Constitucionalismo

un modelo jurídico para la sociedad global

El modelo constitucional que surge de la segunda posguerra mundial y que se consolida en las décadas subsiguientes incorpora cambios sustanciales respecto al constitucionalismo anterior. Se trata de un constitucionalismo que bebe, directamente, de las tradiciones francesa y norteamericana; de aquella, toma su dimensión normativa ...

The German Federal Constitutional Court

the court without limits

This translation into English of the leading German-language work on the Federal Constitutional Court gives an overview of the court's history and role as one of the most influential constitutional courts in recent years. The book consists of four extended, free-standing essays written by ...

European Constitutional Courts and transitions to democracy

This book brings together research on democratization processes and constitutional justice by examining the role of three generations of European constitutional courts in the transitions to democracy that took place in Europe in the twentieth century. Using a comparative perspective, the author examines how the ...

La revolución secreta

Del Estado de Derecho al Estado judicial. Un ensayo sobre Constitución y método

Una revolución secreta ha tenido lugar en Alemania. "Revolución", pues un sistema originalmente parlamentario ha sido transformado en uno donde los jueces son quienes ya no solo deciden el derecho, sino quienes también lo crean; de ese modo, el derecho no se define ya en ...

Las implicaciones constitucionales de la gobernanza económica europea

La gobernanza económica europea está integrada por una suma tan amplia de normas de hard law y soft law, además de tratados y acuerdos internacionales, que constituye un abigarrado universo de decisiones políticas e imposiciones jurídicas de difícil comprensión y de aún más difícil aplicación ...

Founding moments in Constitutionalism

Founding moments are landmark events that break ties with the ancien régime and lay the foundation for the establishment of a new constitutional order. They are often radically disruptive episodes in the life of a state. They reshape national law, reset political relationships, establish future ...

New Economic Constitutionalism in Europe

New Economic Constitutionalism in Europe focuses on the institutional mutation of constitutionalism following the major economic crisis in the Eurozone and globally. The main axis is that a new economic constitutionalism has arisen which trespasses on the conventional conceptual foundations and needs to be addressed ...

Constitutional Law of the EU's Common Foreign and security policy

Competence and institutions in external relations

The Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) of the European Union is a highly exceptional component of the EU legal order. This constitutionalised foreign policy regime, with legal, diplomatic, and political DNA woven throughout its fabric, is a distinct sub-system of law on the outermost ...

The foundations and traditions of constitutional amendment

There is growing interest in constitutional amendment from a comparative perspective. Comparative constitutional amendment is the study of how constitutions change through formal and informal means, including alteration, revision, evolution, interpretation, replacement and revolution. The field invites scholars to draw insights about constitutional change across ...

Manual de Derecho constitucional

En ocasiones, la enseñanza universitaria corrobora esta impresión, cerrada en sí misma y organizada en base a conceptos, categorías, dogmas abstractos e intemporales. En este estudio, en cambio, se ha tratado, en la medida de los posible, poner en evidencia las raíces, las concordancias y ...

The Constitution of Brazil

a contextual analysis

This book offers an original and comprehensive analysis of Brazilian constitutional law and shows how the 1988 Constitution has been a cornerstone in Brazil's struggle to achieve institutional stability and promote the enforcement of fundamental rights. In the realm of rights, although much has ...

Derechos fundamentales y procesos constitucionales

Vol. 1: Teoría general de los derechos fundamentales

Reúne trabajos relacionados con distintos aspectos dogmáticos y prácticos de los derechos fundamentales en general.

Bioconstitucionalismo

Una reflexión sobre la edición genómica desde (y para) la Teoría del Derecho Constitucional

El avance de la biotecnología y, en concreto, de la edición genómica pone en entredicho múltiples conceptos e instituciones jurídicas y metajurídicas tradicionalmente arraigados en nuestra sociedad. Ello nos obliga a reflexionar en cómo debe adaptarse el Derecho a dicho nuevo e inédito entorno. Si ...

The second founding

how the Civil War and reconstruction remade the Constitution

The Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal but it took the Civil War and the adoption of three constitutional amendments to establish that ideal as law. The Reconstruction amendments abolished slavery, guaranteed due process and the equal protection of the law, and ...

Originalism's promise

a natural Law account of the American Constitution

The foundation of the American legal system and democratic culture is its longstanding written Constitution. However, a contentious debate now exists between originalists, who employ the Constitution's original meaning, and Nonoriginalists, who argue for a living constitution interpretation. The first natural law justification for ...

India's founding moment

How India's Constitution came into being and instituted democracy after independence from British rule. Britain's justification for colonial rule in India stressed the impossibility of Indian self-government. And the empire did its best to ensure this was the case, impoverishing Indian subjects and ...

Constitutions compared

aan introduction to comparative Constitutional Law

The 5th edition of this handbook provides a user-friendly introduction to comparative constitutional law. For each area of constitutional law, a general introduction and a comparative overview is provided, which is then followed by more detailed country chapters on that specific area. The author has ...

Constitución y ordenamiento jurídico

Constitución y ordenamiento jurídico es un manual dirigido a los estudiantes que se inician en los estudios de Derecho. Su propósito es explicar de forma didáctica y sencilla cuestiones básicas de Derecho constitucional. Para ello, el profesor Juan Manuel Herreros López se ha servido de ...

La vertebración de Quebec en el modelo federal canadiense

1ª y 2ª parte

1ª PARTE: El análisis del modelo federal de Canadá, más concretamente la integración de Quebec en el mismo, se presenta ante nosotros como un tema especialmente apasionante y de candente actua­lidad, de cara a poder sacar lecciones que puedan resultarnos de utili­dad en ...

Deferencia al legislador

la vinculación del juez a la ley en el Estado Constitucional

El Estado Constitucional establece una particular relación entre derechos, jurisdicción y legislación. En concreto, la incorporación de principios a la Constitución hace especialmente agudo el problema de la vinculación del juez a la ley, tal y como advertía Kelsen en sus escritos sobre la justicia ...