fair trial rights

This book is a reprint of the chapter on Fair Trial Rights from the authors' major practitioner text, The Law of Human Rights. Its separate publication in this form is intended to make it accessible to those who do not have their own copy of ...

Plain, honest men

the making of the american Constitution

In May 1787, in an atmosphere of crisis, delegates met in Philadelphia to design a radically new form of government. Distinguished historian Richard Beeman captures as never before the dynamic of the debate and the characters of the men who labored that historic summer. Virtually ...

Freedom for the thought that we hate

a biography of the first amendment

From one of America's most esteemed experts on the First Amendment comes an eloquent essay on the importance of expression and the need for 'activist judges' More than virtually any other nation on earth, Americans enjoy the freedom to say and write what they ...

The constitutional protection od capitalism

In 1945 a Labour government deployed Britain's national autonomy and parliamentary sovereignty to nationalise key industries and services such as coal, rail, gas and electricity, and to establish a publicly- owned National Health Service. This monograph argues that constitutional constraints stemming from economic and ...

Freedom of information

the Law, the practice and the ideal

Enacted in 2000 and in operation in the UK since 2005, the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act has revealed information which has generated calls for constitutional reform. A massive 'information jurisprudence' has developed through the decisions of the Information Commissioner, the Information Tribunal and the ...