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Transgender Constitutional Law
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022This revolution in transgender constitutional rights is important in its own right-indeed it is likely to be critical at a time when a wave of anti-transgender legislation is currently sweeping the country. But it is also important for the ways it calls into question the conventional wisdom of constitutional law as a field.
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Africanization of constitutional law
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020This chapter tells a brief story about how, despite a highly contested trajectory, a strong enough consensus ultimately emerged at the African continental level to actively address and eventually also prevent constitutional crises within African Union (AU) member states.
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Transnational Constitutional Law
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020This is an advanced draft of the entry on 'transnational constitutional law', forthcoming in the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law (OUP). Global constitutionalism derives from the fluid nature of common constitutional traditions and from the mutual interactions of global and national courts. More than ‘global constitutionalism’,
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The Constitution and the Nature of Law
Law and Philosophy, 1993Rhetoric about the Supreme Court's making law, and ignoring the intentions of the framers of the Constitution, is no doubt motivated by such Court decisions as Roe v. Wade. The rhetoric is also animated, however, by a prima facie compelling argument. The argument is that if no one ever thought of such a right as that of privacy, for example, until over
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2. Constitutions and Constitutional Law
2020This chapter examines the specific functions and characteristics of constitutions in general terms—thinking of what the constitutions of Western democratic countries are typically like—rather than with particular reference to the UK, and then considers how the UK’s constitutional arrangements measure up.
Mark Elliott, Robert Thomas
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2020
AbstractThe creation of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) was an important enterprise of constitutional engineering and expressed a belief in the capacity of constitutional law to accomplish economic objectives. The Treaty of Maastricht was prepared by not one but two intergovernmental conferences, namely one on ‘European Political Union’ and another ...
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AbstractThe creation of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) was an important enterprise of constitutional engineering and expressed a belief in the capacity of constitutional law to accomplish economic objectives. The Treaty of Maastricht was prepared by not one but two intergovernmental conferences, namely one on ‘European Political Union’ and another ...
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2014
This chapter deals with constitutional law, and focuses upon: 1. The nature of states and their sovereignty; 2. The ways in which state power is constrained; 3. Democratic control over state power. Keywordsprime ministerjudicial reviewelectoral collegeexecutive powerconstitutional courtthese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors.
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This chapter deals with constitutional law, and focuses upon: 1. The nature of states and their sovereignty; 2. The ways in which state power is constrained; 3. Democratic control over state power. Keywordsprime ministerjudicial reviewelectoral collegeexecutive powerconstitutional courtthese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors.
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Constitutional and Administrative Law
2012The purpose of this book is to introduce the reader to the fundamental principles and concepts of constitutional and administrative law. It is highly popular with undergraduates for its clear writing style and the ease with which it guides the reader through key principles of public law. This thirteenth edition incorporates the significant developments
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2012
The European Union has existed for over half a century. Having started as the 'Europe of the Six' in a specific industrial sector, the Union today has twenty-seven Member States and acts within almost all areas of social life. The Union's constitutional structures have evolved in parallel with this immense growth. Born as an international organisation,
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The European Union has existed for over half a century. Having started as the 'Europe of the Six' in a specific industrial sector, the Union today has twenty-seven Member States and acts within almost all areas of social life. The Union's constitutional structures have evolved in parallel with this immense growth. Born as an international organisation,
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1. Constitutions and Constitutional Law
2014This chapter examines the specific functions and characteristics of constitutions in general terms—thinking of what the constitutions of Western democratic countries are typically like—rather than with particular reference to the UK, and then considers how the UK’s constitutional arrangements measure up.
Mark Elliott, Robert Thomas
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