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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? ...
Constituent Power and the Law
This book examines the relationship between constituent power and the law, and the place of the former in constitutional history, drawing from constitutional theory beyond the Anglo-American sphere, with new material made available for the first time to English readers.
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.
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...
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...
The Colombian Peace Agreement
This book is the first systematic, interdisciplinary examination of the peace agreement signed between the Colombian Government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia to end one of the largest and most violent conflicts in the Western Hemisphere. It discusses the achievements, failures, and challenges of this innovative peace agreement and its implications for Colombia’s future. Contributors include negotiators of the Agreement, judges of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, representatives of the civil society, and leading academic experts in peace studies, human rights, international law, criminal law, transitional justice, political science, and philosophy. Based on the premise that peace is a form of transferable social knowledge, and therefore necessitates transformative social learning, the volume also discusses what other countries can learn from the Colombian experience. This book will be of much interest to students of peace and conflict studies, transitional justice, Latin American politics, human rights, civil wars and International Relations.
Ensayos de teoría constitucional y derecho internacional
CONTENIDO: Teoría constitucional - La constitución como fuente del derecho y sistema de fuetes - Necesidad e importancia de los tribunales constitucionales en un estado social de derecho - El control de constitucionalidad - La interpretación constitucional en el estado social de derecho - La interpretación constitucional colombiana de la familia - Perspectivas del constitucionalismo moderno - Las relacione entre la protección nacional e internacional de los derechos humanos - La tendencia hacia la internacionalización del derecho - Seguridad, terrorismo y derechos humanos - Interpretación en derecho internacional - La importancia y utilidad de la convención de Panamá de 1975 sobre arbitraje comercial internacional - Intervención humanitaria y derecho a la asistencia humanitaria - El diferendo limítrofe con Nicaragua sobre el Archipiélago de San Andrés y Providencia - Valor jurídico de las resoluciones de las organizaciones internacionales.
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.
