Fundamental rights and legal consequences of criminal conviction

The legal position of convicted offenders is complex, as are the social consequences that can result from a criminal conviction. After they have served their sentences, custodial or not, convicted offenders often continue to be subject to numerous restrictions, in many cases indefinitely, due to ...

The triangular constitution

constitutional pluralism in Ireland, the EU and the ECHR

This book offers a new account of modern European constitutionalism. It uses the Irish constitutional order to demonstrate that, right across the European Union, the national constitution can no longer be understood on its own, in isolation from the EU legal order or from the ...

European constitutions compared

This book is a comprehensive study of the institutional setting of European Constitutions and provides a systematic study of the constitutional principles and organisation of state powers. The following issues are addressed: Terminology; Notion and Functions of Constitution; Sources of Constitutional Law; Constituent and Amending ...

Escritos de derecho constitucional

Courts without cases

the law and politics of advisory opinions

Since 1875, Canadian courts have been permitted to act as advisors alongside their ordinary, adjudicative role. This book offers the first detailed examination of that role from a legal perspective. When one thinks of courts, it is most often in the context of deciding cases ...

The president on Capitol Hill

a theory of institutional influence

Can presidents influence whether Congress enacts their agenda? Most research on presidential-congressional relations suggests that presidents have little if any influence on Congress. Instead, structural factors like party control largely determine the fate of the president’s legislative agenda. In The President on Capitol Hill ...

Constitutional theory

Schmitt after Derrida

This book advances a new reading of the central works of Carl Schmitt and, in so doing, rethinks the primary concepts of constitutional theory. In this book, Jacques de Ville engages in a close analysis of a number of Schmitt's texts, including Dictatorship (1921 ...

Manual de derecho constitucional I

La obra que se presenta está especialmente dirigida a los alumnos de primero del grado en Derecho y de primero del doble grado en Derecho y Administración de Empresas. De una manera breve y sencilla, este texto docente permite al alumno adentrarse en el Derecho ...

El gobierno local

de los antiguos modelos europeos al nuevo paradigma latinoamericano

Los estudios dedicados al gobierno local, desde la perspectiva comparada, son bastante raros. La mayoría de las clasificaciones se deben a los politólogos y sociólogos de la administración pública. Este libro analiza los modelos desde la perspectiva del derecho comparado y hace hincapié en la ...

Constitución y transición a la democracia en América Latina

Ensayos selectos

E giro hacia la democracia que se manifestó en tres olas sucesivas a lo largo de las últimas décadas del siglo pasado, se le dio en llamar Transición a la democracia.

Revolutionary Constitutions

charismatic leadership and the rule of Law

A robust defense of democratic populism by one of America's most renowned and controversial constitutional scholars-the award-winning author of We the People. Populism is a threat to the democratic world, fuel for demagogues and reactionary crowds-or so its critics would have us believe. But ...

We the people III

la revolución de los derechos civiles

We the People traza la historia del constitucionalismo estadounidense, desde la fundación de la República hasta la revolución de los derechos civiles de la década de 1960 y la crisis actual provocada por la governance neoliberal, para afirmar con todo vigor la función primordial desempeñada ...

La sociedad menos injusta

estudios de historia de las ideas y Teoría de la Constitución

La defensa activa de la democracia constitucional y de la libertad bajo el imperio de la ley exige un serio esfuerzo intelectual. Vivimos tiempos confusos y por ello resulta imprescindible actualizar el discurso de la razón ilustrada. Cierta derecha displicente y cierta izquierda complaciente prefieren ...

Proportionality balancing and Constitutional governance

a comparative and global approach

In this book, Alec Stone Sweet and Jud Mathews focus on the law and politics of rights protection in democracies, and in human rights regimes in Europe, the Americas, and Africa. After introducing the basic features of modern constitutions, with their emphasis on rights and ...

La controversia Smend / Kelsen sobre la integración en la Constitución y el Estado durante la República de Weimar

Constitución y Derecho constitucional versus El Estado como integración

Con la aparición de la controversia Smend/Kelsen sobre la integración, la editorial Tecnos culmina el proyecto de publicar una secuencia de textos destinados a dar a conocer entre la cultura política que se expresa en español, los grandes debates intelectuales que agitaron la vida ...

Atingencias constitucionales contemporáneas

Asistimos a la constitucionalización del Derecho en la totalidad de ramas del mismo. Así, somos testigos de excepción de nuevos vientos garantistas. Ello obedece básicamente a los efectos del aterrizaje del Derecho Global, Neoconstitucionalismo y Estado Constitucional de Derecho, en ese orden.

Rationing the Constitution

how judicial capacity shapes Supreme Court decision-making

In this groundbreaking analysis of Supreme Court decision-making, Andrew Coan explains how judicial caseload shapes the course of American constitutional law and the role of the Court in American society. Compared with the vast machinery surrounding Congress and the president, the Supreme Court is a ...

Free speech in the Digital Age

This collection of thirteen new essays is the first to examine, from a range of disciplinary perspectives, how the new technologies and global reach of the Internet are changing the theory and practice of free speech. The rapid expansion of online communication, as well as ...

Constitutionalism

past, present, and future

Constitutionalism: Past, Present, and Future is the definitive collection of Dieter Grimm's most influential writings on constitutional thought and interpretation. The essays included in this volume explore the conditions under which the modern constitution could emerge; they treat the characteristics that must be given ...

Unconstitutional Constitutional amendments

the limits of amendment powers

Can constitutional amendments be unconstitutional? The problem of 'unconstitutional constitutional amendments' has become one of the most widely debated issues in comparative constitutional theory, constitutional design, and constitutional adjudication. This book describes and analyses the increasing tendency in global constitutionalism to substantively limit formal changes ...