Constitutional Fragments - Societal Constitutionalism and Globalization

Zusatztext sociologists of law and constitutionalism now have powerful methodological tools, a sociological conceptual framework, and invaluable sources of the new constitutional imagination which has capacity to accommodate even recent elaborations on Nietzsche's theory of command structures. Informationen zum Autor Gunther Teubner is Professor of comparative private law and legal sociology at the International University College at Torino. He is former Otto Kahn Freund Professor at the London School of Economics. At present he is Principal Investigator at the Excellence Cluster "Normative Orders" at the Goethe-University Frankfurt. He taught at the European University Institute Florence, Italy, and at the universities of Bremen and Frankfurt. He was Visiting Professor in Berkeley, Ann Arbor, Stanford, Leyden, Toronto, Berlin, and Maastricht. He received honorary doctorates from the universities Lucerne, Napoli, Tiflis, Macerata, Lund. Klappentext 0 Zusammenfassung The powerful private sectors of the world economy remain largely unconstrained by fundamental constitutional rules, leading to human rights abuses on a massive scale. This book examines how the values of constitutional governance can be applied to the private sphere in the modern world, through a network of constitutional fragments. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: The New Constitutional Question 2: Societal Constitutionalism in the Nation State 3: Transnational Constitutional Subjects: Regimes, Organisations, Networks 4: Transnational Constitutional Norms: Functions, Arenas, Processes, Structures 5: Transnational Constitutional Rights: Horizontal Effect 6: Colliding Constitutions

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• Authors: Gunther Teubner, Gunther (Professor of Law Teubner, Teubner Gunther
• Assisted by: Gareth Norbury (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2012
• EAN: 9780199644674
• ISBN: 978-0-19-964467-4
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 240 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Oxford Constitutional Theory; Oxford Constitutional Theory
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, LAW / International, LAW / Constitutional, LAW / Public, Public International Law, Constitution: government & the state, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Constitution: government and the state, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general