Civil rights and liberties in the 21st Century

This up-to-date analysis of the Supreme Court's landmark rulings on civil rights and liberties is a discussion of the facts, legal issues, and constitutional questions surrounding those rulings. Domino's book serves as either a core text in courses on civil liberties and civil ...

Construyendo un estándar europeo de derechos fundamentales

un recorrido por la jurisprudencia TJUE tras la entrada en vigor de la Carta

La Carta, ya cerca de los diez años de vigencia efectiva, es hoy el documento básico en esa tarea de proteger los derechos fundamentales allí donde el derecho de la Unión Europea es aplicable o relevante. Y el Tribunal de Luxemburgo ha elaborado ya un ...

State constitutional politics

governing by amendment in the American States

Since the US Constitution came into force in 1789, it has been amended just twenty-seven times, with ten of those amendments coming in the first two years following ratification. By contrast, state constitutions have been completely rewritten on a regular basis, and the current documents ...

La prueba en el proceso

La prueba es uno de los temas protagónicos en los estudios jurídicos recientes. Los aportes de la epistemología a este tema han generado no solo una renovación al modo de estudiar este importante tema, sino un desafío a los modos tradicionales de concebirlo. Si a ...

Aborto

y la autonomía sexual de las mujeres

Patricia Gonzalez se ha tomado en serio las ideas de las mujeres, y especialmente, las propuestas de las mujeres latinoamericanas para repensar y conmover el concepto de autonomía en clave feminista. Los feminismos indígenas y académicos de nuestra región proveen el sustrato de su conceptualización ...

Corte Costituzionale, Corte di Cassazione, Consiglio di Stato

tre giurisdizioni apicali

All’interno di un sistema costituzionale come il nostro, che ha come suo scopo costante la protezione del cittadino, la Corte Costituzionale è pensata e costruita come organismo supremo di garanzia. Come spiega Paolo Grossi nel suo saggio, essa non è chiamata a giudicare le ...

Il costituzionalismo dei diritti

Il volume analizza il discorso dei diritti come elemento portante del costituzionalismo contemporaneo. Dopo aver ricostruito le idee che lo caratterizzano (la centralità e perfino l’affollamento dei diritti fondamentali nel discorso giuridico-politico, il crescente ruolo politico della giurisdizione ordinaria e costituzionale, l’aprirsi degli ...

Giustizia costituzionale

II. Oggetti, procedimenti, decisioni

Il manuale offre un panorama completo della giustizia costituzionale. Nel primo volume se ne ricostruisce la storia concettuale e politica, si descrive l’uso giudiziario della costituzione e si fornisce una interpretazione della attuale fase critica del diritto costituzionale e delle sue prospettive. Il secondo ...

Giustizia costituzionale

I. Storia, principi, interpretazioni

Il manuale offre un panorama completo della giustizia costituzionale. Nel primo volume se ne ricostruisce la storia concettuale e politica, si descrive l’uso giudiziario della costituzione e si fornisce una interpretazione della attuale fase critica del diritto costituzionale e delle sue prospettive. Il secondo ...

El precedente y su significado en el Derecho constitucional de los Estados Unidos

El precedente, de por si, es todo un problema. Casi diría que es el corazón del funcionamiento del Common Law, una venerable familia jurídica que opera admirablemente. Y tiene muchas aristas, la primera de las cuales es cuándo, cómo y en qué oportunidad se sigue ...

El derecho a la vivienda en el Derecho constitucional europeo

El objeto de esta investigación es el derecho a la vivienda, analizando su protección en cuanto derecho constitucional cuyas garantías se encuentran normalmente más limitadas que las de otros derechos de esa naturaleza. A pesar de su proclamación constitucional en algunos de los Estados miembros ...

Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, and Human Rights

a critical introduction

Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, and Human Rights provides an introduction to public law which draws on developments in politics, the law and society to help the reader gain a fundamental appreciation of the law in its wider context. In addition, it explores the latest ongoing ...

Crisis and constitutionalism

roman political thought from the fall of the Republic to the Age of Revolution

Crisis and Constitutionalism argues that the late Roman Republic saw, for the first time in the history of political thought, the development of a normative concept of constitution-the concept of a set of constitutional norms designed to guarantee and achieve certain interests of the individual ...

Being watched

legal challenges to government surveillance

The tension between national security and civil rights is nowhere more evident than in the fight over government domestic surveillance. Governments must be able to collect information at some level, but surveillance has become increasingly controversial due to its more egregious uses and abuses, which ...

The DNA of constitutional justice in Latin America

politics, governance, and judicial design

In recent times there has been a dramatic change in the nature and scope of constitutional justice systems in the global south. New or reformed constitutions have proliferated, protecting social, economic, and political rights. While constitutional courts in Latin America have traditionally been used as ...

Without precedent

chief justice John Marshall and his time

No member of America's Founding Generation had a greater impact on the Constitution and the Supreme Court than John Marshall, and no one did more to preserve the delicate unity of the fledgling United States. From the nation's founding in 1776 and for ...

Liberal suppression

Section 501(c)(3) and the taxation of speech

In the course of exempting religious, educational, and charitable organizations from federal income tax, section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code requires them to refrain from campaign speech and much speech to influence legislation. These speech restrictions have seemed merely technical adjustments, which ...

Independencia, Estado y Constitución

La presente selección de textos pretende exponer la evolución del pensamiento de Jay entre 1774 y 1788, centrándose sobre todo en su crítica al sistema confederal, sus propuestas de reforma y la defensa de la Constitución de 1787, sobre todo en su Carta al pueblo ...

Teoría de la Constitución

Este título¸ publicado originalmente por Ariel en 1986, sigue siendo considerado la auténtica biblia dentro de la teoría constitucional del mundo occidental, y sigue siendo una referencia en las facultades de Ciencias Políticas y Derecho de nuestro país. Una recuperación de un título imprescindible para ...

Essential Supreme Court decisions

summaries of leading cases in U.S. Constitutional Law

The only reference guide to Supreme Court cases organized both topically and chronologically within chapters so that readers understand how cases fit into a historical context, the 17th edition has been updated with 20 new cases, including landmark decisions on such topics as campaign finance ...