Constitutional Law

1. Mitos, memórias, conceitos -- Direitos humanos, direitos fundamentais.

En este libro se reconstruyen, en un recorrido que entrelaza la historia de las ideas con la de las instituciones políticas, los elementos que a lo largo del tiempo han dado forma al modelo democrático constitucional contemporáneo.

El conjunto de ensayos que el lector tiene entre sus manos expresa un cuerpo sistemático de ideas provocadoras sobre la tensión entre el constitucionalismo y la democracia. Su autor, el profesor Joel Colón-Ríos, boricua, formado en las dos facultades de derecho canadienses de mayor renombre, e investigador de una de las mejores universidades de Oceanía, las ha fraguado a lo largo de más de un lustro y debatido con gran éxito ante la elite intelectual de Norteamérica. La propuesta central del (...) libro es una original reivindicación de la democracia frente al constitucionalismo. Su institucionalización consiste en un constitucionalismo débil. La piedra angular de este modelo es una constitución inacabada, permanentemente abierta al cambio, que permite y promueve la participación y la deliberación popular continua, en particular, mediante el potencial ejercicio del poder constituyente en cualquier momento. De esta manera, el pueblo tiene la posibilidad de hablar por sí mismo cuando lo juzgue pertinente. Puede cuestionar y reformular los principios básicos de la organización social. No está supeditado a las decisiones adoptadas por los ancestros que expidieron la Constitución, ni por sus representantes que, en el Congreso, ostentan el poder de reformarla. Precio: 49.000 pesos. (shrink)

What kind of discourse is likely to build up constitutional norms? How do legal-philosophical insights get along with competing political claims? This book presents the main conclusions from the CITC (Congreso Internacional de Teoria Constitucional) in Cordoba, Argentina. While addressing the very foundations of Constitutional Law, leading scholars from Europe and America got together to debate legal and political issues which impinge upon institutional design and polity assessment, political representation and rights protection. Not to mention other vexing challenges such as (...) the proper latitude of judicial review, the threatening phenomena of untamed emergency powers and the current international dimension of supra-national state-building. Beyond governance and human rights discourse, the core content of this book is concentrated on shedding some light on which theoretical and/or political conditions could better stand and give shelter to civil obedience and constitutional patriotism. (shrink)

本书辑录作者2008年以来关于"政治宪法学"主题的主要代表性论文,较为完整地展现了作者所坚持的自由主义政治宪政思想路径.

Constitutional Conversations : Alternative models for the challenge of civilizational conflict -- Western Constitutionalism : Universal Norms or Contingent Cultural Concepts -- From Medina to Runnymede : Comparing the Foundational Legacies of the Constitution of Medina and the Magna Carta -- Comparing Constitutionalisms : Is there an Islamic Constitutionalism? -- Constitutional Conversations- The Fusing of Political Tradition in Khayr al-Din al-Tunisi's The Surest Path -- The Arab Spring- Constitutional Thought in Contested Political Space, Questions and Conclusions.

Knyha 1. Teoretyko-metodolohichni osnovy -- Knyha 2. Sot︠s︡iokulʹturni pidstavy i︠e︡vropeĭsʹkoho konstytut︠s︡ionalizmu.

Origins and foundations : two features of the modern constitution -- The paradox of democratic founding : canonical statements and contemporary perspectives -- The people and the lawgiver : Rousseau on the possibility of democratic founding -- Building a homeland : founding and identity in Hanna Arendt's Jewish writings -- Revolution and constitution : the legitimacy of beginning in question -- Law and democracy in founding moments : deliberative constitution-making -- "The act by which a people is a people.".

立憲主義とは何か。憲法の本質に迫る名著に新章を追加、「攻撃される日本の立憲主義」「藤田宙靖教授の『覚え書き』について」「『義務なき働き』について」の三論考を補章として新たに収録。.

The concept of the political -- Constituent power -- Identity and representation -- The concept of the constitution -- Human rights -- State, Grossraum, nomos.

Rule of law and constitutionalist ideals are understood by many, if not most, as necessary to create a just political order. Defying the traditional division between normative and positive theoretical approaches, this book explores how political reality on the one hand, and constitutional ideals on the other, mutually inform and influence each other. Seventeen chapters from leading international scholars cover a diverse range of topics and case studies to test the hypothesis that the best normative theories, including those regarding the (...) role of constitutions, constitutionalism and the rule of law, conceive of the ideal and the real as mutually regulating. (shrink)