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Landa, Arroyo César. "The comparative constitutional law on national constitutional system: with regard to the IX World Congress of Constitutional Law." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2015. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/116290.
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From the process of globalization of law, the comparative constitutional law has gained a leading role for a better understanding and solving old and new constitutional national and international challenges. Therefore, some assumptions and considerations to take into account are presented for the development of the national constitutional order within the framework of the comparative constitutional law, such as universality and relativism of human rights; the concept of power and constitutional democracy; standards of free elections and judicial independence; freedom of expression, media pluralism and access to public information; the economic,social and cultural rights; the new fundamental rights.<br>A partir del proceso de globalización del derecho, el derecho constitucional comparado ha ido adquiriendo un rol protagónico para una mejor comprensión y solución de los viejos y nuevos desafíos constitucionales, tanto nacionales como internacionales. Por ello, se presentan algunos presupuestos y consideraciones temáticas a tomar en cuenta para el desarrollo del ordenamiento constitucional nacional en el marco del derecho constitucional comparado, tales como la universalidad y el relativismo de los derechos humanos; el concepto de poder y democracia constitucional; los estándares de elecciones libres e independencia judicial; la libertad de expresión, la pluralidad informativa y el acceso a la información pública; los derechos económicos, sociales y culturales, y; los nuevos derechos fundamentales.
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Cadinot, Clément. "Les Préambules des constitutions : approche comparative." Thesis, Bordeaux, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018BORD0340.
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Les préambules constitutionnels sont répandus à travers le monde, depuis le constitutionnalisme de la fin du XVIIIème. A ce jour, plus de deux constitutions sur trois dans le monde en sont précédées. Pourtant, leur nature suscite un faible intérêt pour la doctrine, voire même un rejet. Pourtant, l'intérêt que leur porte constituants contemporains et l'utilisation qui en est faite par les juges constitutionnels invalide cette position de principe. Il convient de s'attacher à la variété des préambules constitutionnels à travers le monde, en dégager des fonctions et comprendre leurs utilisations contentieuses (ce qui n'exclut nullement la possibilité que certaines juridictions constitutionnelles ne s'y réfèrent pas). A ces fins, une approche marco-comparative puis micro-comparative semblent nécessaires pour embrasser cet objet juridique rarement étudié de manière systématique<br>Constitutional Preambles are worldwide spread from the late 18st Century constitutionalism. And today, more than two to three constitutions are opened with such a Preamble. Yet, regarding to their particuliar nature, law studies dealing with them are quite rare, if not deny them. However, the certain onstituents'interest to them and their use by constitutional judges just disprove it. A broad and methodic study dealing with the wide range of Preambles shall be established in ordre to understand their functions and their judicial uses - though a jurisdiction can not use them. To that end, a broad - macro-comparativ - and then a micro-comparativ study must be done, since a systematic study on Preambles has not been done
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Bertrand, Marine. "Documents parlementaires et écriture de la loi." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018AIXM0495/document.
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Les choix réalisés par les parlementaires dans l’exercice de leurs fonctions sont le résultat d’une analyse des motivations des citoyens. La morale est de plus en plus invoquée au sein de la sphère politique. De la vision portée sur le monde dépend la stabilité d’un système politique car une crise de moralité peut tout bouleverser. Les religions ne sont plus les premières sources de conduites, les mœurs non plus, et l’altérité n’est plus d’aucun secours. L’être humain est plus que jamais en quête d’un idéal. La référence à une norme supérieure pourrait-elle être remplacée par la référence à une norme suprême ? C’est sous ce vocable qu’apparaît la constitution dont l’importance va alors au-delà de l’impact normatif. Le droit constitutionnel et le droit parlementaire sont étroitement liés. Les citoyens ont non seulement besoin de définir la place du parlement au prisme d’une aspiration idéalisée, mais aussi que le rôle du parlement doit s’y conformer autant que possible. La difficulté est alors de savoir si la vie parlementaire doit immuablement s’accorder aux règles constitutionnelles ou si à l’inverse la construction évolutive des pratiques parlementaires doit guider des mutations constitutionnelles. Le pouvoir législatif exercé par les parlementaires dépend des fondements juridiques de leurs prérogatives mais aussi des éléments qui fondent leurs choix ainsi que les conséquences qui y sont attachées. Autrement dit, écrire la loi est un phénomène qui présente nécessairement des antécédents. Ces éléments peuvent être appréhendés sous forme de documents. Ainsi le sujet s’intitule : « Documents parlementaires et écriture de la loi »<br>The choices made by parliamentarians in the exercise of their functions are the result of an analysis of the motivations of citizens. Morality is more and more invoked within the political sphere. The vision of the world depends on the stability of a political system because a crisis of morality can upset everything. Religions are no longer the first sources of conduct, nor is morality and otherness no longer helpful. The human being is more than ever in search of an ideal. Could the reference to a higher standard be replaced by the reference to a supreme standard? It is under this term that the constitution appears whose importance goes beyond the normative impact. Constitutional law and parliamentary law are closely linked. Citizens not only need to define the place of parliament through the lens of an idealized aspiration, but also that the role of parliament must conform as much as possible to it. The difficulty is then to know if the parliamentary life must immutably agree to the constitutional rules or if conversely the evolutionary construction of the parliamentary practices must guide constitutional changes. Legislative power exercised by parliamentarians depends on the legal basis of their prerogatives but also on the elements that underpin their choices and the consequences attached to them. In other words, writing the law is a phenomenon that necessarily has antecedents. These elements can be apprehended as documents. The subject is entitled "Parliamentary documents and the writing of the law"
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Amit, Roei. "Les paradoxes constitutionnels : le cas de la constitution israélienne /." Paris : Connaissances et Savoirs, 2007. http://www.gbv.de/dms/spk/sbb/recht/toc/528178245.pdf.
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Wamunyima, Mbololwa. "Constitution making in Zambia : the need for a new perspective." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/1243.
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"While public participation in constitution-making is recognised under international law, its extent is not elaborated. This has resulted in governments pursuing constitution-making processes that, despite involving public participation, do not involve meaningful public participation. As shall be illustrated in this study, this is the dilemma faced in Zambia. Zambia has experienced constitutional instability since independence. It has had four constitutions since then, and is currently in the process of making its fifth. This will represent an average of a new constitution every eight years: one of the highest rates of constitutional change in Commonwealth Africa. This is an unimpressive record in so far as it is generally accepted that a constitution defines and limits the exercise of governmental power, and regulates major political activities in a country. It cannot, therefore, be frequently subjected to change like any other ordinary piece of legislation. ... This study constitutes five chapters. Chapter one introduces the study. Chapter two analyses the origins and nature of government and constitution. Chapter three examines and analyses the constitutional development process in Zambia from the pre-colonial period to the current time. In chapter four, the making of the current constitution of South Africa is duscussed and analysed. Chapter five provides the conclusion and recommendations." -- Introduction.<br>Thesis (LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa)) -- University of Pretoria, 2006.<br>Prepared under the supervision of Prof. Edward Kofi Quashigah at the Faculty of Law, University of Ghana, Legon<br>http://www.chr.up.ac.za/academic_pro/llm1/dissertations.html<br>Centre for Human Rights<br>LLM
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Mustapha, Nadira. "Muhammad Hamidullah and Islamic constitutional law." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=33916.
