Lezioni di storia delle codificazioni e delle costituzioni

I. Costituzioni e codici con un cenno al sei- settecento (M. Ascheri). # II. Diritto e processo penale alla fine dell#Ancien Régime (M. Chiantini). # III. L#italia al bivio: le istituzioni politiche della restaurazione (S. Notari). # IV. All#origine del controllo di costituzionalità delle leggi ...

Constitutional and Administrative Law

CONTENTS: Table of Cases Table of Statutes Table of Statutory Instruments 1 Constitutions - What, Why and Characteristics 2 Structure of United Kingdom Governance 3 Sources of the United Kingdom Constitution 4 Membership of the European Union 5 The Rule of Law 6 Separation of Powers ...

Saving the Constitution from Lawyers

how legal training and Law reviews distort constitutional meaning

This book is a sweeping indictment of the legal profession in the realm of constitutional interpretation. The adversarial, advocacy-based American legal system is well suited to American justice, in which one- sided arguments collide to produce a just outcome. But when applied to constitutional theorizing ...

La participación política como derecho fundamental en la Constitución de España y de Europa

La participación política como derecho fundamental del ciudadano español sustentada en la Constitución de España y en el Tratado por el cual se integra una Constitución para Europa es la contribución al estudio de los derechos políticos que aporta esta obra. Lo que se propone ...

Expounding the Constitution

essays in constitutional theory

Ed. Grant Huscroft. What does it mean to interpret the constitution? Does constitutional interpretation involve moral reasoning, or is legal reasoning something different? What does it mean to say that a limit on a right is justified? How does judicial review fit into a democratic ...

"Solo il re ha il potere delle armi"

Copenaghen, 18 ottobre 1660: gli Stati Generali di Danimarca e l'instaurazione dell'assolutismo monarchico

Nel 1660 la pressione geostrategica svedese, le sconfitte militari e la crisi finanziaria conducono la Danimarca-Norvegia a ridimensionare drasticamente il potere nobiliare e a introdurre un deciso assolutismo monarchico. Sono gli Stati Generali a consentire questo, favorendo un notevole rinnovamento costituzionale, istituzionale, fiscale e di ...

Constitutional conscience

the moral dimension of judicial decision

While many recent observers have accused American judges - especially Supreme Court justices - of being too driven by politics and ideology, others have argued that judges are justified in using their positions to advance personal views. Advocating a different approach - one that eschews ideology but still ...

Constitutional fictions

a unified theory of constitutional facts

David Faigman's Constitutional Fictions is the first book-length examination of the role of fact-finding in constitutional cases. Because the role of facts is central to the day-to-day realities of constitutional law, Faigman provides an extraordinarily important analysis of a subject that has been largely ...

Scales of Justice

reimagining political space in a globalizing world

Until recently, struggles for justice proceeded against the background of a taken-for-granted frame: the bounded territorial state. With that 'Westphalian' picture of political space assumed by default, the scope of justice was rarely subject to explicit dispute. Today, the scope of justice is hotly contested ...

Percorsi del "nuovo costituzionalismo"

Il volume comprende una raccolta di scritti dell'Autore - pubblicati nel corso degli ultimi anni - intesi ad evidenziare i percorsi di un "nuovo costituzionalismo" che fuoriesce dalla dimensione strettamente statalistica del costituzionalismo classico, in ottiche multilivello e policentriche, procedendo dai livelli sopranazionali di ordinamento per ...

Regionalismo e sovranazionalità

Il volume intende offrire un quadro dei problemi che, nel sistema costituzionale "multilivello" affermatosi in Europa, si pongono per effetto del doppio intreccio federale: per effetto cioè della presenza, in alcuni Stati membri, di entità sub-statali dotate di competenze legislative costituzionalmente garantite. Questa tematica viene ...

El Derecho a la libertad de expresión frente al Derecho a la no discriminación

tensiones, relaciones e implicaciones

INDICE: Algo sobre la libertad de expresión. El derecho de toda persona a no ser discriminada.Las tensiones entre la libertad de expresión y el derecho a no ser discriminado. Las relaciones positivas entre la libertad de expresión y el derecho a no ser discriminado ...

Derecho procesal constitucional

Origen científico (1928-1956)

El lector tiene en sus manos un estudio de suma actualidad, que confronta el movimiento europeo de la justicia constitucional con el movimiento latinoamericano del Derecho procesal constitucional. El primero, como un desarrollo de la dogmática constitucional. El segundo, como construcción del procesalismo científico. El ...

Principios y votos

el Tribunal Constitucional y la política

«No seguirás a la mayoría para hacer el mal», tal es la enseñanza que ya en los comienzos (Éxodo 23, 2) se da a los jueces que no traicionan su deber. En este librito, fruto de su experiencia de nueve años como magistrado del Tribunal ...

Constitutional politics in the Middle East

with special reference to Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan

This is the first comparative and interdisciplinary study of constitutional politics and constitution- making in the Middle East. This innovative study provides an up-to-date analysis of the political and constitutional struggles in the Middle East. It is an important and topical issue that will be ...

Originalism, federalism, and the American Constitutional Enterprise

a historical inquiry

In this lively historical examination of American federalism, a leading scholar in the field refutes the widely accepted notion that the founding fathers carefully crafted a constitutional balance of power between the states and the federal government. Edward A. Purcell Jr. bases his argument on ...

Weak courts, strong rights

judicial review and social welfare rights in comparative constitutional Law

Unlike many other countries, the United States has few constitutional guarantees of social welfare rights such as income, housing, or healthcare. In part this is because many Americans believe that the courts cannot possibly enforce such guarantees. However, recent innovations in constitutional design in other ...

Derecho de la información

una perspectiva comparada de España e Iberoamérica

Un libro capaz de ofrecer una visión completa, rigurosa, pero general, de las libertades informativas en el entorno de habla hispana; un libro para una comunidad cultural llena de peculiaridades nacionales que nos separan, pero que especialmente comparte lengua, cultura, costumbres y, en la mayoría ...

Constitutionalism

ancient and modern

This book explores the very roots of liberty by examining the development of modern constitutionalism from its ancient and medieval origins. Derived from a series of lectures delivered by Charles Howard McIlwain at Cornell University in the 1938-39 academic year, these lectures provide a useful ...

50 años de Corte Constitucional italiana. 25 años de Tribunal Constitucional español

IV Jornadas italo-españolas de Justicia Constitucional