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Introduction -- The lawless unity of the people : the legalists and radicals' consensus -- Extraordinary adaptation : an illegal and plural people -- The enemies clash : lawless constitution-making in Venezuela and Ecuador -- The lover's quarrel : partially inclusive extraordinary adaptation in Colombia. The enemies' truce : inclusive extraordinary adaptation in Bolivia -- Conclusion.
This is the first annual report on armed conflicts around the world, providing detailed study of each conflict which occurred in 2012, describing its classification, the applicable norms, key actors, methods of warfare, and the number of casualties. It also analyses the key legal issues that arose in the context of these armed conflicts.
Comparative constitutional law has a long and distinguished history in intellectual thought and in the construction of public law. As political actors and the people who create or modify their constitutional orders, they often wish to learn from the experience and learning of others. This cross-fertilization and mutual interaction has only accelerated with the onset of globalization, which has transformed the world into an interconnected web that facilitates dialogue and linkages across international and regional structures. Oxford Comparative Constitutionalism seeks to publish scholarship of the highest quality in constitutional law that deepens our knowledge of local, national, regional, and global phenomena through the lens of comparative public law. Book jacket.
Law is fast globalizing as a field, and many lawyers, judges and political leaders are engaged in a process of comparative "borrowing". But this new form of legal globalization has darksides: it is not just a source of inspiration for those seeking to strengthen and improve democratic institutions and policies. It is increasingly an inspiration - and legitimation device - for those seeking to erode democracy by stealth, under the guise of a form of faux liberal democratic cover. Abusive Constitutional Borrowing: Legal globalization and the subversion of liberal democracy outlines this phenomenon, how it succeeds, and what we can do to prevent it. This book address current patterns of democratic retrenchment and explores its multiple variants and technologies, considering the role of legitimating ideologies that help support different modes of abusive constitutionalism. An important contribution to both legal and political scholarship, this book will of interest to all those working in the legal and political disciplines of public law, constitutional theory, political theory, and political science.
This book focuses on how human rights would regulate non-lethal weapons through the growing interplay between humanitarian law and human rights law.
Comparative constitutional law has a long and distinguished history in intellectual thought and in the construction at public law. Political actors and the people who create or modify their constitutional orders often wish to learn from the experience and learning of others. This cross-fertilization and mutual interaction has only accelerated with the onset of globalization, which has transformed the world into an interconnected web that facilitates dialogue and linkages across international and regional structures. Oxford Comparative Constitutionalism seeks to publish scholarship of the highest quality in constitutional law that deepens our knowledge of local, national, regional, and global phenomena through the lens of comparative public low. Book jacket.
Through a comparative analysis of the United States, Canada, Belgium, and the EU, this book examines the constitutional framework in which foreign relations are conducted in federal unions. In doing so, this book contributes to debates on how the EU's foreign affairs constitution should be structured.
Democratic dysfunction can arise in both 'at risk' and well-functioning constitutional systems. It can threaten a system's responsiveness to both minority rights claims and majoritarian constitutional understandings. Responsive Judicial Review aims to counter this dysfunction using examples from both the global north and global south, including leading constitutional courts in the US, UK, Canada, India, South Africa, and Colombia, as well as select aspects of the constitutional jurisprudence of courts in Australia, Fiji, Hong Kong, and Korea. In this book, Dixon argues that courts should adopt a sufficiently 'dialogic' approach to countering relevant democratic blockages and look for ways to...
This book examines the subject of constitutional unamendability from comparative, doctrinal, empirical, historical, political and theoretical perspectives. It explores and evaluates the legitimacy of unamendability in the various forms that exist in constitutional democracies. Modern constitutionalism has given rise to a paradox: can a constitutional amendment be unconstitutional? Today it is normatively contested but descriptively undeniable that a constitutional amendment—one that respects the formal procedures of textual alteration laid down in the constitutional text—may be invalidated for violating either a written or unwritten constitutional norm. This phenomenon of an unconstituti...
Utilizing detailed case studies from Nigeria, Ethiopia, and South Africa, this title traces African constitutionalism from precolonial times to the present. The volume offers a new framework for understanding African constitutionalism and a range of practical proposals for its future development.