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The socio-political tranquility of Hyderabad-Deccan preceding 1948 facilitated much educational and cultural advancement. This rapidly developing environment provided Hamidullah with the ideal opportunity for educational growth, having earned five degrees related to the field of law by the age of 28 in 1936. He began writing at age 18, and thereafter he dedicated his life to literary pursuits. Today, he has written over 100 books and 900 articles; he speaks over 20 languages and writes in over 10 languages. Along with one of his major areas of focus, Islamic constitutional law, he has written on a variety of other subject areas, ranging from Islamic theology to Islamic history, from Qur'anic exegesis to Orientalism.<br>This thesis attempts to study five books in the field of Islamic constitutional law by Dr. Muhammad Hamidullah in order to provide a sample to judge and analyze his scholarship. Against the background of Hamidullah's historical and political context coupled with his high level of religiosity, the thesis will examine his utilization of the scientific approach throughout his writings. This thesis furthermore looks at the potential reasons he chose the path of study that he did, dedicating his entire life to the literary sphere and to a lesser degree the political sphere. It focuses on Hamidullah's thought and methodology as they emerged from his social and political background and as he expressed them in his literary achievements. This thesis, therefore, sets out to develop a critical analysis of Hamidullah's works, his philosophical perspective, and his contribution to contemporary scholarship.<br>Hamidullah has contributed to Islamic scholarship by making available Islamic literature to mixed audiences since he follows the scientific approach, writes in a variety of languages, and covers a wide range of unique topics. Indeed Dr. Muhammad Hamidullah is a well-esteemed scholar of formidable status and prestige in numerous fields of Islamic history.
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Yap, Po Jen. "Constitutional dialogue in common law Asia." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.648886.
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SCHOLTES, Julian. "The abuse of constitutional identity : Illiberal constitutional discourse and European constitutional pluralism." Doctoral thesis, European University Institute, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/1814/73873.
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Defence date: 21 January 2022<br>Examining Board: Professor Gábor Halmai, (EUI); Professor Martijn Hesselink, (EUI); Professor Alexander Somek, (University of Vienna); Professor Neil Walker, (University of Edinburgh)<br>‘Constitutional identity’ has become a key argument in the negotiation of authority between national legal orders and the legal order of the European Union. Many national constitutional courts have declared that the reach of EU law is limited by certain core elements of the national constitution, often labelled ‘constitutional identity’. However, the rise of ‘illiberal democracies’ within the European Union, especially exemplified by the democratic backsliding of Hungary and Poland, has put constitutional identity into a questionable spotlight. Both countries have been leaning on the constitutional identity to both erode European legality and defend their authoritarian constitutional projects againstEuropean criticism. This dissertation deals with the question of how to delimit legitimate invocations of constitutional identity from abuses of constitutional identity. It develops a typology of constitutional identity abuse in three dimensions: The generative, the substantive, and the relational. The generative dimension is concerned with how a constitutional identity claim has come about, its relation to constituent power, constitutional enactment and amendment, the independence of courts, and the regulation of historical memory. The substantive dimension deals with what a constitutional identity claim entails, digging into the normative expectations invoked by the concept and the ways in which it ought to be regarded as intertwined with and embedded in a normative conception of constitutionalism. Finally, the relational dimension is concerned with how a constitutional identity claim is advanced. Advancing a constitutional identity claim in the European legal space evokes notions of diversity, dialogue, recognition, and pluralism, which need to be reciprocated. In each of these dimensions, ways in which constitutional identity can be abused will be identified, using Europe’s ‘backsliding democracies’ Hungary and Poland as the primary case studies, while discussing other countries where appropriate.
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Tremblay, Luc B. "The cement of constitution : the rule of law; an essay in Canadian constitutional theory." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.334837.
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Smilov, Daniel. "Judicial discretion in constitutional jurisprudence : doctrines and policies of the Bulgarian constitutional court." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.275738.
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Fischer, Robert. "Die Offenheit des deutschen Grundgesetzes und der spanischen Verfassung für den Fortgang der europäischen Integration zugleich ein Beitrag zur Dogmatik von Art. 23 I GG und Art. 93 S.I CE /." Konstanz : Hartung-Gorre Verlag, 1999. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/50569710.html.
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Fisseha, Yonatan Tesfaye. "Who interprets the constitution: A descriptive and normative discourse on the Ethiopian approach to constitutional review." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2005. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&.
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This study explored the process of constitutional interpretation and constitutional review in Ethiopia and determined the role of the courts. It examined the different suggestions made by different authors and officials regarding the respective role and function of the courts and the House of Federation in interpreting the constitution and exercising the power of constitutional review. It also seeked to inquire the counter-majoritarian problem which focused on the relationship between judicial review and democracy. The thesis also inquired into the legitimacy of the Ethiopian approach to constitutional review. In this regard it seeked to determine whether the approach represents and adequate response to the counter-majoritarian problem. It also seeked to determine whether Ethiopia has adopted an institution that is well suited, competent and impartial to discharge the task of constitutional interpretation and constitutional review.
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Muller, Melissa. "Reunification and Reconstruction as Constitutional Moments: Constitutional Identity in Germany and the United States." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1859.
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This thesis employs the lens of constitutional identity to engage in a comparative analysis of Germany during reunification and the United States during Reconstruction. I argue that these developments should be considered constitutional moments that fundamentally shifted the ways each country conceptualized citizenship, economic liberties, and federalism. Moreover, the similarities between these shifts highlight an overarching logic to constitutional design by showing why realizing these re-conceptualizations required substantive changes to constitutional mechanisms and delegation of powers. Ultimately my thesis emphasizes the analytical power of constitutional identity and critiques a variety of perspectives on Reconstruction, including those found in the majority opinions in the Slaughterhouse Cases and Civil Rights Cases.
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Herlin-Karnell, Ester. "The constitutional dimension of European criminal law." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.539962.
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Rubio, Patricio. "Cultural, social and economic rights in the Constitution corpus and Constitutional Court’s Case Law." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2013. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/116539.
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This article deals with Cultural, Social and Economic Rights established in the Constitution and in Constitutional Case Law. So, after explaining its nature, state’s role according preservation and enforceability,relationship with other fundamental rights, among other key points, it isi ntended to answer, dealing with those rights, which of two scenarios have prevailed: internationalization of constitutional law or constitutionalization of international law.<br>El presente artículo versa sobre la presencia de los derechos económicos sociales y culturales (DESC) en la Constitución y en la jurisprudencia constitucional. Así, tras abordar su naturaleza, el rol estatal respecto de su preservación, su exigibilidad y su relación con otros derechos fundamentales, entre otros importantes aspectos, intenta responder si en el tratamiento de los DESC en nuestro país se ha producido una internacionalización del derecho constitucional o más bien una constitucionalización del derecho internacional.
