Constitutional Violence : Legitimacy, Democracy and Human Rights

Antoni Abat I Ninet

ISBN 10: 0748675388 / ISBN 13: 9780748675388

Editore: Edinburgh University Press Aug 2014, 2014

Riguardo questo articolo

Neuware - Is a constitution the best device for ruling a country Western political systems tend to be 'constitutional democracies', dividing the system into a domain of politics, where the people rule, and a domain of law, set aside for a trained elite. Antoni Abat i Ninet strives to resolve these apparently exclusive public and legal sovereignties, using their various avatars across the globe as case studies. He challenges the American constitutional experience that has dominated western constitutional thought as a quasi-religious doctrine. And he argues that human rights and democracy must strive to deactivate the 'invisible' but very real violence embedded in our seemingly sacrosanct constitutions.

Codice articolo 9780748675388

Dati bibliografici

• Titolo: Constitutional Violence : Legitimacy, Democracy and Human Rights
• Editore: Edinburgh University Press Aug 2014
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0748675388
• ISBN 13: 9780748675388
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 231 L x 152 A x 13 P (millimetri) 231 millimetri di larghezza per 152 millimetri di altezza per 13 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 295 grammi

Descrizione articolo

Riassunto

Is a constitution the best device for ruling a country? Western political systems tend to be ‘constitutional democracies’, dividing the system into a domain of politics, where the people rule, and a domain of law, set aside for a trained elite. Antoni Abat i Ninet strives to resolve these apparently exclusive public and legal sovereignties, using their various avatars across the globe as case studies. He challenges the American constitutional experience that has dominated western constitutional thought as a quasi-religious doctrine. And he argues that human rights and democracy must strive to deactivate the ‘invisible’ but very real violence embedded in our seemingly sacrosanct constitutions.

Informazioni sugli autori

Antoni Abat i Ninet is Professor of Law at the University of Copenhagen. He graduated in Law from the University of Girona in 2001 and was awarded a PhD by the University of Barcelona in 2007. Before joining the University of Copenhagen, he was granted the Juan de la Cierva competitive research scholarship by Spain's Ministry for Science and Innovation. From 2002 to 2005, he taught Comparative Constitutional Law and Ancient Constitutionalism at the State University of New York, the Lincoln Law School of San José and was Visiting Scholar at Stanford University Law School. His research interests include: the theoretical foundations of constitutions; the links between constitution, constitutionalism and democracy; global economic constitutionalism. Professor Abat's articles and papers regularly appear in leading peer-reviewed journals in the U.S. and Europe (e.g. American Journal of Comparative Law, Ratio Juris, Philosophia quarterly of Israel).

Antoni Abat i Ninet is Professor of Constitutional and Comparative Law at the ESADE Law School at the University Ramon Llull, Barcelona.

He graduated in Law from the University of Girona in 2001 and was awarded a PhD by the University of Barcelona in 2007. From 2002 to 2005, he was granted the Juan de la Cierva competitive research scholarship by Spain's Ministry for Science and Innovation. He taught Comparative Constitutional Law and Ancient Constitutionalism at the State University of New York, the Lincoln Law School of San José and was Visiting Scholar at Stanford University Law School. His research interests include: the theoretical foundations of constitutions; the links between constitution, constitutionalism and democracy; global economic constitutionalism.

Prof. Abat's articles and papers regularly appear in leading peer-reviewed journals in the U.S. and Europe (e.g. American Journal of Comparative Law, Ratio Juris, Philosophia quarterly of Israel).