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Constitutional Fragments
Societal Constitutionalism and Globalization
Gunther Teubner
232 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-964467-4
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Hardback
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01 March 2012
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- An original contribution to constitutional theory that shifts the terms of debate from reliance on state constitutions to constitutions of social fields
- Breaks new ground in the sociology of constitutional law, opening new avenues of research for the empirical study of transnational, private constitutional order
- Develops new applicable doctrines on the horizontal effects of human rights and conflicts of law in transnational regime collisions
- Presents a compelling argument for the application of constitutional norms in the private sphere as a solution to the current crisis of international governance
In recent years a series of scandals have challenged the traditional political reliance on public constitutional law and human rights as a safeguard of human well-being. Multinational corporations have violated human rights; private intermediaries in the internet have threatened freedom of opinion, and the global capital markets unleashed catastrophic risks. All of these phenomena call for a response from traditional constitutionalism. Yet it is outside the limits of the nation-state in transnational politics and outside institutionalized politics, in the
'private' sectors of global society that these constitutional problems arise.
It is widely accepted that there is a crisis in traditional constitutionalism caused by transnationalization and privatization. How the crisis can be overcome is one of the major controversies of modern political and constitutional theory. This book sets out an answer to that problem. It argues that the obstinate state-and-politics-centricity of traditional constitutionalism needs to be counteracted by a sociological approach which, so far, has remained neglected in the constitutional debate. Constitutional sociology projects the questions of constitutionalism not only onto the relationship between public politics and law, but onto the whole society. It argues that constitutionalism has
the potential to counteract the expansionist tendencies of social systems outside the state world, particularly of the globalized economy, science and technology, and the information media, when they endanger individual or institutional autonomy.
The book identifies transnational regimes, particularly in the private area, as the new constitutional subjects in a global society, rivals to the order and power of nation states. It presents a model of transnational, societal constitutional fragments that could bring the values of constitutionalism to bear on these private networks, examining the potential horizontal application of human rights in the private sphere, and how such fragments could interact. An original and provocative contribution to the literature on modern
constitutionalism, Constitutional Fragments is essential reading for all those engaged in transnational political theory.Readership: Academics and students of the social sciences; Lawyers working in international law, constitutional law, private law, legal theory; transnational policy makers.
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Gunther Teubner, Professor of Law, International University College, Turin, and Excellence Cluster "Normative Orders", Goethe-Universität Frankfurt 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.
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"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." - Jiri Priban (Cardiff University), Journal of Law and Society
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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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