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Smith, Graham Richard. "Police crime : a constitutional perspective." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1998. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1349601/.
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It is held that the police officer is liable at criminal and civil law the same as the citizen; given constitutional expression in the common law office of constable. Yet, in the execution of their duty police officers are prone to committing a range of criminal offences - assault, false imprisonment, perverting the course of justice - defined in this thesis as police crimes. Statistical analysis reveals that police officers are rarely prosecuted for these offences, suggesting that criminal liability is an illusion, and civil proceedings have become an increasingly popular remedy for police wrongdoing. This thesis holds that ss.48 and 49 of the Police Act 1964 played a prominent part in undermining the police officer's accountability to the law. This was achieved under s.48 by removing the police officer's personal responsibility for his wrongdoing at civil law, and introduction of a vicarious liability rule. And, under s.49, by definition of reports of alleged criminal offences committed by police officers as complaints, and codification of a separate criminal procedure. Since the 1964 Act, statute and case law on police wrongdoing have caused further damage to the constitutional position by emphasising the internal police complaint and disciplinary processes and devaluing issues of liability. It is argued that there is a conflict between the ancient office of constable and the recently developed doctrine of constabulary independence, and it is proposed that a 'balance model' accurately reflects the constitutional position of the police. This thesis examines recent developments at common law alongside the statutory trend, including intended reform of the complaint and discipline processes, and concludes that the integrity of the constitutional position has been seriously damaged. It is proposed that the police officer is no longer accountable to the law for his wrongdoing in like manner as the citizen, and the office of constable survives as a constitutional fiction.
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Aroney, Nicholas Theodore 1966. "The Federal Commonwealth of Australia : a study in the formation of its constitution." Monash University, Faculty of Law, 2001. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8864.
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Fagan, Anton. "Constitutional adjudication in South Africa." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.363516.
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Fuwongcharoen, Puli. "Constitutions and legitimisation : the cases of Siam's permanent constitution and Japan's postwar constitution." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/283934.
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Zhou, Han-Ru. "Implied constitutional principles." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ca2491fc-a372-4adc-afe0-2f832fcc7082.
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This thesis challenges some of the current limits to the grounds for judicial review of legislation accepted by most Canadian jurists. More specifically, it makes a common law-based argument in favour of the priority over legislation of principles which are implied from the Imperial Constitution Acts 1867-1982 and which originally derive from the English constitution – namely implied constitutional principles. The argument faces two main interrelated legal objections: Parliamentary sovereignty and the Framers’ intentions. The first objection is rebutted by arguing that Parliamentary sovereignty possesses an ability to change in a way that can incorporate substantive legal limitations. The most prevalent common law-based theories of change to Parliamentary sovereignty suggest that the courts can authoritatively determine if implied constitutional principles can check legislation. The second objection is rebutted by reference to the notion of progressive interpretation as conceived under Hartian and Dworkinian theories of law and adjudication. Under these theories, progressive interpretation is an aspect of the courts’ best overall interpretation of the constitution, which includes implied constitutional principles. Such progressive interpretation can result in these principles constraining legislative authority. Justification of the progressive interpretation of implied constitutional principles can be based on the rule of law from which derive a number of these principles. One plausible conception of the Canadian rule of law is that it rejects the view that implied constitutional principles can prevail when in conflict with legislation. However, the better conception is that, as an attempt to adapt implied constitutional principles to relevant changes in society and to protect their underlying values, the judiciary should interpret these principles as capable of checking legislation to the extent that they form part of the core content of the rule of law. Such a conception and an operation of implied constitutional principles can properly be explained by Hartian or Dworkinian common law-based progressive interpretation of these principles and by their relationship with legislative authority.
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Schmidt, Christian Hermann. "Vorrang der Verfassung und konstitutionelle Monarchie eine dogmengeschichtliche Untersuchung zum Problem der Normenhierarchie in den deutschen Staatsordnungen im frühen und mittleren 19. Jahrhundert (1818-1866) /." Berlin : Duncker & Humblot, 2000. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/45716296.html.
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Olcay, Tarik. "Constitutional unamendability : an evaluative justification." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2018. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/38979/.
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This thesis studies the justifications for constitutional unamendability. First, it introduces the basic concepts and distinctions regarding constitutional unamendability, and explains its theoretical and judicial origins, and the arguments against constitutional unamendability. Then, it conceptualises the most common justification of unamendability as ‘the organic justification’ by drawing on Carl Schmitt’s distinction between the constitution and constitutional laws. The thesis criticises the organic justification for its reliance on the idea of constituent power and for indifference to the substantive constitutional content protected by unamendability. The thesis then advances the idea of ‘evaluative constitutional unamendability’. It does so by drawing on Lon Fuller’s distinction of the morality of aspiration and the morality of duty, his idea of the purposefulness of the legal enterprise, and John Finnis’s methodology of attention to evaluation in description. The thesis presents constitutionality as a quality and conceptualises constitutional unamendability as constitutionalism’s morality of duty. The thesis also introduces a case study on Turkey. It studies the birth and entrenchment of the core values of the Turkish constitution, and how they have become the norms of reference in assessing the constitutionality of constitutional amendments. The thesis argues that the Turkish Constitutional Court has adopted the organic justification in its conceptualisation of constitutional unamendability and in its interpretation of its authority over constitutional amendments. It also hypothesises that the Turkish Constitutional Court could have struck down the 2017 constitutional amendment from the perspective of evaluative constitutional unamendability.
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Thomson, Stephen. "The constitutional basis of judicial review in Scotland." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25785.
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The thesis examines the constitutional position of the Court of Session's supervisory jurisdiction. It begins by emphasising the methodological and substantive importance of the historicality and traditionality of law. It then provides a detailed historical account of the emergence of the Court's supervisory jurisdiction, from its inheritance of supervisory functions from emanations of the King's Council to the present-day law of judicial review. Throughout, emphasis is placed on the Court's strong sense of self-orientation in the wider legal and constitutional order, and the extent to which it defined its own supervisory jurisdiction. The court was a powerful constitutional actor and played a strong role in the increasing centralisation and systematisation of the legal order, expanding its supervisory purview through a powerful triumvirate of remedies (advocation, suspension and reduction) and a comprehensive approach to the supervision of a wide range of bodies. The thesis then frames tensions between Parliament and the Court in the context of judicial review of ouster clauses, chosen as a point of heightened inter-institutional tension. This is demonstrated to be an area in which divergent visions of the constitution are evident – Parliament regarding itself as entitled to oust the jurisdiction of the Court to judicially review, and the Court regarding itself as entitled to examine and pronounce on the extent of ouster, including its limitation or exclusion. In attempting to conciliate these divergent constitutional worldviews, the thesis rejects a “last word” approach which prevails in the English judicial review literature. It considers (and rejects), as alternatives, dialogue theories and functional departmentalism. The thesis then advances constitutional narratology as its preferred analytical framework for the accommodation of those inter-institutional tensions, and conciliation of their divergent worldviews. The Court's performance of a constitutional-narratological function facilitates the integration, conciliation and synthesis of legal norms with an existing law and legal system; weaves and coagulates multifarious legal norms into a unified and univocal body of norms; and executes a chronicling, expository and explanatory storytelling function which sets a legally-authoritative narrative to the law. In doing so, the Court performs a distinctive and indispensable constitutional function incapable of fulfilment by Parliament. It is argued that traditionality and functional necessity provide the legal-systemic legitimation for the Court's performance of the constitutional-narratological function. Finally, the thesis considers the institutional specificity of the function, concluding that it is the function, rather than the institution, that is indispensable. However, neither the advent of the Upper Tribunal nor the U.K. Supreme Court suggest at this stage that the Court's performance of that function is waning.
