English | ASIN: B096KSQSN8 | 2021 | 27 hours and 6 minutes |MP3|M4B | 743 MB
A history of the American Constitution's formative decades from a preeminent legal scholar. When the US Constitution won popular approval in 1788, it was the culmination of 30 years of passionate argument over the nature of government. But ratification hardly ended the conversation. For the next half century, ordinary Americans and statesmen alike continued to wrestle with weighty questions in the halls of government and in the pages of newspapers. Should the nation's borders be expanded? Should America allow slavery to spread westward? What rights should Indian nations hold? What was the proper role of the judicial branch? In The Words That Made Us, Akhil Reed Amar unites history and law in a vivid narrative of the biggest constitutional questions early Americans confronted, and he expertly assesses the answers they offered. His account of the document's origins and consolidation is a guide for anyone seeking to properly understand America's Constitution today.

Richard Albert, "Constitutional Change and Transformation in Latin America"
English | ISBN: 1509923500 | 2019 | 376 pages | PDF | 4 MB
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Vestert Borger, "The Currency of Solidarity: Constitutional Transformation during the Euro Crisis "
English | ISBN: 1108836364 | 2020 | 400 pages | PDF | 8 MB
In their fight against the debt crisis, the European Union and its member states took measures that have profoundly changed the euro. It now differs fundamentally from when it was introduced by the Treaty of Maastricht. Surprisingly, this change has come about with hardly any formal amendment to the Union's 'basic constitutional charter', the Treaties. How, then, to understand it? This book argues that the constitution of the EU has transformed, which occurs when constitutions change without amendment. The transformation is characterized by a broadening of the currency union's stability conception from price stability to also financial stability. Using solidarity as a lens, the book conceptualises the unity of the member states and analyses how this was preserved during the crisis. Subsequently, it explains how that changed the currency union's set-up and why the European Court of Justice could not turn against the change in Pringle and Gauweiler.

Abdulhadi Khalaf Giacomo Luciani Constitutional Reform and Political Participation in the Gulf Gulf Research Center 2008
pdf | 1.33 MB | English | Isbn:‎ 978-9948432531 | Author: marwan | Year: 2008

How Constitutional Rights Matter by Adam Chilton and Mila Versteeg
English | Jul 9, 2020 | ISBN: 0190871458 | 396 pages | PDF | 12 MB
Does constitutionalizing rights improve respect for those rights in practice? Drawing on statistical analyses, survey experiments, and case studies from around the world, this book argues that enforcing constitutional rights is not easy, but that some rights are harder to repress than others.

The Financial Crisis in Constitutional Perspective: The Dark Side of Functional Differentiation By Gunther Teubner, Poul F. Kjaer, Alberto Febbrajo
2011 | 444 Pages | ISBN: 1841130109 | PDF | 10 MB
"This volume presents the first thorough sociologically-informed legal analysis of the financial crisis which unfolded in 2008. It combines a multitude of theoretically informed analyses of the causes, dynamics and reactions to the crisis and contextualises these within the general structural transformations characterising contemporary society. It furthermore explores the constitutional implications of the crisis and suggests concrete changes to the constitutional set-up of contemporary society. Although the question of individual responsibility is of crucial importance, the central idea animating the volume is that the crisis cannot be reduced to a mere failure of risk perception and management for which individual and collective actors within and outside of financial organisations are responsible. The 2008 crisis should rather be understood as a symptom of far deeper structural transformations. For example contemporary society is characterised by massive accelerations in the speed with which societal processes are reproduced as well as radical expansions in the level of globalisation. These transformations have, however, been asymmetrical in nature insofar as the economic system has outpaced its legal and political counterparts. The future capability of legal and political systems to influence economic reproduction processes is therefore conditioned by equally radical transformations of their respective operational forms and self-understanding. Potentially the 2008 crisis, therefore, has far-reaching constitutional implications"--Résumé de l'éditeur.

Gilbert Law Summaries on Constitutional Law, By Jesse H. Choper
2013 | 453 Pages | ISBN: 0314276173 | PDF | 9 MB

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Mark Alexander, "A Short & Happy Guide to Constitutional Law Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 1642422479 | 2019 | 207 pages | AZW3 | 704 KB

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Constitutional Courts as Positive Legislators: A Comparative Law Study By Allan R. Brewer-Carias
2011 | 962 Pages | ISBN: 1107613086 | PDF | 15 MB
In all democratic states, constitutional courts, which are traditionally empowered to invalidate or to annul unconstitutional statutes, have the role of interpreting and applying the Constitution in order to preserve its supremacy and to ensure the prevalence of fundamental rights. In this sense they were traditionally considered "negative legislators," unable to substitute the legislators or to enact legislative provisions that could not be deducted from the Constitution. During the past decade the role of constitutional courts has dramatically changed as their role is no longer limited to declaring the unconstitutionality of statutes or annulling them. Today, constitutional courts condition their decisions with the presumption of constitutionality of statutes, opting to interpret them according to or in harmony with the Constitution in order to preserve them, instead of deciding their annulment or declaring them unconstitutional. More frequently, Constitutional Courts, instead of dealing with existing legislation, assume the role of assistants or auxiliaries to the legislator, creating provisions they deduct from the Constitution when controlling the absence of legislation or legislative omissions. In some cases they act as "positive legislators," issuing temporary or provisional rules to be applied pending the enactment of legislation. This book analyzes this new role of the constitutional courts, conditioned by the principles of progressiveness and of prevalence of human rights, particularly regarding the important rediscovery of the right to equality and non-discrimination.

Roger Masterman, "The Cambridge Companion to Comparative Constitutional Law "
English | ISBN: 131661817X | 2019 | 646 pages | PDF | 3 MB

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