Administrative / Constitutional Law

New Constitutional Horizons: Towards a Pluralist Constitutional Theory

By Cormac Mac Amhlaigh
Oxford University Press April 2022

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ISBN-13
9780198852339
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication
April 2022
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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We live in a pluralist world of multi-level law and governance. More than ever before multiple legal systems and governing authorities at different levels - sub-state, state, supranational, international - are recognized as applying to, and claiming authority over, the affairs of the same sets of individuals and institutions. Yet our constitutional theories fail to adequately capture this pluralist state of affairs.

This book examines some of the key conceptual and theoretical puzzles which the contemporary state of multilevel pluralism poses for our constitutional theories. It offers fresh perspectives on these questions by addressing the pluralism of norms and authorities from the viewpoint of legality and legitimacy respectively, proposing novel solutions for pluralizing constitutional theory in the light of contemporary multilevel governance. Our turbulent times are on a steady trajectory of ever-more pluralism of law and governance to tackle the defining social and political problems of our age including populism, pandemic, and climate change and this book provides an essential intervention in debates on how to pluralize constitutional theory to better understand and, perhaps more importantly, legitimize the tools to address these increasingly shared problems.

Table of Contents

1:Introduction: The 'Circumstances of Constitutional Pluralism'
Part I: Legality
2:The Possibility of Constitutional Plurality
3:Law Beyond the Shadow of the State
4:Moving Beyond the Monist Manner in Theorizing Constitutional Plurality
Part II: Legitimacy
5:Constitutional Dualisms
6:What's Wrong with Constitutionalism? Between Cacophony and Coercion
7:What's Wrong with Transnational Constitutionalism? Dealing with the No-Demos Thesis
8:What's Right with (Transnational) Constitutionalism: Towards an Interpretative Transnational Constitutional Pluralism
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