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Shackleford, Caroline. "Developing South African constitutional law : a joint enterprise." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.432169.
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PINTO, JOSE GUILHERME BERMAN CORREA. "COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND WEAK-FORM JUDICIAL REVIEW." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2013. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=22217@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO<br>COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR<br>Até os anos 1980, tratar de controle de constitucionalidade no âmbito do
direito comparado significava ignorar a prática constitucional desenvolvida em
boa parte dos países da família da common law. Isso porque o Reino Unido,
juntamente com algumas de suas ex-colônias (como Canadá, Nova Zelândia e
Austrália, além de Israel, cujo território fora um protetorado inglês antes de se
tornar um Estado independente), apegados ao dogma da soberania do Parlamento,
resistiam em reconhecer a juízes não eleitos competência para invalidar atos
emanados dos legítimos representantes do povo. O cenário começa a mudar com a
aprovação da Carta de Direitos e Liberdades canadense, em 1982. Nesta ocasião,
os direitos fundamentais foram recolhidos em um documento jurídico dotado de
supremacia e rigidez, tendo sido facultado a juízes e tribunais invalidar normas
que não os respeitassem. Mas, para conciliar a nova prática com a tradição
constitucional habituada à supremacia do Parlamento, alguns arranjos foram
feitos, de forma a permitir que a última palavra em matéria de interpretação de
direitos constitucionalmente protegidos permanecesse com o legislador. Surgiu,
assim, um novo modelo de controle de constitucionalidade, no qual o judiciário
possui um papel importante, mas não determinante, na proteção a direitos
fundamentais. Este modelo, aqui chamado de controle fraco de
constitucionalidade, serviu de inspiração para que o próprio Reino Unido e outras
de suas ex-colônias adotassem alguma forma de judicial review entre os anos que
marcaram a virada do século XX para o XXI. Nesta tese, pretende-se apresentar as
características desse novo modelo, contrapondo-o ao modelo tradicional (forte) de
controle de constitucionalidade e, ao final, fazer reflexões sobre a possível recepção do novo sistema em países integrantes da família romano-germânica.<br>By the 1980s, to approach judicial review in the context of comparative law
meant to ignore the constitutional practice developed in a number of members
within the common-law family of nations. This happened because the United
Kingdom, along with some of her former colonies (such as Canada, New Zealand
and Australia, besides Israel, whose territory had been an English protectorate
before becoming an independent state), attached to the principle of Parliament s
sovereignty, resisted the endowment of unelected judges with the power to
invalidate acts performed by the people s legitimate representatives. The scenario
began to change with the adoption of the Canadian Charter of Rights and
Freedoms in 1982. On that occasion, fundamental rights were put into a legal
document tagged with supremacy and rigidity; judges and courts having been
authorized to invalidate norms that clearly did not respect such rights. However,
to accommodate the new practice without sacrificing the constitutional tradition
more accustomed to the sovereignty of Parliament, some arrangements were made
in order to allow that the last word on the interpretation of constitutionallyprotected
rights would remain with the legislator. Thus a new pattern of judicial
review appeared in which the Judiciary plays a significant, but not decisive role in
protecting fundamental rights. This pattern, herein called weak-form judicial
review, inspired the UK herself and other former colonies to adopt some form of
judicial review, in the years that marked the turn of the 20th century to the 21st.
The present paper intends to present the characteristics of this new pattern,
comparing it to the traditional (strong) judicial review pattern, and it eventually
elaborates on the possible receptivity to the new system by member countries of
the civil law family of nations.
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Reale, Carla Maria. "(In)visible Bodies: Disability, Sexuality and Constitutional Law." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11572/255408.
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This study aims to investigate the field where law, sexuality and disability meet, with a particular focus on constitutional law. Through the use of comparative law and an interdisciplinary approach, the study will try to understand whether the law might have a role in overcoming social barriers affecting people with disabilities in the sphere of sexuality, and which are the criteria the State should follow when intervening in this complex field.
Drawing on different notions of disability, we will sketch how law itself is slowly enacting a paradigm shift in disability law, while leaving outside some of the ultimate inquiries elaborated by disability theorists.
It is the case of the issue of sexuality, which still remains a "silenced discourse" both on the international and domestic level. In spite of its relevant legal implications (e.g. forced sterilization and legal denial of sexual agency) and recent efforts to secure its negative aspects, the right to sexuality for people with disabilities has not been the object of positive measures, with few exceptions (e.g. Denmark).
One of the most debated instruments in this field is currently sexual assistance: a controversial praxis, even in its definition and boundaries. It was observed, both at the domestic level and by comparative analysis, that the legal status and the factual development of this tool is strictly linked to the regulation on sex working. An alternative solution, namely framing sexual assistance as a form of personal assistance in Italy, will be theorized.
Sexual assistance, however, is condemned to be ineffective if not surrounded by other tools (such as inclusive sexual education, sexual counselling etc.) aimed at fostering self-determination in the sexual sphere for people with disabilities. These policies need to be developed down the constitutional path already traced by the jurisprudence, starting from the experience and questions of people with disabilities and using flexible sources of law rather than hard law. In this way law could contribute to the social change needed to dismantle social barriers and discrimination experienced by people with disabilities in the field of sexuality and grant them full participation in all areas of life
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Reale, Carla Maria. "(In)visible Bodies: Disability, Sexuality and Constitutional Law." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11572/255408.
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This study aims to investigate the field where law, sexuality and disability meet, with a particular focus on constitutional law. Through the use of comparative law and an interdisciplinary approach, the study will try to understand whether the law might have a role in overcoming social barriers affecting people with disabilities in the sphere of sexuality, and which are the criteria the State should follow when intervening in this complex field.
Drawing on different notions of disability, we will sketch how law itself is slowly enacting a paradigm shift in disability law, while leaving outside some of the ultimate inquiries elaborated by disability theorists.
It is the case of the issue of sexuality, which still remains a "silenced discourse" both on the international and domestic level. In spite of its relevant legal implications (e.g. forced sterilization and legal denial of sexual agency) and recent efforts to secure its negative aspects, the right to sexuality for people with disabilities has not been the object of positive measures, with few exceptions (e.g. Denmark).
