Neoconstitucionalismo

concepción epistemológica

Desde tiempos de Platón ha sido fundamental para el sostenimiento de cualquier comunidad distinguir entre una condena y un fallo arbitrario. En nuestros días, el juez, en tanto intérprete preparado de la norma positiva, debe sumar al conocimiento exhaustivo del derecho la reflexión acerca de ...

Derecho constitucional comparado

Tomo 3: Constituciones y fuentes del Derecho

Este tercer tomo del tratado de Derecho constitucional comparado es continuador de los dedicados a la metodología de la comparación constitucional y al relativo a los sistemas constitucionales (dos volúmenes). Al describir las fuentes del Derecho (o fuentes jurídicas, o legales) que operan en el ...

Europe's functional Constitution

a theory of constitutionalism beyond the State

Constitutionalism has become a byword for legitimate government, but is it fated to lose its relevance as constitutional states relinquish power to international institutions? This book evaluates the extent to which constitutionalism, as an empirical idea and normative ideal, can be adapted to institutions beyond ...

After Public Law

Public law has been conceived in many different ways, sometimes overlapping, often conflicting. However in recent years a common theme running through the discussions of public law is one of loss. What function and future can public law have in this rapidly transforming landscape, where ...

The Public's Law

origins and architecture of progressive democracy

The Public's Law is a theory and history of democracy in the American administrative state. The book describes how American Progressive thinkers - such as John Dewey, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Woodrow Wilson - developed a democratic understanding of the state from their study ...

Writing the United Kingdom Constitution

Our unwritten Constitution is past its sell-by date. If the Union is to be preserved we must recognise the UK as a federal country along the lines of Canada and Australia, and soon. Such is the argument made by Brice Dickson in this lucid and ...

Movimientos indígenas y territorialidad en América Latina

Los movimientos indígenas recientes han centrado sus reivindicaciones en la defensa de la territorialidad y de unos derechos étnicos dentro de unos estados que no siempre han sido proclives a reconocer el pluralismo de sus ciudadanos. Comprender tal realidad exige una mirada pluridisciplinaria, por lo ...

The changing Constitution

Since its first edition in 1985, The Changing Constitution has cemented its reputation for providing concise, scholarly and thought-provoking essays on the key issues surrounding the UK's constitutional development, and the current debates around reform. The ninth edition of this highly successful volume is ...

Historia mínima de las Constituciones en México

Desde su nacimiento la vida constitucional ha estado definida por momentos históricos y finalidades precisas; se ha visto envuelta constantemente por anhelos e ideales, pero siempre ha estado supeditada a las realidades que la enmarcan. El estudio histórico del constitucionalismo, por tanto, no debe ceñirse ...

Prohibition the Constitution, and State's rights

Colorado's legalization of marijuana spurred intense debate about the extent to which the Constitution preempts state-enacted laws and statutes. Colorado's legal cannabis program generated a strange scenario in which many politicians, including many who freely invoke the Tenth Amendment, seemed to be attacking ...

Les sources constitutionnelles du Droit Administratif

introduction au Droit Public

Droit constitutionnel et droit administratif sont traditionnellement étudiés comme deux disciplines distinctes. Les liens qui unissent ces deux branches du droit public sont pourtant très étroits. La mise en oeuvre de la question prioritaire de constitutionnalité les a encore renforcés. Des impératifs constitutionnels imposent des ...

Reconstructing judicial review

This book offers a new interpretation of judicial review in England and Wales as being concerned with the advancement of justice and good governance, as opposed to being concerned primarily with ultra vires or common law constitutionalism. It is developed both from examining the functions ...

Discrimination as stigma

a theory of anti-discrimination Law

This monograph reconceptualises discrimination law as fundamentally concerned with stigma. Using sociological and socio-psychological theories of stigma, the author presents an 'anti-stigma principle', promoting it as a method to determine the scope of legal protection from discrimination. The anti-stigma principle recognises the role of institutional ...

El concepto de ley en la Constitución Alemana

Sobre la esencia de la constitución

Esta obra presenta una traducción de los principales trabajos de Lassalle sobre la idea de Constitución, precedida de un estudio preliminar acerca de la vida del político alemán y su obra.

The triangular constitution

constitutional pluralism in Ireland, the EU and the ECHR

This book offers a new account of modern European constitutionalism. It uses the Irish constitutional order to demonstrate that, right across the European Union, the national constitution can no longer be understood on its own, in isolation from the EU legal order or from the ...

Fundamental rights and legal consequences of criminal conviction

The legal position of convicted offenders is complex, as are the social consequences that can result from a criminal conviction. After they have served their sentences, custodial or not, convicted offenders often continue to be subject to numerous restrictions, in many cases indefinitely, due to ...

European constitutions compared

This book is a comprehensive study of the institutional setting of European Constitutions and provides a systematic study of the constitutional principles and organisation of state powers. The following issues are addressed: Terminology; Notion and Functions of Constitution; Sources of Constitutional Law; Constituent and Amending ...

Courts without cases

the law and politics of advisory opinions

Since 1875, Canadian courts have been permitted to act as advisors alongside their ordinary, adjudicative role. This book offers the first detailed examination of that role from a legal perspective. When one thinks of courts, it is most often in the context of deciding cases ...

Constituição, Lei Penal e Controlo de Constitucionalidade

Na evolução da Constituição também como fundamento do direito penal problematizam-se as manifestações atuais da intervenção penal no seu confronto com disposições e princípios constitucionais, os parâmetros de controlo da constitucionalidade de normas penais, os direitos fundamentais e os interesses constitucionalmente protegidos como referente de ...