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Weak Constitutionalism
It has been frequently argued that democracy is protected and realized under constitutions that protect certain rights and establish the conditions for a functioning representative democracy. However, some democrats still find something profoundly unsettling about contemporary constitutional regimes. The participation of ordinary citizens in constitutional change in the world's most "advanced" democracies (such as the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom) is weak at best: the power of constitutional reform usually lies in the exclusive hands of legislatures. How can constitutions that can only be altered by those occupying positions of power be considered democratically legitimate? ...
Tres décadas de una promesa de país: una mirada a la descentralización territorial, al diseño institucional y a la democracia en la constitución de 1991
Esta obra colectiva presenta una investigación que recoge distintas reflexiones en torno a las promesas de descentralización de la ingeniería de la Constitución, que supone un esfuerzo institucional de coherencia entre la realidad socioeconómica y los mandatos constitucionales. Con este propósito, nuestra investigación colectiva se ha dividido en dos partes: 1) 30 años de construcción del diseño institucional, y 2) Descentralización, igualdad territorial y democracia: un análisis a la luz de los 30 años de la Constitución.
Global Canons in an Age of Contestation
Comparative constitutionalism emerged in its current form against the backdrop of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War. As that backdrop recedes into the past, it is being replaced by a more multi-polar and confusing world, and the current state of the discipline of comparative constitutionalism reflects this fragmentation and uncertainty. This has opened up space for new, more varied, and increasingly critical voices seeking to improve the project of democratic constitutionalism. But it also raises questions: What of the past, if anything, is worth preserving? Which more recent parts should be defining of the field? In this context, this book asks which are - or should be...
Constituent Power and the Law
Constituent power is the power to create new constitutions. Since it is frequently exercised during or after political revolutions, it has been historically associated with extra-legality and violations of the established legal order. This book examines the relationship between constituent power and the law and the place of constituent power in constitutional history, focusing on the legal and institutional implications that theorists, politicians, and judges have derived from it. Since the 18th and 19th centuries, commentators and citizens have relied on the concept of constituent power to defend the idea that electors have the right to instruct representatives, and that the creation of new...
Colombian Constitutional Law
Introduction to the Colombian constitution of 1991 and the Constitutional Court -- The role of the Constitutional Court -- Dignity and autonomy -- Equality -- Freedom of speech and freedom of religion -- Social rights -- The rights of victims and transitional justice -- The rights of indigenous peoples -- The president : problems of executive overreach -- The congress : problems of abdication and deliberation -- Constitutional amendment and the substitution of the constitution doctrine.
Transitional Justice, Distributive Justice, and Transformative Constitutionalism
This volume offers the first dedicated scholarly comparison of Colombia and South Africa in relation to the intersecting ideas of transitional justice, distributive justice, and transformative constitutionalism.
Fundamental Rights and the Legal Obligations of Business
This book develops an analytical legal framework for determining the substantive fundamental rights obligations of corporations.
Democratizing Constitutional Law
This volume critically discusses the relationship between democracy and constitutionalism. It does so with a view to respond to objections raised by legal and political philosophers who are sceptical of judicial review based on the assumption that judicial review is an undemocratic institution. The book builds on earlier literature on the moral justification of the authority of constitutional courts, and on the current attempts to develop a system on “weak judicial review”. Although different in their approach, the chapters all focus on devising institutions, procedures and, in a more abstract way, normative conceptions to democratize constitutional law. These democratizing strategies ma...
Tres décadas de una promesa de país
Esta obra colectiva presenta una investigación que recoge distintas reflexiones en torno a las promesas de descentralización de la ingeniería de la Constitución, que supone un esfuerzo institucional de coherencia entre la realidad socioeconómica y los mandatos constitucionales. Con este propósito, nuestra investigación colectiva se ha dividido en dos partes: 1) 30 años de construcción del diseño institucional, y 2) Descentralización, igualdad territorial y democracia: un análisis a la luz de los 30 años de la Constitución.
Constitutionalism
This compilation of twenty essays gathers some of the most prominent authors in constitutionalism and legal theory to critically examine classical debates, such as the role of judicial review in a democracy, the enforcement of socio-economic rights, the doctrine of unconstitutional amendments, and the theory of transitional justice.
