Originalism and the good constitution

Originalism holds that the U.S. Constitution should be interpreted according to its meaning at the time it was enacted. In their innovative defense of originalism, John McGinnis and Michael Rappaport maintain that the text of the Constitution should be adhered to by the Supreme ...

Framed

America's 51 constitutions and the crisis of governance

In his widely acclaimed volume Our Undemocratic Constitution, Sanford Levinson boldly argued that our Constitution should not be treated with "sanctimonious reverence," but as a badly flawed document deserving revision. Now Levinson takes us deeper, asking what were the original assumptions underlying our institutions, and ...

The Law of the Constitution

The Law of the Constitution has been the main doctrinal influence upon English constitutional thought since the late-nineteenth century. It acquired and long retained extraordinary legal authority, despite fierce criticism and many changes in law and government. By many, it was treated as a canonical ...

Latin American Constitutionalism,1810-2010

the engine room of the Constitution

Latin America possesses an enormously rich constitutional history, but this legal history has only recently begun to be subjected to scholarly inquiry. As Roberto Gargarella contends, contemporary constitutional and political theory has a great deal to learn from this history, as Latin American constitutionalism has ...

The Oxford edition of Dicey

The Oxford Edition of Dicey provides sources with which to reassess the extraordinary authority and lasting influence of Dicey's canonical text Lectures Introductory to the Study of the Law of the Constitution. The first volume consists of Dicey's rare first edition in its ...

Comparative constitutionalism

The Oxford Edition of Dicey provides sources with which to reassess the extraordinary authority and lasting influence of Dicey's canonical text. Volume Two, Comparative Constitutionalism, provides a complement to Dicey's The Law of the Constitution. These largely unpublished comparative constitutional lectures were written ...

The Oxford handbook of comparative Constitutional Law

The field of comparative constitutional law has grown immensely over the past couple of decades. Once a minor and obscure adjunct to the field of domestic constitutional law, comparative constitutional law has now moved front and centre. Driven by the global spread of democratic government ...

The Oxford edition of Dicey

The Oxford Edition of Dicey provides sources with which to reassess the extraordinary authority and lasting influence of Dicey's canonical text Lectures Introductory to the Study of the Law of the Constitution. The first volume consists of Dicey's rare first edition in its ...

Israeli constitutional Law in the making

In the domain of comparative constitutionalism, Israeli constitutional law is a fascinating case study constituted of many dilemmas. It is moving from the old British tradition of an unwritten constitution and no judicial review of legislation to fully-fledged constitutionalism endorsing judicial review and based on ...

The battle for Britain

Scotland and the independence referendum

A 300-year-old union. A comprehensive debate. A historic decision. On 18 September 2014, Scots will decide their future: should the country quit the United Kingdom and take control of its own destiny, or should it remain part of what advocates call the most successful political ...

El control de constitucionalidad

Este libro trabaja el control judicial de constitucionalidad. En este sentido examina los diversos mecanismos judiciales que permiten la defensa de la supremacía e integridad de la Constitución. Orgánicamente el texto ha sido dispuesto en once secciones, destinadas a cada una de las modalidades del ...

Libertad de expresión

entre tradición y renovación: ensayos en homenaje a Owen Fiss

Owen Fiss es uno de los académicos jurídicos más importantes de los Estados Unidos. Su obra inmensa, que abarca el derecho constitucional, el derecho procesal y la filosofía del derecho, se ha ocupado de mostrar, en lo fundamental, cómo el derecho encarna la razón pública ...

The Constitution and the future of criminal justice in America

The Constitution and the Future of Criminal Justice in America brings together leading scholars from law, psychology and criminology to address timely and important topics in US criminal justice. The book tackles cutting-edge issues related to terrorism, immigration and transnational crime, and to the increasingly ...

Sovranità Vs. sovranazionalità

Il nuovo fascicolo di Percorsi Costituzionali è dedicato al tema sovranità in relazione alla sovranazionalità. Da tempo si legge sulla sovranità in declino addirittura erosa dalla sovranazionalità, ovvero frantumata dalla globalizzazione. Si assite pertanto alla sottoposizione a torsione di un concetto secolare, quale quello di ...

How constitutions change

a comparative study

The constitutional arrangements in many countries are changing, for a range of reasons, including internal and external pressures, and this set of essays explores how those changes happen. Changes may be formal, involving amendments to the texts of Constitutions or the passage of legislation of ...

Constitución y Poder Judicial

INDICE: CAPÍTULO PRIMERO. La jurisdicción. Tema 1. La jurisdicción. Tema 2. Poder judicial, poder legislativo, poder ejecutivo. Tema 3. La predeterminación del juez. Tema 4. Órganos judiciales estatales (i). Tema 5. Órganos judiciales estatales (ii). Tema 6. Juzgados y tribunales no integrados en el poder ...

Estudios sobre teoría constitucional

En esta obra se publican una serie de trabajos que demuestran la vocación no solamente especulativa de Guastini, sino también su talante de jurista atento a lo que sucede a su alrededor. Los artículos seleccionados se refieren a una gama bastante amplia de temas de ...

Constitucionalismo y Judicial Review

El presente volumen recoge una selección de algunos de los últimos trabajos del profesor Mark Tushnet, centrados en el debate en torno al constitucionalismo y la Judicial Review que él acepta en su versión débil, en la medida que considera que solo así se garantizan ...

Teoría constitucional del reproche penal

programa de un Derecho penal constitucional

Acerca de la importancia de un proyecto constitucional del delito. Punibilidad desde la Constitución. El sustento fáctico-objetivo de la culpabilidad. Construcción de la culpabilidad desde un esquema constitucional. El colapso de la culpabilidad 2013

Yo soy Malala

la joven que defendió el derecho a la educación y fue tiroteada por los talibanes

Cuando los talibanes tomaron el control del valle de Swat en Pakistán, una niña alzó su voz. Malala Yousafzai se negó a ser silenciada y luchó por su derecho a la educación. El martes 9 de octubre de 2012, con quince años de edad, estuvo ...