One of the most debated instruments in this field is currently sexual assistance: a controversial praxis, even in its definition and boundaries. It was observed, both at the domestic level and by comparative analysis, that the legal status and the factual development of this tool is strictly linked to the regulation on sex working. An alternative solution, namely framing sexual assistance as a form of personal assistance in Italy, will be theorized.
Sexual assistance, however, is condemned to be ineffective if not surrounded by other tools (such as inclusive sexual education, sexual counselling etc.) aimed at fostering self-determination in the sexual sphere for people with disabilities. These policies need to be developed down the constitutional path already traced by the jurisprudence, starting from the experience and questions of people with disabilities and using flexible sources of law rather than hard law. In this way law could contribute to the social change needed to dismantle social barriers and discrimination experienced by people with disabilities in the field of sexuality and grant them full participation in all areas of life
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Roznai, Yaniv. "Unconstitutional constitutional amendments : a study of the nature and limits of constitutional amendment powers." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2014. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/915/.
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This research project stems from a single puzzle: how can constitutional amendments be unconstitutional? Adopting a combination of theoretical and comparative enquiries, this thesis establishes the nature and scope of constitutional amendment powers by focusing on the question of substantive limitations on the amendment power, looking at both their prevalence in practice and the conceptual coherence of the very idea of limitations to amendment powers. The thesis is composed of three parts. The first part is comparative. It examines substantive explicit and implicit limitations on constitutional amendment powers through manifold descriptions of a similar constitutional phenomenon across countries, demonstrating a comprehensive pattern of a constitutional behaviour. This process is theory-driven, and the second part of the thesis constructs a general theory of unamendability, which explains the nature and scope of amendment powers. The third part explains how judicial review of amendments is to be conceived in light of the theory of unamendability, and further assesses the possible objections to the theory of unamendability. The theory of unamendability identifies and develops a middle ground between constituent power and pure constituted power, a middle ground that is suggested by the French literature on ‘derived constituent power’. Undergirding the discussion, therefore, is a simple yet fundamental distinction between primary constituent (constitution-making) power and secondary constituent (constitution-amending) power. This distinction, understood in terms of an act of delegation of powers, enables the construction of a theory of the limited (explicitly or implicitly) scope of secondary constituent powers. This distinction is supplemented by a further one, between various shades of secondary constituent powers along a ‘spectrum’, a theoretical construct that links amendment procedures to limitations on amendment powers. The theory of unamendability explicates the limited nature of amendment powers and the practice of judicial review of amendments, thus clarifying the puzzle of unconstitutional constitutional amendments.
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Seay, Stephen Heywood. "The transformation of the American Constitution." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1990. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/576.
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Preibusch, Sophie Charlotte. "Verfassungsentwicklungen im Reichsland Elsass-Lothringen 1871-1918 : Integration durch Verfassungsrecht? /." Berlin : BWV, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2006. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=016543635&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Bobić, Ana. "The jurisprudence of constitutional conflict in the European Union." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:11f62d7d-3eba-43de-8d41-144ca733b1c0.
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The aim of the thesis is to address the jurisprudence of constitutional conflict between the Court of Justice and national courts with constitutional jurisdiction. It seeks to determine how the principle of primacy of EU law works in reality and whether the jurisprudence of the courts under analysis supports this concept. In so doing, the goal is to determine if the theory of constitutional pluralism can explain and guide the application of the principle of primacy of EU law in the jurisprudence of constitutional conflict. The analysis has been carried out on two levels. First, by exploring sovereignty claims by the courts under analysis, as well as reconciliatory vocabulary they employ to manage and contain constitutional conflict. Second, by further studying the three areas of constitutional conflict - ultra vires review, identity review, and fundamental rights review - to provide more nuance in the analysis of the way the Court of Justice has expanded the self-referential system of the Treaties; the different limits that constitutional adjudicators have placed on the principle of primacy as a result; and what possible solutions they envisage in the event of a constitutional conflict. All the courts under analysis have employed the vocabulary of mutual respect and self-restraint as principles guiding the resolution of constitutional conflict. Constitutional conflict is managed through incremental and permanent contestation and accommodation of their opposing claims to sovereignty (the auto-correct function of constitutional pluralism) that results in the uniform interpretation and application of Union law, but keeping in line with conferral as its defining principle. The analysis demonstrated the existence of a heterarchical constellation - the potential of all the courts involved for being ranked in a number of different ways at different times - grounded in mutual respect and self-restraint.
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Siphuma, Nzumbululo Silas. "The lessor’s tacit hypothec : a constitutional analysis." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/85835.
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Thesis (LLM)--Stellenbosch University, 2013.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The lessor's tacit hypothec improves the chances of the lessor to recover rent in arrears. This real security right arises by operation of law and attaches to the lessee's movable property found on the leased premises when rent is due but not paid. The extension of the lessor‟s tacit hypothec to third parties' property is the remedy's most controversial feature. The extension is supposedly based on one of two theoretical justifications, namely implied consent and the doctrine of estoppel. According to the implied-consent theory, the extension is based on the premise that the third party consented (explicitly or by implication) that his property can serve as security for the payment of the lessee's arrear rent. The basis of the second theory, the doctrine of estoppel, operates as a limitation on the rei vindicatio of the third party. Over the years discourse has shown that there are uncertainties surrounding these justifications. Recent debate has also shown that if constitutionally challenged, the extension of the lessor's tacit hypothec could amount to arbitrary deprivation of third parties' property.
The aim of this thesis is to establish whether and how the existing common law principles that provide for the extension of the lessor's tacit hypothec over property belonging to third parties are affected by section 25(1) of the Constitution. Consequently, the thesis describes, analyses and scrutinises the general principles regulating the lessor's tacit hypothec, and more specifically the extension of the lessor's tacit hypothec to third parties' property, in view of section 25(1) of the Constitution.
Taking into considering the recent statutory protection of third parties' property, the thesis concludes that the extension of the lessor's tacit hypothec does not constitute an arbitrary deprivation of third parties' property because correct application of the common law principles that provide for the extension and the statutory protection that has been introduced to exclude a large number of cases from the reach of the extension adequately protect third parties' property interests. Therefore, the requirements of section 25(1) are satisfied.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die verhuurder se stilswyende hipoteek verbeter sy kanse om agterstallige huur van sy huurder in te vorder. Wanneer die huur opeisbaar word, maar die huurder versuim om tydig te betaal, kom hierdie saaklike sekerheidsreg deur regswerking tot stand en dit dek alle roerende sake wat op die verhuurde perseel gevind word. Die uitbreiding van die stilwyende hipoteek na eiendom wat aan derde partye behoort is die remedie se mees kontroversiële eienskap. Hierdie uitbreiding van die hipoteek se toepassingsveld berus na bewering op een van twee regverdigingsgronde, naamlik die derde se geïmpliseerde toestemming en die leerstuk van estoppel. Volgens die geïmpliseerde toestemming-teorie kan die hipoteek na derdes se bates uitgebrei word op die veronderstelling dat sodanige derde partye toegestem het (uitdruklik of by implikasie) dat hulle eiendom as sekuriteit vir betaling van die huurder se agterstallige huur mag dien. Die tweede teorie steun op die beperking wat die leerstuk van estoppel op die rei vindicatio van die derde party plaas. Oor die jare het debatte aangedui dat daar onsekerhede rondom hierdie regverdigingsgronde bestaan. Onlangse debatte het ook aangetoon dat, indien dit grondwetlik getoets word, die uitbreiding van die hipoteek moontlik mag neerkom op ‟n arbitrêre ontneming van die derdes se eiendom.
