Transconstitutionalism Hardback
by Marcelo Neves
Part of the Hart Monographs in Transnational and International Law series
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Transconstitutionalism is a concept used to describe what happens to constitutional law when it is emancipated from the state, in which can be found the origins of constitutional law.
Transconstitutionalism does not exist because a multitude of new constitutions have appeared, but because other legal orders are now implicated in resolving basic constitutional problems.
A transconstitutional problem entails a constitutional issue whose solution may involve national, international, supranational and transnational courts or arbitral tribunals, as well as native local legal institutions.
Transconstitutionalism does not take any single legal order or type of order as a starting-point or ultima ratio.
It rejects both nation-statism and internationalism, supranationalism, transnationalism and localism as privileged spaces for solving constitutional problems.
The transconstitutional model avoids the dilemma of 'monism versus pluralism'.
From the standpoint of transconstitutionalism, a plurality of legal orders entails a complementary and conflicting relationship between identity and alterity: constitutional identity is rearticulated on the basis of alterity.
Rather than seeking a 'Herculean Constitution', transconstitutionalism tackles the many-headed Hydra of constitutionalism, always looking for the blind spot in one legal system and reflecting it back against the many others found in the world's legal orders.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:246 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:01/05/2013
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- ISBN:9781849464185
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:246 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:01/05/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9781849464185
