Constitutionalism

Old Dilemmas, New Insights
Herausgeber: Linares Cantillo, Alejandro

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Produktbeschreibung

This compilation of twenty essays gathers some of the most prominent authors in constitutionalism and legal theory to critically examine classical debates, such as the role of judicial review in a democracy, the enforcement of socio-economic rights, the doctrine of unconstitutional amendments, and the theory of transitional justice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 180mm x 58mm
• Gewicht: 1878g
• ISBN-13: 9780192896759
• ISBN-10: 019289675X
• Artikelnr.: 61343027

Autorenporträt

Alejandro Linares Cantillo is Associate justice of the Colombian Constitutional Court. He has an LL.B. from the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogota, holds an LL.M degree from Harvard University, and is a PhD in Law from the Universidad Externado de Colombia. Justice Linares has practiced law for more than 30 years in both the public and private sector. Additionally, he has also taught at several universities in Colombia for example the Universidad de Los Andes, Universidad del Rosario, and Universidad del Norte. Camilo Valdivieso-León is a law clerk at the Chamber of Justice Alejandro Linares-Cantillo (Colombian Constitutional Court). He was assistant professor of international investment law (Spring, 2017) and private international law (Fall, 2019) at the Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia). He holds an LLB from the Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia, 2015); and specialization degree in public management and administrative institutions from the Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia, 2018). Santiago García-Jaramillo is a law clerk at the Chamber of Justice Alejandro Linares-Cantillo (Colombian Constitutional Court); Professor of Constitutional Law at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia); visiting research scholar at Cornell University (Spring, 2018 and 2019). He has an LLB from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia, 2013); and a specialization degree in public law from the Universidad Externado de Colombia (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

* I. INTRODUCTION
* II. THE ROLE OF CONSTITUTIONAL COURTS IN MODERN DEMOCRACIES
* Hercules at the Crossroads
* 1.: Andrei Marmor: Constitutionalism, Liberalism, and Democracy
* 2.: Wilfrid Waluchow: The Misconceived Quest for the Elusive Right
Answer, or Dedication to a Process, Not a Result
* 3.: Roberto Gargarella: Dialogic constitutionalism in defective
democracies
* 4.: Mario Cajas-Sarria: From the Public Action of Unconstitutionality
of 1910 to the Constitutional Court of 1991: The political and legal
struggles for Constitutional Justice in Colombia
* III. NEW INSIGHTS
* A) We the People or We the Judges: The Judicial Enforcement of
Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments
* 5.: Samuel Issacharoff: Courts as Guarantors of Democracy
* 6.: Tom Ginsburg: The Machinery of International Law and Democratic
Backsliding: The Problem of Term Limit
* 7.: Yaniv Roznai: The Straw that Broke the Constitution's Back?
Qualitative Quantity in Judicial Review of Constitutional Amendments
* 8.: Andrea Celemin: Between the Explicit and Implicit Limits? An
Analysis of Judicial Review of the Constitutional Amendment Doctrine
in Colombia
* B) A Struggle for Equality or Judges as policy makers: The Judicial
Enforcement of Socio-Economic Rights
* 9.: Axel Tschentscher: Constitutional Rights Without the Notion of
Optimization: Limiting Judicial Activism in the Realm of Social and
Economic Rights
* 10.: Octavio Luis Motta-Ferraz: To Interfere or Not to Interfere? The
Court's Dilemma in Social Rights' Enforcement
* 11.: David Bilchitz: How can Rights Be Individuated?
* 12.: David Landau: The Colombian Model of Structural Socioeconomic
Rights Remedies: Lessons from and for Comparative Experience
* C) Courts as Mediators or Courts Setting the Ultimate Standard of
Fairness: Transitional Justice
* 13.: David Dyzenhaus and Alma Diamond: The Resilient Constitution
* 14.: Colleen Murphy: Judging the Justice of the Colombian Final
Agreement
* 15.: Juana I. Acosta-López and Cindy Vanessa Espitia-Murcia: The
transitional justice model in Colombia vis-à-vis the Inter-American
Human Rights System: Amidst the conventionality control and the
national margin of appreciation
* 16.: Diana Acosta-Navas: Righting Wrong or Wronging Rights? An
Ethical Perspective on the Colombian Integrated System for
Transitional Justice
* IV. THE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL, COMPARATIVE AND FOREIGN LAW IN
DOMESTIC CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: DIALOGUE AMONG THE GLOBAL SOUTH
* The Use of Foreign Precedents, a 'Global South' monologue or a
conversation among equals
* 17.: Muna Ndulo: International and Foreign Law in Domestic
Constitutional Law: A Comparative Examination of the Practice in
United States and Post Conflict Countries
* 18.: Mitchell Lasser: The Inter-Institutional Dimension of the
Fundamental Rights Revolution: The Colombian-American Implications of
the Franco-European Experience
* 19.: Marie-Christine Fuchs: The Changing role and reception of
international law in domestic constitutional law: Some Thoughts about
Latin America and Europe
* 20.: Carlos Arévalo and Julián Huertas: Not so Moderate: The
Relationship Between the Colombian Legal System and International Law