La ciudadanía, como instrumento político-jurídico para la titularidad y ejercicio de los derechos fundamentales, afronta serios desafíos en la era digital y de expansión global de las nuevas tecnologias. Estos retos se pueden calificar como sistemicos, ya

Con ocasión del 25 aniversario de la Constitución española, Julio Somoano nos propone un enriquecedor diálogo con los siete padres de la Carta Magna española, un documento que aseguró la convivencia democratica en España y cuyo contenido, a veces, se desconoce y cuestiona. Con rigor y perspectiva, Somoano analiza el papel de este texto en nuestra sociedad y aborda sus puntos mas polemicos, desde los limites a los nacionalismos al papel de la Corona y el futuro del Senado...

Cuarta vez que se edita en España esta obra clásica de F. Lassalle sobre la teoría de la constitución.

Esta es una obra "clásica", es decir, vigente, valiosa y proyectada al futuro. Se publicó por primera vez en el umbral de las primeras constituyentes y respondía a la necesidad de las fuerzas políticas de revisar las grandes concepciones sobre la constitucion y su problematica. Esta nueva edicion se publica en momentos dramaticos. La Constitucion de 1978 lleva suficientes años de vigencia y ya ha mostrado su capacidad para organizar la convivencia pacifica de los españoles, pese a las dificultades mas obvias (crisis economica, terrorismo?). El profesor Eliseo Aja, de la Universidad de Barcelona, ha enriquecido esta edicion con su "Introduccion al concepto actual de Constitucion", trabajo en el que hace un recuento historico y conceptual de la problematica constitucional, al tiempo que pune de manifiesto los elementos vigentes de la obra clasica de Ferdinand Lassalle y señala su contribucion a la teoria de la Constitucion.

Se me ha invitado a pronunciar ante vosotros una conferencia, para la cual he elegido un tema cuya importancia no necesita encarecimiento, por su gran actualidad.

Esta es una obra “clásica”, es decir, vigente, valiosa y proyectada al futuro. Se publicó por primera vez en el umbral de las primeras constituyentes y respondía a la necesidad de las fuerzas políti

Los retos de las Comunidades aautonómas en el difícil proceso de construcción de la Unión Europea. Hasta qué punto son necesarias las reformas estatutarias. Se analizan los contenidos estatuarios "desconstitucionalizados". Atribucion y delimitacion de competencias, asi como la labor del Tribunal Constitucional en la construccion del Estado Autonomico.

En la España de hoy están en disputa dos modelos de Estado: el de los territoios y el de los ciudadanos….

El trabajo que sigue, podría ser esquematizado en dos bloques en función de la metodología aplicada. 1º Estudia el origen del derecho de autodeterminación en la Historia Política y en la Historia de las Ideas, desde una triple perspectiva: mundial, nacional española y vasca. - Marcado por la lectura y la cita de autores y en el que las aportaciones propias de quien hace el trabajo son reducidas. 2º Representa en gran medida las conclusiones e ideas de quien desarrolla este estudio, y es quiza el que, aporta una mayor novedad bibliografica a la materia en cuestion. - En el que acercandose al objetivo central del trabajo, las aportaciones propias, cobran cuerpo quedando las citas de autores en segundo plano.

BALAGUER CALLEJÓN, Mª Luisa (Ed.)Los días 16 y 17 de octubre de 2003 se celebró en la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Málaga un Congreso con motivo del XXV Aniversario de la Constitución Española, dirigido por la Catedratica de Derecho Constitucional de la citada Universidad Maria Luisa Balaguer Callejon. El Congreso reunio a algunos de los mas destacados constitucionalistas españoles, y conto con una muy selecta representacion de la doctrina italiana y alemana, para analizar algunas de las cuestiones mas importantes que en la actualidad se plantean en la realidad constitucional española. El contenido de este Congreso de Conmemoracion se recoge ahora en este volumen de la coleccion Actas.

Working Time and Holidays: A Practical Legal Guide acts as a concise, affordable, and practical guide to the Working Time Regulations 1998. There were 55,712 claims registered in the Employment Tribunals as "Working Time" claims in 2008, and the area is increasingly one on which almost all employment lawyers will need to advise. The book aims to demystify what is viewed as a difficult and technical area of the law.The book examines topics such as the maximum working week, rest and breaks, annual leave, night work, young workers, and unfair dismissal, detriment and enforcement. The substantial body of case law in the ten years since the implementation of the Regulations, and the amending legislation (including the Working Time (Amendment) Regulations 2007) is brought together and discussed.Working Time and Holidays: A Practical Legal Guide is structured so that answers to questions can be easily found and understood - using case studies, frequently asked questions, and checklists. The book also contains appendices which include both the text of the Regulations, and useful precedents such as an opt out agreement, contractual clauses, annual leave policy, and a record keeping checklist.

The Wisconsin State Constitution provides an outstanding constitutional and historical account of the states governing charter. In addition to an overview of Wisconsins constitutional history, it provides an in-depth, section-by-section analysis of the entire constitution, detailing the many significant changes that have been made since its initial drafting. This treatment, along with a table of cases, index, and bibliography provides an unsurpassed reference guide for students, scholars, and practitioners of Wisconsins constitution. The second edition adds commentary on significant Wisconsin Supreme Court cases and a few appellate court cases decided after 1995 through 2018. It also adds several resources to the bibliography and covers 23 years of history including several new constitutional amendments. Previously published by Greenwood, this title has been brought back in to circulation by Oxford University Press with new verve. Re-printed with standardization of content organization in order to facilitate research across the series, this title, as with all titles in the series, is set to join the dynamic revision cycle of The Oxford Commentaries on the State Constitutions of the United States. The Oxford Commentaries on the State Constitutions of the United States is an important series that reflects a renewed international interest in constitutional history and provides expert insight into each of the 50 state constitutions. Each volume in this innovative series contains a historical overview of the states constitutional development, a section-by-section analysis of its current constitution, and a comprehensive guide to further research. Under the expert editorship of Professor Lawrence Friedman of New England Law School - Boson, this series provides essential reference tools for understanding state constitutional law. Books in the series can be purchased individually or as part of a complete set, giving readers unmatched access to these important political documents.

