Debating Legal Pluralism and Constitutionalism PDF Download

Author: Guillaume Tusseau
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030344320
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 343

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The book gathers the general report and the national reports presented at the XXth General Congress of the IACL, in Fukuoka (Japan), on the topic “Debating legal pluralism and constitutionalism: new trajectories for legal theory in the global age”. Discussing the major contemporary changes occurring in and problems faced by domestic legal systems in the global age, the book describes how and to what extent these trends affect domestic legal orderings and practices, and challenges the traditional theoretical lenses that are offered to tackle them: constitutionalism and pluralism. Combining comparative law and comparative legal doctrine, and drawing on the national contributions, the general report concludes that most of the classic tools offered by legal doctrine are not appropriate to address most of today’s practical and theoretical global legal challenges, and as such, the book also offers new intellectual tools for the global age.

Author: Alberto López - Basaguren
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642277179
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 893

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Territorial autonomy in Spain has reached a crossroads. After over thirty years of development, the consensus regarding its appropriateness has started to crumble. The transformation project embodied by the reform of Statute of Catalonia (2006) has failed to achieve its most significant demands. Although the concept of Spain as a Federation is disputed -more within the country than beyond-, the evolution of the Spanish system needs to follow a markedly federalist path. In this perspective, reference models assume critical importance. This edition gathers the works of a broad group of European, American and Spanish experts who analyse the present-day challenges of their respective systems. The objective, thus, is to contribute ideas which might help to address the evolution of the Spanish system in the light of the experience of more established Federations. This second volume focuses its attention on the difficulties and challenges faced in two particular fields. On the one hand, the field of intergovernmental relations and, on the other, questions related to the integration and acknowledgement of diversity and of Fundamental Rights, with special reference to the cases of Canada and Spain. Finally, there is analysis of other specific aspects of the system of territorial autonomy in Spain.

Author: Ingrid Brena Sesma
Publisher: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
ISBN:
Category : Bioethics
Languages : es
Pages : 164

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Author: David Delaney
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1405153059
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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This short introduction conveys the complexities associated with the term "territory" in a clear and accessible manner. It surveys the field and brings theory to ground in the case of Palestine. A clear and accessible introduction to the complexities associated with the term "territory". Provides an interdisciplinary survey of the many strands of research in the field. Addresses specific areas including interpretations of territorial structures; the relationship between territoriality and scale; the validity and fluidity of territory; and the practical, social processes associated with territorial re-configurations. Stresses that our understanding of territory is inseparable from our understanding of power. Uses Israel/Palestine as an extended illustrative case study. The author’s strong legal and geographical background gives the work an authoritative perspective.

Author: Anne Peters
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN: 9004251634
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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The law of immunity of states, of international organisations, and of public officials is one of the most important and most controversial topics of international law. The book consists of five parts: ‘State Immunity – National Practice’; State Immunity before the ICJ – The case Germany v Italy; ‘Commercial Activities and State Immunity’; ‘Immunity and Impunity’; and ‘Immunities of International Organisations’. Although immunities are in principle firmly anchored in international law, their precise legal implications are often unclear. The book takes up a number of new trends and challenges in this field and assesses them within the framework of global constitutionalism and multilevel governance. Contains chapters in both English and French.

Author: Andrea Bianchi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107470242
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 641

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While its importance in domestic law has long been acknowledged, transparency has until now remained largely unexplored in international law. This study of transparency issues in key areas such as international economic law, environmental law, human rights law and humanitarian law brings together new and important insights on this pressing issue. Contributors explore the framing and content of transparency in their respective fields with regard to proceedings, institutions, law-making processes and legal culture, and a selection of cross-cutting essays completes the study by examining transparency in international law-making and adjudication.

Author: Jan Klabbers
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199543429
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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The book examines one of the most debated issues in current international law: to what extent the international legal system has constitutional features comparable to what we find in national law. This question has become increasingly relevant in a time of globalization, where new international institutions and courts are established to address international issues. Constitutionalization beyond the nation state has for many years been discussed in relation to the European Union.This book asks whether we now see constitutionalization taking place also at the global level.The book investigates what should be characterized as constitutional features of the current international order, in what way the challenges differ from those at the national level and what could be a proper interaction between different international arrangements as well as between the international and national constitutional level. Finally, it sketches the outlines of what a constitutionalized world order could and should imply. The book is a critical appraisal of constitutionalist ideas andof their critique. It argues that the reconstruction of the current evolution of international law as a process of constitutionalization -against a background of, and partly in competition with, the verticalization of substantive law and the deformalization and fragmentation of international law-has some explanatory power, permits new insights and allows for new arguments.The book thus identifies constitutional trends and challenges in establishing international organisational structures, and designs procedures for standard-setting, implementation and judicial functions.

Author: Almut Schilling-Vacaflor
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131708862X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 447

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Latin America has a long tradition of constitutional reform. Since the democratic transitions of the 1980s, most countries have amended their constitutions at least once, and some have even undergone constitutional reform several times. The global phenomenon of a new constitutionalism, with enhanced rights provisions, finds expression in the region, but the new constitutions, such as those of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela, also have some peculiar characteristics which are discussed in this important book. Authors from a number of different disciplines offer a general overview of constitutional reforms in Latin America since 1990. They explore the historical, philosophical and doctrinal differences between traditional and new constitutionalism in Latin America and examine sources of inspiration. The book also covers sociopolitical settings, which factors and actors are relevant for the reform process, and analyzes the constitutional practices after reform, including the question of whether the recent constitutional reforms created new post-liberal democracies with an enhanced human and social rights record, or whether they primarily serve the ambitions of new political leaders.

Author: Alfonso de Julios Campuzano
Publisher: Publidisa
ISBN: 8497721616
Category : Law
Languages : es
Pages : 181

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La globalización es, sin resquicio a dudas, uno de esos grandes iconos de la hora presente que precisan ser contemplados desde el crisol de la indagación científica. Las cuestiones que suscita pueden y de hecho son objeto de análisis supérfluos, por etéreos y superficiales; pero eso no invalida en modo alguno la urgencia de una consideración iusfilosófica. Son muchas las implicaciones de este fenómeno y la Filosofía del Derecho no puede ignorarlas. La globalización es una tendencia irremediable de nuestro tiempo y que no nos es lícito desconocer sus consecuencias positivas, acentuando sin más los elementos negativos que le son propios. Pero hay diversos modelos de globalización posibles. No todos resultan coherentes con la reformulación crítica y reflexiva del proyecto de la modernidad. Y creo, sinceramente, que la posibilidad de un futuro más prometedor para la humanidad depende del grado de realización de lo más puro de ese modelo normativo, cuyo potencial emancipador está aún por descubrir. El reencuentro entre globalización y justicia es una de las grandes tareas de nuestro tiempo y creo que ese desafío sólo podrá ser alcanzado desde el compromiso por la construcción de un modelo de globalización compatible con el proyecto ilustrado. Ese es el sentido del título de este trabajo: La Globalización Ilustrada, una globalización capaz de desplazar su centro de gravedad desde la proclamación de la lógica capitalista del máximo beneficio al compromiso cosmopolita por la realización universal de los derechos humanos.

Author: Anthony F. Lang
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1802200266
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 609

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This thoroughly revised Handbook presents an up-to-date political and philosophical history of global constitutionalism. By exploring the constitutional-like qualities of international affairs, it provides key insight into the evolving world order.