Public law and politics : the scope and limits of constitutionalism

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Author:

Christodoulidis, Emilios A.

ISBN:

9780754673637

Publication Information:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2008.

Physical Description:

vi, 224 p. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Edinburgh Centre for Law and Society series

Series Title:

Edinburgh Centre for Law and Society series

Contents:

Public law and politics : rethinking the debate / Emilios Christodoulidis and Stephen Tierney -- Sovereignty and the idea of public law / Stephen Tierney -- Authority, exploitation and the idea of public law / Scott Veitch -- Public law as political jurisprudence : Loughlin's 'idea of public law' / Emilios Christodoulidis -- Reflections on The idea of public law / Martin Loughlin -- On law, democracy and imperialism / James Tully -- Democracy, political reflexivity and bounded dialogues : reconsidering the monism-pluralism debate / Hans Lindahl -- The reframing of law's imperial frame : a comment on Tully / Neil Walker -- Imperialism and constitutionalism / Gavin W. Anderson -- Constitutionalism as proceduralism : a glance at the terrain / Frank Michelman -- The crisis of im/purity / Johan van der Walt -- Between engagement and disengagement : two concepts of civility / Ioannis A. Tassopoulos -- Enabling proceduralism / Victor Tadros

Subject Term:

Public law -- Philosophy.

Public law -- Political aspects.

Added Author:

Christodoulidis, Emilios A.

Tierney, Stephen.

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In a critical engagement with the function of public law and with constitutionalism in its political dimensions, this volume brings together the reflections of three leading constitutionalists: Martin Loughlin, James Tully and Frank Michelman. Comprising three critical commentaries on each, it addresses the multiple ways in which public law is implicated in the logic of rule. This operates on the one hand in maintaining and underwriting relative patterns of power and weakness through political structures and processes. On the other hand, public law is considered to contain the potential to redress these patterns through the use of constitutional authority, social and economic as well as civil and political rights, redistribution of political power, the expansion of territorial governance, and moves to supra-state levels of authority. The book reproduces, in a succinct and organized way, the insights into both the limitations and the potentialities of public law within its political setting.