The Cambridge Handbook on the Material Constitution

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Despite a long and venerable tradition, the material constitution almost disappeared from constitutional scholarship after the Second World War. Its marginalisation saw the rise of a normative and legalistic style in constitutional law that neglected the role of social reality and political economy. This collection not only retrieves the history and development of the concept of the material constitution, but it tests its theoretical and practical relevance in the contemporary world. With essays from a diverse range of contributors, the collection demonstrates that the material constitution speaks to several pressing issues, from the significance of economic development in constitutional orders to questions of constitutional identity. Offering original analyses supported by international case studies, this book develops a new model of constitutional reality, one that informs our understanding of the world in profound ways.

Introduction: the return of the material constitution

Marco Goldoni and Michael A. Wilkinson

Part I. History:

1. The tradition of the material constitution in Western Marxism

Marco Goldoni and Michael A. Wilkinson

2. The soul of the state: the question of constitutional identity in Carl Schmitt's Verfassungslehre

Jens Meierhenrich

3. Laski's materialist analysis of the British constitution

Martin Loughlin

4. Rudolf Smend's legacy in German constitutional theory

Tim Wihl

5., The constitution in the material sense according to Costantino Mortati

Lucia Rubinelli

6. The material constitution of the dual State

Lars Vinx

7. 'A certain shadowy totality': in search of the material constitution of the United States

Rob Hunter

8. 'The material constitution in Greek constitutional thought'

Nikolas Vagoudtis

9. The constitution as social compromise: hybrid constitutionalisation and the legacy of Wolfgang Abendroth

Kolja Möller

10. 'Self-justifying law of constitutional law': the material constitution in Rudolf Wiethölter's critical systems theory

Gunther Teubner

Part II. Challenges:

11. The material constitution and imperialism

Eva Nanopoulos

12. The material constitution of Federation

Signe Rehling Larsen

13. The materialist turn in constitutional thought

Emilios Christodoulidis

14. Three registers of the material constitution

Neil Walker

15. What matter(s)? a processual view of the material constitution

Mariano Croce

16. The material constitution and the rule of recognition

Francesco Bilancia and Stefano Civitarese Matteucci

17. Constitutional matter and form (an exploration of constitutional language)

Denis Baranger

Part III. Analyses:

18. A material understanding of constitutional changes: revisiting 'constitutional maintenance' doctrines

Graziella Romeo

19. The material constitution in Latin American courts

Mariana Velasco-Rivera and Joel Colón-Ríos

20. A materialist analysis of the Indian constitution

Sandipto Dasgupta

21. China's material constitution

Bui Ngoc Son

22. The material constitution and extractive political economy: lessons from Mongolia

Jennifer Lander

23. The military in the material constitution of Turkey

Tarik Olcay

24. The material constitution of international investment law

Jessica Lawrence and Tom Flynn

25. The 'terrible' functional constitution of the European Union: 'sound money', economic freedom(s) and 'free competition'

Agustin José Menéndez

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