Die doel van hierdie tesis is om vas te stel of en hoe die bestaande gemeenregtelike beginsels wat die stilswyende hipoteek na bates van derdes uitbrei deur artikel 25(1) van die Grondwet beïnvloed word. Die tesis bespreek, analiseer en toets gevolglik die algemene beginsels van die verhuurder se stilswyende hipoteek, en meer spesifiek die uitbreiding van die hipoteek na bates wat aan derdes behoort, in die lig van artikel 25(1) van die Grondwet.
Met inagneming van die beskerming wat derde party se eiendom in terme van onlangse wetgewing geniet, bevind die tesis dat die uitgebreide toepassing van die stilswyende hipoteek nie op ʼn arbitrêre ontneming van derde partye se eiendom neerkom nie omdat korrekte toepassing van die gemeenregtelike beginsels wat vir die uitbreiding voorsiening maak, in kombinasie met die wetgewende uitsluiting van ‟n groot aantal sake wat aan derdes behoort, voldoende beskerming aan die belange van derdes verleen. Die vereistes van artikel 25(1) word dus bevredig.
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Lehne, Jens. "Constitutional compliance : a game-theoretic analysis /." Berne : Staempfli [u.a.], 2004. http://www.gbv.de/dms/spk/sbb/recht/toc/522420281.pdf.
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Bose, Feler. "Evolutionary impulses in law." Fairfax, VA : George Mason University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1920/2986.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--George Mason University, 2007.<br>Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Jan. 17, 2008). Thesis directors: Charles K. Rowley, Duncan Black. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Economics. Vita: p. 206. Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-203). Also available in print.
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Middleton, Ben. "Constitutional optimization across executive terrorist treatment strategies." Thesis, University of Sunderland, 2012. http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/3844/.
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This thesis explores the strategies of detention, control and removal that are pursued by the state when the prosecution, surveillance or release of a terrorist suspect are not viable options. The inquiry examines executive practices that have emerged in the legal system of England and Wales, and draws on the experiences of the United States of America in order to identify issues of relevance and concern. Analysis is conducted of the interwoven nexus of constitutional mechanisms that supervise and limit executive action. In accordance with principles of constitutionalism, four constitutional benchmarks are examined. It is suggested that counter-terrorism laws must be sufficiently certain in their scope and application; there should be the provision of both effective legislative and judicial oversight mechanisms; and the human rights doctrine of proportionality is required in order to ensure that the appropriate balance is struck in the dynamic between personal liberty and national security. These benchmarks are applied across the strategies of terrorist detention, control and removal. The investigation makes three overarching and original recommendations. Legislative codification is suggested across a number of areas. It is argued that enhanced legislative oversight mechanisms, in both emergency and non-emergency contexts, should be sought. In addition, ways to enhance the utility of the judicial oversight mechanism should be contemplated. A confluence of these mechanisms is required in order to achieve 'constitutional optimization'. Adherence to these principles will ensure that a terrorism emergency is subject to strict temporal limits and that exceptional terrorism-related powers do not perpetuate.
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Kellerman, Mikhalien. "The Constitutional Property Clause and Immaterial Property Interests." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/6536.
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Thesis (LLD)--University of Stellenbosch, 2011.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The question that this dissertation addresses is which immaterial property interests may be
recognised and protected under the constitutional property clause and if so, under which
circumstances. The question originated in the First Certification case 1 where the court held
that the constitutional property clause is wide enough to include property interests that
require protection according to international norms. The traditional immaterial property
interests or intellectual property rights (patents, copyright, designs and trademarks) are
protected as property in private law on a sui generis basis. Since it is generally accepted that
the property concept in constitutional law includes at least property rights protected in private
law, it is relatively unproblematic to include intellectual property rights under the
constitutional property clause. In Laugh It Off v SAB International,2 the Constitutional Court
explicitly balanced the right to a trademark with the right to freedom of expression, which is
accepted as authority that at least trademarks may be recognised and protected as
constitutional property. The other intellectual property rights may most likely be recognised
and protected by analogy. Foreign law as well as international law also indicates that
intellectual property should be recognised and protected as constitutional property. However,
there are other, unconventional immaterial property interests that are not protected as
property in private law. Some are protected in private law, but not as property; others
originate in public law; and yet others are not protected yet at all. In terms of the
Constitution, South African courts may consider foreign law, but must consider international
law. This dissertation determines when these interests may be protected as constitutional
property by reference to foreign cases from German, American, Australian and Irish law;
regional international law, namely European Union cases; and international law. The
conclusion is that unconventional immaterial property interests may generally be protected if
they are vested and acquired in terms of normal law, have patrimonial value and serve the
general purpose of constitutional property protection. Property theories are also useful to
determine when immaterial property interests deserve constitutional protection, although
other theories may be more useful for some of the unconventional interests. The German
scaling approach and the balancing of competing interests is a useful approach for South
African courts to help determine the appropriate level of protection for specific immaterial
property interests without excluding some at the outset.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die vraag waarmee hierdie verhandeling handel is of belange in immateriële goedere erken
en beskerm kan word in terme van die grondwetlike eiendomsklousule en indien wel, onder
watter omstandighede. Die vraag het sy ontstaan in die First Certification saak,3 waar die
Grondwetlike Hof beslis het dat die eiendomsklousule se omvang wyd genoeg is om belange
in eiendom in te sluit wat volgens internasionale norme beskerming verg. Sekere regte in
immateriële goedere word op ’n sui generis basis in die privaatreg beskerm, naamlik die regte
in tradisionele immaterieelgoederereg kategorieë of intellektuele eiendom (patente, kopiereg,
ontwerpe en handelsmerke). Dit is 'n algemene beginsel van grondwetlike eiendomsreg dat
die konsep van eiendom minstens belange insluit wat as eiendom in die privaatreg beskerm
word. In Laugh It Off v SAB International4 het die Grondwetlike Hof 'n handelsmerkreg
opgeweeg teen die reg op vryheid van uitdrukking en hierdeur implisiet erken dat minstens
handelsmerke en dalk ook ander intellektuele eindemsregte deur die eiendomsklousule erken
en beskerm kan word. Buitelandse reg sowel as internasionale reg dui aan dat intellektuele
eiendom grondwetlike beskerming behoort te ontvang. Buiten hierdie belange is daar ook
immaterieelgoederereg belange wat nie onder eiendomsreg beskerm word in die privaatreg
nie. Sommige van hierdie belange word wel in die privaatreg beskerm, maar dan onder ander
areas van die reg as eiendom; ander het hul oorsprong in die publiekreg; en die res word tans
glad nie beskerm nie. Die Grondwet bepaal dat howe buitelandse reg in ag kan neem en dat
hulle internasionale reg moet oorweeg. Die verhandeling se vraag word beantwoord met
verwysing na sake uit die Duitse, Amerikaanse, Australiese en Ierse grondwetlike reg;
streeks-internasionale reg van die Europese Unie; en internasionale reg. Die onkonvensionele
immaterieelgoederereg belange kan oor die algemeen beskerm word as eiendom indien daar
'n gevestigde reg is, die reg in terme van gewone reg verkry is en die belang die algemene
oogmerke van die grondwetlike klousule bevorder. Die teorieë oor die beskerming van
eiendom is van nut om te bepaal watter belange beskerm kan word, alhoewel sekere
onkonvensionele belange beter geregverdig kan word deur ander tipes teorieë. Die Duitse
metode om belange op te weeg kan van besonderse nut wees vir Suid Afrikaanse howe om te
bepaal watter vlak van beskerming spesifieke belange in immaterieelgoedere behoort te
geniet.
