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 ...

Quale giustizia per i Diritti di libertà?

Diritti fondamentali, effettività delle garanzie giurisdizionali e techniche di tutela inibitoria

Il volume affronta il tema dei diritti fondamentali e partitamente dei cd. diritti di terza e quarta generazione dalla peculiare angolazione delle tecniche e dei rimedi giurisdizionali di tutela. La trattazione attinge il suo nucleo ispiratore dalla policromica varietà e complessità dei diritti di libertà ...

Les services publics constitutionnels

Existe-t-il des limites à la privatisation de grands services publics tels que l'armée, la justice, la police, la monnaie ou les prisons? En d'autres termes, existe-t-il des limites à la privatisation de l'État? Les efforts déployés par le secteur privé encouragé par ...

Zustand und Perspektiven des deutschen Bundesstaates

Die Frage nach Legitimation und Zukunft des deutschen Bundesstaates ist angesichts der Ausformung des unitarisch-kooperativen Föderalismus und der mit ihm verbundenen Verflechtungs- und Blockadephänomene erneut in das Blickfeld einer Reformdebatte gerückt. Vor diesem Hintergrund diskutieren und analysieren im vorliegenden Sammelband Vertreter aus Staatswissenschaft und Staatspraxis ...

Rights before courts

a study of Constitutional Courts in Postcommunist States of Central and Eastern Europe

Challenging the conventional wisdom that constitutional courts are the best device that democratic systems have for the protection of individual rights, Wojciech Sadurski examines carefully the most recent wave of activist constitutional courts: those that have emerged after the fall of communism in Central and ...

Estudios sobre la Constitución ecuatoriana de 1998

Los estudios sobre la Constitución Política de la República del Ecuador que se publican en este libro se han realizado en el marco del convenio de cooperación académica suscrito entre la Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (Sede Ecuador), la Universidad de Valencia y la Fundación CEPS ...

Electing justice

fixing the Supreme Court nomination process

The nomination and confirmation of Supreme Court justices has, in recent years, become a battleground like no other. Bruising Senate confirmation hearings for failed nominee Robert Bork and successful nominee Clarence Thomas left the reputation of all branches of government in disarray and the participants--and ...

Libertà di manifestazione del pensiero e giurisprudenza costituzionale

dottorato di ricerca in "Giustizia costituzionale e diritti fondamentali": Terze giornate italo-spagnole di giustizia costituzionale, Lipari, 1-2 ottobre 2004

La constitutionnalisation de l'exigence de sécurité juridique en Droit français

L'exigence de sécurité juridique a envahi le discours juridique français, ce qui est symptomatique du besoin social accru de sécurité qui caractérise de manière générale les sociétés modernes. L'ampleur du questionnement au sujet de la sécurité juridique conduit à considérer qu'elle doit ...

Standards et droits fondamentaux devant le Conseil Constitutionnel français et la Cour Européenne des Droits de l'Homme

Une étude approfondie de la protection juridictionnelle des droits fondamentaux démontre que le juge, constitutionnel ou européen, fonde désormais son raisonnement sur des principes communs que l'on doit qualifier de standards. Devant le Conseil constitutionnel français et la Cour européenne des droits de l ...

Welfare and the Constitution

Welfare and the Constitution defends a largely forgotten understanding of the U.S. Constitution: the positive or "welfarist" view of Abraham Lincoln and the Federalist Papers. Sotirios Barber challenges conventional scholarship by arguing that the government has a constitutional duty to pursue the well-being of ...

Restoring the lost Constitution

the presumption of liberty

The U.S. Constitution found in school textbooks and under glass in Washington is not the one enforced today by the Supreme Court. In Restoring the Lost Constitution, Randy Barnett argues that since the nation's founding, but especially since the 1930s the courts have ...