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Handbook on global constitutionalism / edited by Anthony F. Lang, Antje Wiener.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Research handbooks on globalisation and the law.
- Research Handbooks on Globalisation and the Law
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Constitutional law.
- Genre:
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (458 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cheltenham England ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017.
- Summary:
- This Handbook introduces scholars and students to the history, philosophy and evidence of global constitutionalism.Contributors provide their insights from law, politics, international relations, philosophy and history, drawing on diverse frameworks and empirical data sets to explore the idea of a global constitutional order.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface and acknowledgements
- 1 A constitutionalising global order: an introduction
- PART I: HISTORICAL ANTECEDENTS
- 2 Global constitutionalism: the ancient worlds
- 3 Medieval constitutionalism
- 4 Global constitutionalism in the early modern period: the role of empires, treaties and natural law
- 5 The Enlightenment and global constitutionalism
- 6 Modern historical antecedents of global constitutionalism in theoretical perspective
- PART II: POLITICAL AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORIES
- 7 Cosmopolitanism and global constitutionalism
- 8 Liberal theory
- 9 Constructivism
- 10 Realist perspectives on global constitutionalism
- 11 Critical theory
- PART III: LEGAL THEORIES
- 12 International legal constitutionalism, legal forms and the need for villains
- 13 Interactional legal theory, the international rule of law and global constitutionalism
- 14 The multifaceted relationship between functionalism and global constitutionalism
- PART IV: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES
- 15 Global constitutionalism and the rule of law
- 16 Balance of powers
- 17 Constituent power in global constitutionalism
- 18 Human rights as transnational constitutional law
- 19 Proportionality as a global constitutional principle
- 20 Written versus unwritten: two views on the form of an international constitution
- 21 Constitution making
- PART V: INSTITUTIONS ANDFRAMEWORKS
- 22 International judicial review
- 23 Legislatures
- 24 Executive and exception
- 25 Federalism: from constitutionalism to constitutionalization?
- 26 The UN Charter and global constitutionalism?
- 27 Functionalism, constitutionalism and the United Nations
- 28 The European Union and global constitutionalism
- 29 The International Criminal Court and global constitutionalism.
- 30 Global commercial constitutionalization: the World Trade Organization
- PART VI: NEW HORIZONS
- 31 The political economy of global constitutionalism
- 32 Global religion in a post-Westphalia world
- 33 Constitutionalism and pluralism
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-78347-735-0
- OCLC:
- 1007134332
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