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Stanic, Adjacotan Dossou Bernard. "La licéité en droit constitutionnel." Thesis, Paris 1, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA01D005.
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Bien que constituant une notion a priori étrangère au droit, la licéité imprègne le discours juridique. Cette présence ostensible est caractéristique de l'influence originelle de cette notion, sous-jacente au droit. La propension normative de la licéité place celle-ci à la source de tout ordre juridique. La licéité, en raison de son empreinte axiologique, entretient avec le droit une relation dialectique. Elle participe à la formulation de la norme juridique, inspire ses prescriptions, guide son application au nom de la fondamentalité des valeurs et principes qu'une société entend préserver de toute altération. Corrélativement, le droit, notamment le droit constitutionnel contemporain, par le projet normatif qu'il formule et qui se concrétise dans les constructions jurisprudentielles, concourt au repérage de la licéité. En tant qu'une notion au caractère fuyant, la licéité ne se laisse pas enserrer dans les termes figés de la règle de droit. Elle est inspiratrice dans les phases de formation des actes normatifs ainsi qu'au moment de leur application. Sortie de son champs classique de systématisation, cette notion, sur la base de son potentiel moral, a été introduite dans le milieu constitutionnel. De toute évidence, son caractère métajuridique constitue un référant utile à la découverte de nouveaux horizons du néoconstitutionnalisme. Sollicitée pour apprécier l'adéquation de la règle de droit aux valeurs et principes portées par les nombreuses Constitutions modernes, la licéité marque les limites infranchissables opposables aux pouvoirs publics dans un ordre constitutionnel démocratique. Le but que s'est assigné cette étude, c'est de s'appuyer sur une notion omniprésente au sein du droit, et qui par ailleurs s'y révèle comme une source de moralisation des actes et des comportements. Au-delà de tout, le droit constitutionnel, tant normativement que jurisprudentiellement, reçoit et consigne les exigences axiologiques par lesquelles se définit la notion de licéité<br>Although constituting a concept a priori and foreign to the law, licitness permeates the legal discourse. This conspicuous presence is characteristic of the original influence of this notion, wich underlies the law. The normative propensity of licitness places it at the source of any legal order. Licitness, because of its axiological imprint, maintains a dialectic relationship with the law. It participates to the formulation of the legal norm, inspires its prescriptions, and guides its application in the name of the fundamental values and principles a society intends to preserve from any alteration. Correlatively, the law, in particular, the contempory constitutional law, through the normative project wich it formulate and wich is concretized in the jurisprudential constructions, contributes to the identification of the licitness. As a notion with a fleeting character, lawfulness cannot be buried in a fixed termes of the rule of law. It is inspiring in the phases of formation of normative acts as well as at the time of their application. Out of this classical field of systematization, this notion, on the basis of its moral potential, has been introduced in the constitutional field. Clearly, its metajuridic character is a useful reference for discovering the new horizons of neo-constitutionalism. Usually licitness is referred to, to appreciate the adequacy of the rule of law to the values and the principles of the many modern Constitutions ; though it is marked by impassable limits opposable to the public authorities in a democratic constitutional order. The goal of this study rely on omnipresent of the notion in the law, and wich has presented itself as a source of moralization of acts and behaviors. Beyond the whole, constitutional law, based on his normative and jurisprudential aspect, receives and transmits the axiological requirement by definition of the notion of licitness
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Cassidy, Elizabeth Ann Kandravy. "A delicate balance : equality, non-discrimination and affirmative action in Namibian constitutional law, as compared to South African and U.S. constitutional law." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52630.
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Thesis (LLM)--University of Stellenbosch, 2002.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis examines the constitutional law of equality, non-discrimination and
affirmative action in Namibia, and compares it to that of South Africa and the United
States. Namibian judicial interpretation in these areas seeks to balance the need to
safeguard the internationally recognized human rights that the Namibian Constitution
guarantees with the need to ensure that Namibian constitutional law is seen as
grounded in Namibia's historical experience and culture. This latter imperative
derives from the Namibian Constitution's origins in an international negotiation
process, which has led to some popular criticism of the Constitution as foreign and
imposed. As a result, Namibian courts have been careful to ensure that reliance on
foreign precedent (where there is no local authority) does not diminish the
Constitution's unique character and its suitability to the Namibian situation. To that
end, the Namibian courts have given great weight to the role of current Namibian
societal values in constitutional interpretation. In the areas of equality, nondiscrimination
and affirmative action, Namibian courts have generally followed the
South African approach, except with respect to discrimination on the basis of sexual
orientation. The author concludes that the adoption of the South African approach
generally makes sense for Namibia, and specifically criticizes the Namibian courts'
approach to sexual orientation discrimination.
The statutes enacted in Namibia to carry out the Constitution's equality and nondiscrimination
guarantees, including in the area of affirmative action, are also
considered. While these statutes have not yet been subject to judicial interpretation, it
seems likely that future cases presenting issues arising under these statutes will
necessitate the same balancing referred to above.
The thesis begins with an overview of each Constitution's textual treatment of
equality, non-discrimination and affirmative action, and a discussion comparing the
background and basic structure of the three Constitutions. It then focuses on the
judicial and legislative interpretation of the concepts of equality and nondiscrimination
in Namibia, as compared to that in South Africa and the US.
