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Vienna Lectures on Legal Philosophy, Volume 4: Constitutional Disagreements

Coming Soon Vienna Lectures on Legal Philosophy, Volume 4: Constitutional Disagreements

Vienna Lectures on Legal Philosophy, Volume 4: Constitutional Disagreements

Author: Christoph Bezemek; Michael Potacs; Alexander Somek
Publisher: Hart Publishing
ISBN: 9781509983568
Published In: June 2026
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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In the fourth volume of the Vienna Lectures on Legal Philosophy, scholars in contemporary jurisprudence and constitutional theory discuss who gets to decide and who gets to act when constitutional law is silent or fundamentally controversial.

It is the very purpose of Constitutions to settle disagreements: to determine who gets to decide and who gets to act when it comes to the polity and its members. But what if, instead of settling disagreements among those subjected to it, the Constitution itself, its end, its functions, its meaning, its existence, becomes the subject of disagreements? What if the Constitution raises issues it is unable to address from the very outset? Who gets to decide then and who gets to act?

In a time in which constitutional crises seem to be too ubiquitous to still count as exceptions, questions such as these are asked with ever-increasing urgency. The answers to these questions cannot be found in arguments based on contingent legal stipulations but have to reach beyond the vague and fleeting instructions of positive law.

1. Democratic Law in the State of Nature: a Kantian Framework

George Pavlakos (University of Glasgow, UK)

2. Why Constitutions? The Case for Robust Constitutionalism

Alon Harel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)

3. In Defence of Constitutionalism. Navigating between a Minimal and a Total Concept of the Constitution

Anna-Bettina Kaiser (Humboldt University, Germany)

4. Constitutions, Basic Structures, and Amendments: The Metaphor of the Constitution as a House

Yaniv Roznai (Interdisciplinary Centre Herzliya, Israel)

5. Imaginary Constitutions

Martin Loughlin (The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)

6. Unveiling the Constitution: Why and How Material Constitution Doctrines Matter in Constitutional Theory?

Graziella Romeo (Bocconi University, Italy)