Constitutional Violence

Legitimacy, Democracy and Human Rights

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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Beskrivning

Is a constitution the best device for ruling a country? Western political systems tend to be ‘constitutional democracies’, dividing the system into a domain of politics, where the people rule, and a domain of law, set aside for a trained elite. Antoni Abat i Ninet strives to resolve these apparently exclusive public and legal sovereignties, using their various avatars across the globe as case studies. He challenges the American constitutional experience that has dominated western constitutional thought as a quasi-religious doctrine. And he argues that human rights and democracy must strive to deactivate the ‘invisible’ but very real violence embedded in our seemingly sacrosanct constitutions.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-08-20
Mått:156 x 234 x 11 mm
Vikt:323 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:192
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9780748675388

Utforska kategorier

Mänskliga och medborgerliga rättigheter inom Juridik

Mer om författaren

Antoni Abat i Ninet is Professor of Law at the University of Copenhagen. He graduated in Law from the University of Girona in 2001 and was awarded a PhD by the University of Barcelona in 2007. Before joining the University of Copenhagen, he was granted the Juan de la Cierva competitive research scholarship by Spain's Ministry for Science and Innovation. From 2002 to 2005, he taught Comparative Constitutional Law and Ancient Constitutionalism at the State University of New York, the Lincoln Law School of San José and was Visiting Scholar at Stanford University Law School. His research interests include: the theoretical foundations of constitutions; the links between constitution, constitutionalism and democracy; global economic constitutionalism. Professor Abat's articles and papers regularly appear in leading peer-reviewed journals in the U.S. and Europe (e.g. American Journal of Comparative Law, Ratio Juris, Philosophia quarterly of Israel).

Innehållsförteckning

Preface by Mark Tushnet; 1. Introduction; 2. Sovereignty and Constitution; 3. Democracy; 4. Legal Violence; 5. Comparing Constitutional Violence; Afterword; Bibliography; Index.