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Rethinking (Eco)Feminist Constitutionalism

open access: yesAthena
This article focuses on the developments of liberal constitutionalism vis a vis the challenges posed by feminist and ecofeminist constitutionalism. First, it explores the insufficiencies of contemporary constitutionalism for fully incorporating the ...
Silvina Alvarez Medina
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Nationalism, constitutionalism and pseudo-constitutionalism. The right to self-determination as a ‘principle of principles’ of constitutionalism [PDF]

open access: yesRevista d'Estudis Autonòmics i Federals
This paper has two main objectives. First, to argue that the position consistent with the theory and values of constitutionalism lies in the defence of the equal right of all nations to full self-determination. Second, to argue that justifying the denial
Juan-Ramón Fallada-García-Valle
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Presidential Constitutionalism and Civil Rights [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
As the judicial and legislative branches have taken a more passive approach to civil rights enforcement, the President’s exercise of independent, extrajudicial constitutional judgment has become increasingly important. Modern U.S.
Landau, Joseph
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Neo-liberalism at a time of crisis: the case of taxation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This essay explores how the global financial crisis of 2008–2009 has affected the stability of what Stephen Gill has termed the ‘new constitutionalism of disciplinary neo-liberalism’, more precisely, in the realm of international tax policy.
Lesage, Dries, Vermeiren, Mattias
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Participation and Constitutionalism

open access: yesFederal Law Review, 2010
This essay addresses two related questions: is participation by citizens in administrative decision-making constitutionally regulated? And if so, to what extent and in what circumstances? Obviously, answers to these questions may vary from one constitutional system to another.
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CONSTITUTIONALIZING SELF-DEFENCE [PDF]

open access: yesUniversity of Toronto Law Journal, 2011
Taking its cue from the Supreme Court of Canada's constitutionalization of the criminal law's unwritten general part, this article illustrates the interaction between criminal law theory and constitutional law that process implies. It does so by applying a criminal law theory of why and when force in self-defence is justified in order to assess the ...
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What’s left of the political constitution? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper argues that we should move on from what has become a rather outdated contrast between the political constitution and the legal constitution.
Tomkins, A.
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Transformative Constitutionalism and the Right to Health in Latin America

open access: yesRevista de Direito Sanitário
The most important objective of transformative constitutionalism is to transform society by fostering democracy, protecting human rights, and seeking to eliminate poverty and reduce inequality.
Rodolfo Gutiérrez Silva
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