An elected judiciary is virtually unique to the American experience and creates a paradox in a representative democracy. Elected judges take an oath to uphold the law impartially, which calls upon them to swear off the influence of the very constituencies they must cultivate in order to attain and retain judicial office. This paradox has given rise to perennially shrill and unproductive binary arguments over the merits and demerits of elected and appointed judiciaries, which this project seeks to transcend and reimagine. In Who Is to Judge?, judicial politics expert Charles Gardner Geyh exposes and explains the overstatements of both sides in the judicial selection debate. When those exaggerations are understood as such, it becomes possible to search for common ground and its limits. Ultimately, this search leads Geyh to conclude that, while appointive systems are a preferable default, no one system of selection is best for all jurisdictions at all times.

It is safe to say that a sizeable majority of the worlds population would agree with the proposition that that property rights are important for political and social stability as well as economic growth. But what happens when the state fails to enforce such rights? Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, this is in fact an endemic problem. In Where There is No Government, Sandra Joireman explains how weak state enforcement regimes have allowed private institutions in sub-Saharan Africa to define and enforce property rights. After delineating the types of actors who step in when the state is absent--traditional tribal leaders, entrepreneurial bureaucrats, NGOs, and violent groups--she argues that the institutions they develop can be helpful or predatory depending on their incentives and context. Because such institutions are neither inherently good nor inherently bad, Joireman develops a set of measurement criteria to assess which types of property regimes and enforcement mechanisms are helpful and which are harmful to social welfare.

We the People traza la historia del constitucionalismo estadounidense, desde la fundación de la República hasta la revolución de los derechos civiles de la década de 1960 y la crisis actual provocada por la governance neoliberal, para afirmar con todo vigor la funcion primordial desempeñada por el poder constituyente del pueblo estadounidense en el ritmo de produccion de la norma constitucional y del derecho positivo. Lejos de afirmar un modelo constitucional basado en la reproduccion de la norma juridica al ritmo de los equilibrios de un poder constituido congelado en el tiempo, el profesor Ackerman reivindica y reconstruye con toda precision teorica los momentos historico-constitucionales, producto genuino de procesos intensisimos de lucha de clases y de antagonismo social, en los que la voz del pueblo se impone en un complejo juego de desplazamientos de los equilibrios institucionales y de innovaciones en el campo juridico-constitucional. En el caso de la historia estadounidense, la fundacion de la Republica contra el dominio colonial, la Guerra Civil contra el Sur racista, el New Deal contra el modelo del laissez faire liberal y la revolucion de los derechos civiles contra el segregacionismo del sistema de Jim Crow han supuesto una mutacion fundamental del pacto constitucional de la nacion y la inauguracion de un nuevo ciclo politico y legislativo. Estos puntos de inflexion despliegan con toda nitidez la potencia del poder constituyente contra la usurpacion tendencial de los sucesivos pactos constitucionales por el poder constituido ligado a las clases y los grupos sociales, cuyo poder proviene de estructuras de dominacion que la constitucion politica intenta someter a la voluntad democratica del pueblo. El libro contiene, pues, una teoria de la constitucion entendida como resultado de la radicalizacion de la democracia mediante la imposicion de nuevas cartas de derechos fruto de las nuevas necesidades politicas y socioeconomicas de la inmensa mayoria.

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This monograph comprehensively examines water law regulations and reform in the present decade, going beyond a simple analysis of existing water law and regulations to encompass environmental, social, economic, and human rights aspects of water as a natural resource.

This book studies the evolution of the war prerogative in England from 1600-2012. It traces the historical theory and practice of the war prerogative and proposes reform of the constitutional arrangements for its exercise. It addresses three key questions. First, what have writers on political and constitutional theory said about the constitutional arrangements for the war prerogative, and, in particular, what justifications have been advanced for those arrangements? Secondly, in practice, has the executive in fact possessed sole and exclusive powers over war and the deployment of force, or have Parliament and the courts had a role to play in their exercise and scrutiny? Thirdly, are there better ways to organize our constitutional arrangements for the war prerogative, to enable a more substantive role for Parliament (particularly the House of Commons) in its exercise and scrutiny? On the first question, it is shown that orthodox theoretical and political discourses have continuously asserted the executives exclusive power over war, but the justifications advanced for that arrangement have changed over time. Those changes reflect the varying influence of different political theories at different times. On the second question, it is found that, contrary to orthodox theoretical and political discourses, Parliament has played an active and substantive role in the exercise and scrutiny of the war prerogative. The courts have refused to intervene in the exercise of the war prerogative, but have been more ready to intervene in cases involving the exercise of powers incidental to the war prerogative. On the third question, it is argued that reform of the constitutional arrangements for the war prerogative is necessary and desirable. The use of institutional mechanisms is recommended, which are small-scale rules and institutional arrangements, within existing institutions, which aim to promote certain normative goals. In particular, the enactment of a statute is proposed, which would impose conditions on the executives exercise of its war prerogative. It is argued that these proposals show that, through careful institutional design, democratic values, national security, and operational efficiency can each be reconciled and promoted.