Congressional representation and constituents

the case for increasing the U.S. House of Representatives

The U.S. House of Representatives has been frozen at 435 members for almost a century, and in that time the nation's population has grown by more than 200 per cent. With the number of citizens represented by each House member now dramatically larger ...

Religious freedom and the Constitution

Religion has become a charged token in a politics of division. In disputes about faith-based social services, public money for religious schools, the Pledge of Allegiance, Ten Commandments monuments, the theory of evolution, and many other topics, angry contestation threatens to displace America's historic ...

German legal system and Laws

German Legal System and Laws provides a comprehensive introduction to the German legal system and the core areas of substantive law. Constitutional law is the foundation of German law and this area has been given fuller consideration in this fourth edition. The constitutional organs of ...

La nuova Costituzione economica

A cura di Sabino Cassese. Quali sono i rapporti tra Stato ed economia in Italia? Come si sono sviluppati dall#unità a oggi? Quale parte hanno l#Unione europea e la globalizzazione nella modificazione di tali relazioni? Accanto a un bilancio storico dell#intervento economico ...

Diversidad, Derechos Fundamentales y federalismo

un diálogo entre Canadá y España

Las sociedades occidentales cada vez perciben la diversidad o el pluralismo como rasgo característico de su identidad. De ahí que resulte oportuno comparar las respuestas que dan los ordenamientos jurídicos de Canadá y España a las demandas procedentes de la diversidad territorial a través del ...

Why the Constitution matters

In this surprising and highly unconventional work, Harvard law professor Mark Tushnet poses a seemingly simple question that yields a thoroughly unexpected answer. The Constitution matters, he argues, not because it structures our government but because it structures our politics. He maintains that politicians and ...

The national judicial treatment of the ECHR and EU Laws

a comparative constitutional perspective

Eds. Giuseppe Martinico, Oreste Pollicino. The book collects the proceeding of an international conference at the Scuola Superiore Sant#Anna of Pisa (16-17 January 2010). Do national judges start treating the provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights the same way they treat the ...

Sources of constitutional Law

Constitutions and fundamental legal provisions from the United States, France, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the ECHR and the EU

Ed. Philipp Kiiver. This volume contains important constitutional and legislative texts from the United States, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, as well as provisions from the European Convention on Human Rights and the Treaty on European Union. It helps students to work ...

A republic of statutes

the new american constitution

The Constitution is often conceived as our nation's Grand Blueprint and the embodiment of our Highest Aspirations. The authors, using prominent cases such as Brown v. Board of Education, maintain that this conception is myth. Instead, William Eskridge and John Ferejohn propose an original ...

The Constitution of South Africa

a contextual analysis

South Africa's 1996 'Final' Constitution is widely recognised as the crowning achievement of the country's dramatic transition to democracy. This transition began with the unbanning of the liberation movements and release of Nelson Mandela from prison in February 1990. This book presents the ...

The spirit of the Law

religious voices and the Constitution in Modern America

A new constitutional world burst into American life in the mid- twentieth century. For the first time, the national constitution's religion clauses were extended by the United States Supreme Court to all state and local governments. As energized religious individuals and groups probed the ...

Derechos del hombre y derechos fundamentales

vías alternativas: Buber y Sartre

Es esta una obra que interesa y suscita curiosidad desde su primera página, pues mueve a reflexionar no sólo sobre la condición del hombre contemporáneo, de su alienación y enmascaramiento, sino del mismo derecho y la justicia, como instituciones seculares que giran en torno a ...

The American Supreme Court

Revised by Sanford Levinson. Celebrating its fiftieth anniversary, Robert G. McCloskey's classic work on the Supreme Court's role in constructing the U.S. Constitution has introduced generations of students to the workings of our nation's highest court. For this new fifth edition ...

Los derechos sociales en las nuevas Constituciones latinoamericanas

SUMARIO: 1. Introducción: el nuevo constitucionalismo latinoamericano.- 2. El debate en torno a los derechos sociales y su reflejo en el nuevo constitucionalismo latinoamericano.- 3. La Constitución de Perú de 1993. Constitución ilegítima y regresividad de los derechos sociales.- Las Constituciones de Brasil de 1988 ...

Human Rights Law and business

corporate responsibility for fundamental Human Rights

Over recent decades, globalisation has stirred up a number of positive and negative developments in national and international environments. An important feature of globalisation is the rise of the economic, social, cultural and political power of corporations. While corporate activities may positively contribute to the ...

On the limits of Constitutional Adjudication

deconstructing balancing and judicial activism

Juliano Z. Benvindo investigates the current movement of constitutional courts towards political activism, especially by focusing on the increasing use of the balancing method as a 'rational' justification for this process. From the critical perception of the serious risks of this movement to democracy, this ...

Le procès constitutionnel

Le nouvel article 61-I de la Constitution introduit par la loi constitutionnelle du 23 juillet 2008 qui ouvre pour une partie à un procès le droit de contester la constitutionnalité de dispositions d'une loi promulguée marque une avancée certaine pour l'Etat de droit ...

Droit constitutionnel français

Adossé à une lecture constructive de l'histoire constitutionnelle française, dont il s'agit de repérer les lignes de force et les fractures, à travers changements et continuité, ce manuel entend mettre à la disposition des étudiants de première année une approche renouvelée du droit ...

Droits constitutionnels étrangers

Principalement destiné aux étudiants des facultés de droit et des instituts d'études politiques, cet ouvrage, conçu sous la forme de développements synthétiques, structurés et illustrés, permettra au lecteur d'acquérir une vision comparative des droits constitutionnels étrangers situés dans leur contexte historique et leur ...

Parliamentary sovereignty

contemporary debates

This book has four main themes: (1) a criticism of 'common law constitutionalism', the theory that Parliament's authority is conferred by, and therefore is or can be made subordinate to, judge-made common law; (2) an analysis of Parliament's ability to abdicate, limit or ...