Format:
1 Online-Ressource (321 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780192590749
Series Statement:
Oxford Comparative Constitutionalism Ser
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Although the Global South represents 'most of the world' in terms of constitutions and population, it is underrepresented in comparative constitutional discourse. This book fills the gap in this scholarship by tackling the most important aspects of comparative law from the Southern perspective
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Cover -- Series -- The Global South and Comparative Constitutional Law -- Copyright -- Summary Contents -- Detailed Contents -- List of Contributors -- 1. The Southern Turn in Comparative Constitutional Law: An Introduction -- A. Introduction and Argument -- B. Towards a Southern Turn in Comparative Constitutional Law -- 1. The notion of the Global South and its use in neighbouring disciplines -- 2. The Global South in comparative constitutional law: a brief intellectual history -- 3. Approaches in contemporary constitutional scholarship -- C. Southern Constitutionalism as Distinctive Constitutional Experience -- 1. Context: the colonial experience and geopolitical asymmetries -- 2. Themes: socio-economic transformation, political struggle, and justice -- D. Implications for Comparative Constitutional Scholarship: South as Sensibility -- 1. Epistemic reflexivity -- 2. Methodological pluralism -- 3. Institutional diversification, collaboration, slow comparison -- E. Conclusion -- 2. Facing South: On the Significance of An/Other Modernity in Comparative Constitutional Law -- A. Prolegomenon -- B. On Nomenclature -- C. Facing (the) South in Legal Modernity -- D. The South in the West: Ideology Critique and Epistemic Justice -- E. The South as the West: Towards (a) Meridional Modernity -- 3. (Global) Constitutionalism and the Geopolitics of Knowledge -- A. Introduction -- B. The Geopolitics of Knowledge and Constitutionalism -- C. Global Constitutionalism and Neoliberalism: A Brief Genealogy -- 1. The first generation of global constitutionalists -- 2. The second generation of global constitutionalists -- 3. The third generation of global constitutionalists -- D. Decolonizing Global Constitutionalism? -- E. Conclusion -- 4. Comparing as (Re-)Imagining: Southern Perspective and the World of Constitutions -- A. Introduction
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1. Constituting: in contemporary constitutional thought (and beyond) -- 2. Comparing: in contemporary constitutional studies -- 3. Comparing: in critical legal studies -- 4. On comparing (from a perspective) -- B. Beyond Standpoints: Perception, Location, and Polemical Imagination -- 1. Global South and the (non-)urban way of life -- C. Conclusion: The World of Constitutions beyond Juridical Metaphorology -- 5. Legal Innovation as a Global Public Good: Remaking Comparative Law as Indigenization -- A. Introduction: A New Paradigm for Comparative Law -- B. Comparative Law and National Competition -- C. Leaving Behind the Parochial Past, Engaging the Global Present -- D. Institutional and Pedagogical Duties of the Critical Comparativist -- E. Conclusion: Comparative Law as Domestic Reform Stimulus -- 6. Transformative Constitutionalism as a Model for Africa? -- A. Introduction -- B. How to Understand Transformative Constitutionalism? -- 1. Constitutions as bridges or agents of change -- C. Constitutionalism in Postcolonial Africa -- D. Transformative Constitutionalism and Constitutional Models -- 1. 'Lawfare' and transformative constitutionalism -- 2. The resurgence of African constitutionalism -- E. Conclusion -- 7. Transformative Constitutionalism: A View from Brazil -- A. Introduction -- B. Locating Transformative Constitutionalism -- C. Divergent Paths to Transformative Constitutionalism: The Case of Brazil -- D. Separation of Powers, Political Dynamics, and Optical Illusions -- 1. Democratic politics and judicial change -- 2. The 'mission accomplished syndrome' -- 3. Not all judicial wins are victories for transformative constitutionalism -- E. Concluding Remarks: Back to Politics? -- 8. Postcolonial Proportionality: Johar, Transformative Constitutionalism, and Same-Sex Rights in India
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A. Introduction: Two Conceptions of Transformative Constitutionalism-Anti-Colonial and Cosmopolitan -- B. Proportionality, Transformative Constitutionalism, and Constitutional Transitions -- C. Johar: Cosmopolitanism and Anti-Colonialism -- 1. Cosmopolitanism -- 2. Anti-colonialism -- D. Conclusion -- 9. Socio-Economic Rights and Expanding Access to Justice in South Africa: What Can Be Done? -- A. Introduction: Access to Justice, Fundamental Rights, and the Global South -- B. Access to Justice as a Capability -- C. Barriers to Gaining Access to Remedies in Socio-Economic Rights Cases: The South African Experience -- 1. The individual dimension -- 2. The institutional dimension -- (a) The Public Protector -- (b) The South African Human Rights Commission -- (c) The courts -- D. Widening Access to Justice in Fundamental Rights Matters: Exploring the Possibilities -- 1. Expanding internal individual capabilities -- 2. Institutional solutions -- (a) Expanding the capacities of Chapter Nine institutions -- (b) Expanding the capacity of courts and developing their structure -- (i) Create specialist courts -- (ii) Grant fundamental rights jurisdiction expressly to lower courts -- (iii) High court and Appellate jurisdiction focused on structural cases -- 3. Scarcity and access to justice -- E. Conclusion -- 10. Inequality and the Constitution: From Equality to Social Rights -- A. Introduction: Three Different Approaches -- B. The Republican Approach -- 1. Egalitarian reforms, rather than social rights -- 2. Legal, political, and economic changes -- 3. An anti-presidentialist drive -- C. The Liberal-Conservative Approach -- D. The Social-Conservative Approach -- E. Conclusions: Lessons Learnt (or Not): How (Not) to Defend an Egalitarian Constitutional Approach
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11. Same Bed, Different Dreams: Constitutionalism and Legality in Asian Hybrid Regimes -- A. Introduction -- B. Constitutionalism and Legality in Asian Authoritarian States -- C. Conditions for Stable and Functional Constitutions and Legality in Hybrid Regimes -- 1. Fragmentation -- 2. Reconfiguration -- 3. Performance accountability -- 4. Discussion -- D. From Authoritarian Legality towards Liberalism and Democracy -- 1. Linear theory -- 2. Pitfalls of the linear theory -- 3. The neutrality of legality -- E. Conclusion -- 12. The Challenge of Transforming Mexican Authoritarian Constitutionalism -- A. Introduction -- B. Common Features of Authoritarian Constitutionalism -- C. Authoritarian Constitutionalism Reconsidered -- 1. Constitutions with an authoritarian or a liberal content? -- 2. Practical and ideological functions of liberal democratic constitutions in authoritarian constitutionalism -- 3. Constitutionalist discourse in authoritarian constitutionalism -- (a) Creating constitutional aspirations -- (b) Making any real change implausible -- D. Some Examples of Mexican Authoritarian Constitutionalism -- E. Conclusions -- Index
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Dann, Philipp The Global South and Comparative Constitutional Law Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated,c2020 ISBN 9780198850403
Language:
English
Subjects:
Law
Keywords:
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