Constituonal rights after globalization

Ragionevolezza e legittimazione del sistema

Il principio del contraddittorio nella formazione della prova nella Costituzione italiana

analisi della giurisprudenza della Corte Costituzionale in tema di prova penale

Les grandes decisions du Conseil constitutionnel

Discrimination Law

text, cases and materials

Derecho constitucional y administrativo

Le gouvernement des juges et la lutte contre la législation sociale aux États-Unis

l'expérience américaine du contrôle judiciaire de la constitutionnalité des lois

Le "gouvernement" des juges ne heurte-t-il pas frontalement le sacro-saint principe de la séparation des pouvoirs que notre Déclaration des droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen associe étroitement à la notion même de Constitution ? N'évoque-t-il pas une immixtion abusive des juges dans la ...

The rise of american democracy

Jefferson to Lincoln

L'article 62, alinéa 2 de la constitution du octobre 1958

contribution à l'étude de l'autorité des decisions du conseil constitutionnel

L'article 62, alinéa 2 de la Constitution du octobre 1958 dispose que et <(> <<)>s'imposent aux pouvoirs publics et à toutes les autorités administratives et juridictionnelles>. En raison de la généralité des termes employés, l'étendue de l'autorité juridique des décisions du juge ...

A court divided

the rehnquist court end the future of constitucional law

Many think that the Rehnquist Court's most important division is between its liberals and its conservatives, when in reality the division lies between two types of Republican conservatives. Some#Rehnquist, Scalia, and Thomas#are in tune with the modern post-Reagan Republican Party, while Kennedy ...

Laws of fear

beyond the precautionary principle

What is the relationship between fear, danger, and the law? Cass Sunstein attacks the increasingly influential Precautionary Principle - the idea that regulators should take steps to protect against potential harms, even if causal chains are uncertain and even if we do not know that harms ...

Leggere la Costituzione

una lezione americana

Nella loro apparente limpidezza - dovuta all'impiego di termini generali (libertà, proprietà, diritti) - le Costituzioni sono in realtà testi insidiosi, che spesso gli interpreti fanno parlare in funzione delle proprie opinioni e priorità. Del testo della Costituzione americana, ad esempio, viene data di volta in ...

Our republican Constitution

This new book by Adam Tomkins sets out a radical vision of the British constitution. It argues that despite its outwardly monarchic form the constitution is profoundly informed, and indeed shaped, by values and practices of republicanism. The republican reading of the constitution presented in ...

Constitutional environmental rights

This book shows why a fundamental right to an adequate environment ought to be provided in the constitution of any modern democratic state. This book is the first to examine the question from the perspective of political theory. It explains why the right to an ...

The Constitution of independence

the development of constitutional theory in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand

The Constitution of Independence is a contribution to the newly rejuvenated subject of comparative Commonwealth constitutional law, politics, and history. In Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, a series of fascinating developments have been under way for more than a decade, characterized by independent thinking, experimentation ...

The politics of constitutional review in Germany

Constitutional courts have emerged as central institutions in many advanced democracies. This book investigates the sources and the limits of judicial authority, focusing on the central role of public support for judicial independence. The empirical sections of the book illustrate the theoretical argument in an ...

Constitución Española y Constitución Europea

análisis de la Declaración del Tribunal Constitucional (DTC 1/2004, de 13 de diciembre)

Obra que analiza el intenso debate que ha generado la compatibilidad o incompatibilidad de la Constitución de la UE con la Constitución española y sus necesarias reformas constitucionales. Este estudio incluye, además, como apéndice documental, diversos estudios sobre la Declaración del Tribunal Constitucional, (DTC 1 ...

El Referéndum en el sistema español de participación política

El referéndum se configura como un cauce para completar el ejercicio del poder político por los representantes populares. Nuestra Constitución atribuye la potestad legislativa a las Cortes Generales y a las Asambleas Legislativas de las Comunidades Autónomas. Sin embargo, determinadas decisiones estatales, por su especial ...

Revolution by judiciary

the structure of american contitutional Law

Although constitutional law is supposed to be fixed and enduring, its central narrative in the twentieth century has been one of radical reinterpretation - Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Bush v. Gore. What, if anything, justifies such radical reinterpretation? How does it work ...

Tratados con otros pueblos y derechos de otras gentes en la Constitución de Estados por América

Los Estados americanos surgen de la descolonización británica e hispana que tuvo lugar entre las últimas décadas del siglo XVIII y las primeras del XIX y se caracterizan por ser constitucionales de nacimiento, por constituirse mediante Constituciones. Pero no bastaron estas normas para constituirles y ...