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This book explores how constitutional courts have transformed communication and overcome their reluctance to engage in direct dialogue with citizens.How has the information revolution affected the relationship of constitutional courts with the public and the media? The book looks in detail at the communication strategies of the US Supreme Court, the Supreme Court of Canada, and in Europe the German Federal Constitutional Tribunal, the French Conseil Constitutionnel and the Italian Constitutional Court, arguing that when it comes to the relationship between courts and the media, different jurisdictions share many similarities. It focuses on the consequences of the communication revolution of courts both in terms of their relationship with public opinion and of the legitimacy of judicial review of legislation.Some constitutional courts have attracted criticism by engaging in proactive communication and, therefore, arguably yielding to the temptation of public support. The book argues that objections to the developing institutional communications employed by courts come from a preconceived notion of public opinion. It considers the burden the communication revolution has placed on constitutional courts to achieve a balance between transparency and seclusion, proximity and distance from public opinion. It puts forward important arguments for how this balance can be achieved.The book will interest scholars in constitutional law and public comparative law, sociologists, historians, political scientists, and scholars of media law and communication studies.

This concise but comprehensive book engagingly summarizes both the broad themes and specific tenets of First Amendment law, and the strongest arguments for and against protecting controversial speech such as hate speech and disinformation. It explains the many speech-protective legal rules that emerged during the Civil Rights era, demonstrating how essential free speech is for other human rights.

Im Jahr 2020 erklärte das Bundesverfassungsgericht den § 217 StGB für nichtig. Die Autorin setzt sich mit diesem Urteil auseinander und geht der Frage nach, ob neue Gesetzesentwürfe zur Suizidbeihilfe als intensiver Eingriff des Staates in die Grundrechte mit den verfassungsrechtlichen Grundsätzen und dem Urteil in Einklang stehen. Dabei geht sie sowohl auf die Grundlagen der Straftheorie als auch auf allgemeine verfassungsrechtliche Anforderungen ein. Um dogmatische Fragen zufriedenstellend zu klären, bedient sich die Autorin interdisziplinärer Ansätze wie Rechtsgeschichte, Psychologie und Soziologie.Sie analysiert, ob die Strafbestimmungen der neuen Gesetzentwürfe ein legitimes Ziel verfolgen und ob die Maßnahme zur Erreichung dieses Ziels als Strafe besonders geeignet, erforderlich und angemessen ist.

This book is a compilation of all the studies written between 2019 and 2023 by professor Allan R. Brewer-Carías, regardinng the process of transition towards democracy initiated in Venezuela in January 2019, after the National Assembly electede in 2015 declared unexistent the illegitimate the relection of Nicolas Maduro as President of the Republic that took place on May 2018. Because that decisión which received extended International support, in absence of a legitimately elected President that could take office for the term 2019-2025, following constitutional provisions, the President of the National Assembly, Juan Guaidó, assumed as Interim President, being recognized as such by many countries, among them the United States and the United Kingdom. On Febriuary 2019 a Transition Statute towards democracy and for the restauration of the Constitution was approved, governing the actions of the Interim Government mainly for the protections of Venezuelan assets abroad. The Transition Statute was reformed in three ocasions, the last of which in January 2023, eliminating the Interim Government and establishing a sort of "parliamentary government" that does not conform to the constitutional tradition of the country, assigning a parliamentary "council" the protection os foreign assets.

El presente libro de Armando Blanco Guzmán, tiene por objeto determinar cuáles son las instituciones del derecho procesal constitucional en Venezuela y cómo ha sido su desarrollo por parte dela Sala Constitucional del Tribunal Supremo de Justicia.Para ello, el autor parte de la premisa que el derecho procesal constitucional no puede concebirse exclusivamente como una serie de reglas procedimentales, ya que según el sistema que se trate y de losmecanismos de control que se establezcan, es una partede la función jurisdiccional, que será o no desarrollada en el marco de un procedimiento autónomo y particular. Ahora bien, en los sistemas de control duales o híbridos, ese control constitucional se organiza mediante una especie de mixtura entre lasinstituciones típicas de los sistemas de control originarios y ello, ha dado lugar a nuevos sistemas con identidad propia como es el caso venezolano.

This open access book asks whether there is space for particularism in a constitutional democracy which would limit the implementation of EU law. National identity claims are a key factor in shaping our times and the ongoing evolution of the European Union. To assess their impact this collection focuses on the jurisprudence of Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia, as they play an essential role in giving life to particularism. By taking particularism as the prism through which they explore the question, the contributors offer a new analytical scheme to evaluate the judicial invocation of identity. This requires an interdisciplinary approach: the study draws on comparative constitutional law, theory, comparative-empirical material and normative-philosophical perspectives. This is a fresh and thought-provoking new study on an increasingly important question in EU law.The ebook editions of this book are available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

Is there a real and meaningful future for EU constitutionalism? This collection explores this question in light of recent challenges to EU constitutional law; namely the pandemic and the political schisms emerging across the European Union. The contributors explore the question through the prism of the five main pillars of EU constitutionalism: the constitutional values, the EU formal constitutional framework, its substance consisting of the EU political and economic constitution, and conclude by looking at the foundational concept of sovereignty (national and European) in a global realm. Drawing on expertise from both 'old' and 'new' Europe, it gives voice to the most fundamental question facing the Union in its second half century.