What are freedoms for?

We generally suppose that it is our right to freedom which allows us to make the choices that shape our lives. The right to have an abortion is called "freedom of choice" because, it is said, a woman should be free to chose between giving ...

Antes de que nos ataquen de nuevo

Los atentados terroristas conducen habitualmente a la aprobación de leyes represivas; con ello se entra en un círculo vicioso que amenaza seriamente a nuestras libertades. En este libro clarividente, Bruce Ackerman mira al futuro y presenta una alternativa a la vez intuitiva y práctica. Nos ...

Sociedad multicultural y Derechos Fundamentales

ÍNDICE (RESUMEN).: Doctrina jurisprudencial sobre las distintas confesiones religiosas y la problemática de la convivencia entre ellas (Andrés Ollero). Counter-terrorist measures, human rights and multiculturalism in the United-Kingdom (Anthony Lester). Medidas antiterroristas, derechos humanos y multiculturalismo en el Reino Unido(Anthony Lester). Multiculturalismo y ciudadanía ...

Interstate disputes

the Supreme Court's original jurisdiction

With respect to "controversies between two or more states," the U.S. Constitution grants original jurisdiction to the U.S. Supreme Court, and in 1789 Congress made exclusive the Court's jurisdiction over interstate disputes. In this book, Joseph F. Zimmerman examines the role of ...

The language of liberal constitutionalism

This book explores two basic questions regarding constitutional theory. First, in view of a commitment to democratic self-rule and widespread disagreement on questions of value, how is the creation of a legitimate constitutional regime possible? Second, what must be true about a constitution if the ...

Poder Ejecutivo

INDICE: Introducción. Estructura. Globalización y Poder Ejecutivo. El alcance del Poder Ejecutivo. Controles sobre el Poder Ejecutivo. Crisis y poderes presidenciales.

Federalism, citizenship and Quebec

ddebating multinationalism

Canadians often imagine their country as a multicultural democracy, while a few go further to claim that the country's diversity can be characterized as multinational in its social and institutional make-up. In "Federalism, Citizenship, and Quebec", Alain-G. Gagnon and Raffaele Iacovino reveal how this ...

The constitutional systems of the Australian States and territories

This book outlines the constitutional systems of the six Australian states and ten Commonwealth territories. It begins with their history, basic features, role and future within the Australian federation. Its primary focus is on the binding constitutional restrictions which impact on their parliaments and governments ...

The Constitution's text in foreign affairs

This book describes the constitutional law of foreign affairs, derived from the historical understanding of the Constitution's text. It examines timeless and recurring foreign affairs controversies - such as the role of the president and Congress, the power to enter armed conflict, and the power ...

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 ...

Estado de no derecho

emergencia y derechos constitucionales

La invocación del estado de emergencia ha servido a los poderes públicos para imponer severas restricciones a los derechos individuales y sociales que no armonizan con el contenido de la libertad que anida en la Constitución Nacional.

Constitunionalism and the role of parliaments

Modern constitutionalism has put a lot of hopes in parliaments but there is some consensus that these hopes have not been entirely fulfilled. At the same time, the role of parliaments in contemporary democracies continues to evolve as parliaments are faced with new challenges. How ...

Rebuilding Leviathan

party competition and state exploitation in port-comunist democracies

Why do some governing parties limit their opportunistic behaviour and constrain the extraction of private gains from the state? This analysis of post-communist state reconstruction provides surprising answers to this fundamental question of party politics. Across the post-communist democracies, governing parties have opportunistically reconstructed the ...

Contrôle de constitutionnalité et normes visées par la Constitution française

recherches sur la constitutionalité par renvoi

Prix de thèse du Conseil constitutionnel Face à la diversité et au foisonnement des normes [...] visées par la Constitution française, il fallait conduire une étude relative à l#impact de ces normes sur l#exercice du contrôle de constitutionnalité. Tel est l#objet de la ...

Estatutos de las regiones italianas I

INDICE: Estatuto de la región de los Abruzos. Estatuto de la región de Apulia (Puglia). Estatuto de la región de Calabria. Estatuto de la región de Emilia-Romaña (Emilia-Romagna). Estatuto de la región del Lacio (Lazio). Estatuto de la región de Liguria. Estatuto de la región ...

Constitutional dilemmas

conflicts of fundamental legal rights in Europe and the USA

This book deals with one of the most important issues of philosophy of law and constitutional thought: how to understand clashes of fundamental rights, such as the conflict between free speech and privacy. The main argument of this book is that much can be learned ...

Droit constitutionnel critique

Cet ouvrage tente d'inaugurer une approche critique du droit constitutionnel occidental démocratique ; une approche capable de faire apparaître la dimension métaphysique et surtout théologique de ce droit. Il démontre que ses concepts directeurs (Constitution, Souveraineté, etc.) font nécessairement appel à l'idée de Dieu ...

Il diritto di asilo nell'ordenamento costituzionale italiano

un'introduzione

Il volume approfondisce con sapienza il tema del diritto di asilo, analizzando la normativa costituzionale così come la legislazione vigente e come si è sviluppata riforma dopo riforma. Ne risulta un'opera dall'indiscusso valore scientifico ma anche con importanti addentellati pratici per l'avvocato ...

The Constitution as treaty

the international legal constitutionalist approach to the U.S. Constitution

The Constitution as Treaty addresses U.S. constitutional interpretation from a novel, yet originalist perspective: the U.S. Constitution is a treaty. As a treaty, the Constitution must be construed in conformity with the United States' international legal obligations. This book specifically examines how federal ...

Los regímenes electorales territoriales en los Estados compuestos

Alemania, Estados Unidos e Italia

El libro tiene por objeto el estudio del grado de homogeneidad de los regímenes electorales en los Estados compuestos y analizar las causas de dicho fenómeno. En este sentido, a pesar de la existencia de la competencia y de la posibilidad de crear un régimen ...