Cosmopolitan Constitution

Zusatztext One... reads in Somek's pages an absorbing critical genealogy of the modern constitutional project. Informationen zum Autor Alexander Somek is the Charles E. Floete Chair in Law at the University of Iowa. Somek is the author of a number of books including Individualism: An Essay on the Authority of the European Union, Engineering Equality: An Essay on European Anti-Discrimination Law, and numerous articles. His major areas of research are European Union Law, Comparative Constitutional Law, Public International Law, and Jurisprudence. Klappentext This book looks at the changes of the foundations of constitutional authority since the eighteenth century. Somek argues that post WWII, people are no longer the fountain of authority, instead the new commitment to human rights and the 'peer review system' among nations, marks the advent of the cosmopolitan constitution. Zusammenfassung This book looks at the changes of the foundations of constitutional authority since the eighteenth century. Somek argues that post WWII, people are no longer the fountain of authority, instead the new commitment to human rights and the 'peer review system' among nations, marks the advent of the cosmopolitan constitution. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: One Point Zero: Powers 2: Two Point Zero: Recognition 3: Dignity and Emancipation 4: Three Point Zero: Transcendence 5: The Two Faces of the Cosmopolitan Constitution

Product details

• Authors: Alexander Somek, Alexander (Charles E. Floete Chair in Law Somek, Somek Alexander
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.10.2016
• EAN: 9780198797944
• ISBN: 978-0-19-879794-4
• No. of pages: 304
• 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, Human rights & civil liberties law, LAW / Civil Rights, Law: Human rights and civil liberties, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law