La proporcionalidad como principio constitucional universal

El principio de proporcionalidad, con la ponderación como elemento protagónico, se consagró como parámetro de la restricción de los derechos fundamentales y de sus conflictos con otros principios constitucionales. Hoy es esencial para un constitucionalismo global que sirve de referencia a toda democracia.

Elementos para una teoría crítica del sistema prostitucional

Esta obra surge con la determinación de abordar la prostitución desde una mirada crítico-reflexiva, como una institución básica para la perpetuación de las sociedades patriarcales. Plantea con contundencia cómo es posible que los innegables avances de las mujeres hacia la igualdad vayan acompañados de una ...

Pillars of justice

lawyers and the liberal tradition

The constitutional theorist Owen Fiss explores the purpose and possibilities of life in the law through a moving account of thirteen lawyers who shaped the legal world during the past half century. He tries to identify the unique qualities of mind and character that made ...

The Fourth Amendment in an age of surveillance

The Fourth Amendment is facing a crisis. New and emerging surveillance technologies allow government agents to track us wherever we go, to monitor our activities online and offline, and to gather massive amounts of information relating to our financial transactions, communications, and social contacts. In ...

Constitución política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos comentada

El Centenario de nuestra Constitución nos invita a realizar ejercicios de reflexión, propuesta y divulgación de su contenido normativo. A menudo los trabajos editoriales sobre la Constitución han consistido en comentarios meramente doctrinarios que, pese a su valor académico, han soslayado el entendimiento práctico y ...

Control de convencionalidad

Derechos humanos. Sistema interamericano. Armonización entre la Constitución y los tratados. Sentencias, opiniones y consultas de la Corte IDH. Recomendaciones de la Comisión

Rights and retrenchment

the counterrevolution against federal litigation

This groundbreaking book contributes to an emerging literature that examines responses to the rights revolution that unfolded in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. Using original archival evidence and data, Stephen B. Burbank and Sean Farhang identify the origins of the counterrevolution against ...

Tribunales supranacionales y tribunales nacionales

En sus dos tomos, esta obra procura acompañar un debate que se viene desarrollando con particular intensidad a ambas márgenes del Atlántico: el alcance de las relaciones interordinamentales. Específicamente, la relación entre intérpretes nacionales y supranacionales en una materia común como los derechos humanos. A ...

Constitutional Ethos

liberal equality for the common good

Judges, courts, and scholars in the United States agree that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land, but there is much disagreement about its meaning. So what seems to be incontestable truth is riddled with disagreements about every day questions of decision making ...

Courts in federal countries

federalists or unitarists?

Courts are key players in the dynamics of federal countries since their rulings have a direct impact on the ability of governments to centralize and decentralize power. Courts in Federal Countries examines the role high courts play in thirteen countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany ...

Le Droit constitutionnel

Du jour où ni les dieux ni la nature ne furent plus consultés dans la mise en oeuvre de la vie collective, c'est à l'homme seul qu'il revint d'élaborer l'ordre politique jugé idéal. La Constitution est le fruit de cette ...

Proportionality and judicial activism

fundamental rights adjudication in Canada, Germany and South Africa

The principle of proportionality is currently one of the most discussed topics in the field of comparative constitutional law. Many critics claim that courts use the proportionality test as an instrument of judicial self-empowerment. Proportionality and Judicial Activism tests this hypothesis empirically; it systematically and ...

La dictadura judicial y la perversión del Estado de Derecho

El juez constitucional y la destrucción de la democracia en Venezuela

En un Estado de derecho es inconcebible que el Juez Constitucional, quien debería garantizar la supremacía de la Constitución y sus valores, pueda llegar a ser el instrumento para al contrario, garantizar la violación impune de la Constitución por los otros órganos del Estado, para ...

La deliberación en los tribunales constitucionales

¿Cómo deliberan los tribunales constitucionales? Durante mucho tiempo, esta cuestión no ha formado parte de las principales preocupaciones teóricas relativas a la jurisdicción constitucional. Los esfuerzos teóricos se dirigieron fundamentalmente a sacer cómo el juez debe decidir en los denominados casos difíciles y no a ...

A global political morality

Human Rights, democracy, and constitutionalism

In A Global Political Morality, Michael J. Perry addresses several related questions in human rights theory, political theory and constitutional theory. He begins by explaining what the term 'human right' means and then elaborates and defends the morality of human rights, which is the first ...

Presence of the cross in public spaces

experiences of selected european countries

The judgments of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Lautsi vs. Italy (3 November 2009 and 18 March 2011) served as a catalyst for the debate on the presence of the cross in the public space in a number of European ...

Free expression and democracy

a comparative analysis

Free Expression and Democracy takes on the assumption that limits on free expression will lead to authoritarianism or at least a weakening of democracy. That hypothesis is tested by an examination of issues involving expression and their treatment in countries included on The Economist's ...

Il governo parlamentare in Italia

"È consuetudine, metodologicamente giustificata, che ogni analisi, breve o più approfondita, sulla forma di governo nel periodo di vigenza dello Statuto, inizi con una riflessione sulle modalità della sua adozione. Lo Statuto albertino entrò in vigore il 4 marzo del 1848 «di nostra certa scienza ...

The classical liberal constitution

the uncertain quest for limited government

American liberals and conservatives alike take for granted a progressive view of the Constitution that took root in the early twentieth century. Richard A. Epstein laments this complacency which, he believes, explains America’s current economic malaise and political gridlock. Steering clear of well-worn debates ...

The Constitution Today

timeless lessons for the issues of our era

A leading legal scholar addresses the most important constitutional controversies of the past two decades and illuminates the Constitution's spirit and ongoing relevance America's Constitution, Chief Justice John Marshall famously observed in McCulloch v. Maryland, aspires “to endure for ages to come.” The ...