Following that, the author discusses the judicial and legislative interpretation of the
concept of affirmative action in Namibia, also as compared to that in South Africa and
the United States. The thesis ends with the author's conclusions and some predictions
as to how the Namibian courts might rule on certain issues that seem likely to arise in
these areas in the future.<br>LLM Tesis deur Elizabeth Kandravy Cassidy, '''n Delikate Balans: Gelykheid,
nie-diskrimnasie en gelykberegtiging in Namibiese staatsreg - 'n vergelykende
studie met Suid-Afrikaanse en Amerikaanse Staatsreg" (2002)
Hierdie tesis ondersoek die staatsregtelike beskerming van gelykheid, niediskriminasie
en gelykberegtiging in Namibië in 'n regsvergelykende studie van Suid-
Afrikaanse en Amerikaanse staatsreg. Namibiese geregtelike interpretasie op hierdie
gebied poog om 'n balans te handhaaf tussen die behoefte om internasionaal erkende
menseregte deur die Namibiese grondwet te waarborg en die behoefte om te verseker
dat die grondslag van die Namibiese staatsreg soos gevestig in sy geskiedenis en
kultuur behoue bly. Laasgenoemde beweegrede spruit voort uit die feit dat die
Namibiese grondwet sy oorsprong te danke het aan 'n internasionale
onderhandelingsproses, wat gelei het tot die algemene siening dat die grondwet
vreemd is en nie uit eie geledere afgedwing word nie. Gevolglik steun die Namibiese
howe met omsigtigheid op buitelandse presedente (waar daar geen plaaslike gesag is
nie) met die oog op behoud van die grondwet se unieke karakter en gepastheid binne
die Namibiese konteks. Met hierdie doel voor oë, plaas die Namibiese howe in
grondwetlike interpretasie, groter klem op die rol van kontemporêre
gemeenskapswaardes in Namibië. Op die gebied van gelykheid, nie-diskriminasie en
gelykberegtiging volg die Namibiese howe oor die algemeen die Suid-Afrikaanse
benadering, behalwe in die geval van diskriminasie op grond van seksuele oriëntasie.
Die skrywer kom tot die gevolgtrekking dat die toepassing van die Suid-Afrikaanse
benadering in die algemeen sinvol is binne die Namibiese konteks and kritiseer die
Namibiese howe se benadering tot diskriminasie op grond van seksuele orientasie.
Die wetgewing wat in Namibië uitgevaardig is om die grondwetlik gewaarborgde
gelykheid en nie-diskriminasie, insluitend gelykberegtiging te verseker word ook
ondersoek. Alhoewel hierdie wetgewing nog nie aan geregtelike interpretasie
onderwerp is nie, blyk dit dat toekomstige uitsprake waar die wetgewing ter sprake
kom ook die balansering van hierdie belange sal noodsaak.
Die tesis begin met 'n oorsigtelike bespreking van die benadering tot gelykheid, niediskriminasie
en gelykberegtiging van die onderskeie grondwette en 'n
regsvergelykende bespreking van die agtergrond en basiese struktuur van die drie
grondwette. Vervolgens fokus die tesis op die geregtelike interpretasie van die
beginsels van gelykheid en nie-diskriminasie in Namibië, in vergelyking met Suid-
Afrika en die Verenigde State. Daarna bepreek die skrywer die geregtelike en
wetgewende interpretasie van die beginsel van gelykgeregtiging in Namibië, ook in 'n
regsvergelyking met die Suid-Afrikaanse en Amerikaanse posisie. Die tesis sluit af
met die skrywer se gevolgtrekkings en 'n paar voorspellings oor die moontlike
benadering wat die Namibiese howe in die toekoms sal volg tot sekere regskwessies
wat in hierdie vakgebied kan voorkom.
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Sono, Nhlanhla Lucky. "Development of the law regarding inaedificatio : a constitutional analysis." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/95856.
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Thesis (LLM)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Inaedificatio entails that movables that have been permanently attached to land through building cease to exist as independent things and become part of the land. Courts have adopted different approaches over time to investigate whether or not inaedificatio had occurred. It is sometimes said that courts have moved away from the so-called traditional approach, which focused on the objective factors, to the so-called new approach, which places more emphasis on the subjective intention of the owner of the movables.
This thesis analyses the applicable case law and concludes that there is inadequate proof of such a shift since both older cases associated with the traditional approach and later cases associated with the new approach emphasise the intention of the owner of the movables to establish whether accession had taken place. However, the case law does allow for a cautious different conclusion, namely that a certain line of both older and new cases emphasise the owner of the movable’s intention for commercial policy reasons, specifically to protect ownership of the movables in cases where ownership had been reserved in a credit sale contract.
Constitutional analysis of these conclusions in view of the FNB methodology indicates that the courts’ decision to hold that accession had in fact occurred in cases that do involve permanent attachment of movables to land will generally establish deprivation of property for purposes of section 25(1) of the Constitution, but such deprivation would generally not be arbitrary since there would be sufficient reason for it. However, in cases where the courts decide that there was no accession because ownership of the movables had been reserved subject to a credit sale agreement, there is no deprivation of property because the landowner, who is the only one who might complain about the decision, could not prove a property interest for purposes of section 25(1). Moreover, the courts’ decision that accession had either occurred or not does not amount to expropriation under section 25(2) of the Constitution because there is no common law authority for expropriation.
Therefore, the principal conclusion of the thesis is that the courts’ decision that accession had either occurred or not would generally be in line with the property clause of the Constitution.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Inaedificatio behels dat roerende sake wat permanent deur bebouing aan grond vasgeheg is ophou bestaan as selfstandige sake en deel word van die grond. Die howe het in die verlede verskillende benaderings gevolg in hulle pogings om vas te stel of inaedificatio plaasgevind het. Daar word soms beweer dat die howe wegbeweeg het van die sogenaamde tradisionele benadering, wat op die objektiewe faktore gefokus het, na die sogenaamde nuwe benadering waarin die klem op die eienaar van die roerende goed se bedoeling val.
Hierdie verhandeling analiseer die toepaslike regspraak en kom tot die gevolgtrekking dat daar onvoldoende bewys van so ‘n verskuiwing bestaan, aangesien sowel ouer sake wat met die tradisionele benadering geassosieer word en later regspraak wat die nuwe benadering sou volg klem op die eienaar van die roerende sake se bedoeling plaas. Die regspraak bied wel bewyse vir ‘n versigtige gevolgtrekking op ‘n ander punt, naamlik dat bepaalde ouer en later sake die eienaar van die roerende goed se bedoeling vir kommersiële beleidsredes beklemtoon, spesifiek in gevalle waar eiendomsreg in ‘n kredietkoop voorbehou is. Grondwetlike analise van hierdie gevolgtrekkings in die lig van die FNB-metodologie suggereer dat die howe se beslissing dat aanhegting wel plaasgevind het in gevalle waar permanente aanhegting van roerende goed aan grond ter sprake was oor die algemeen ‘n ontneming van eiendom vir doeleindes van artikel 25(1) van die Grondwet sal daarstel, maar aangesien daar oor die algemeen voldoende rede vir die ontneming is sal dit nie arbitrêr wees nie. Aan die ander kant, waar die howe beslis dat daar geen aanhegting was nie omdat eiendomsreg van die roerende goed vir sekerheid onderhewig aan ‘n kredietkoop voorbehou is, is daar geen ontneming van eiendom nie omdat die grondeienaar, die enigste party wat beswaar teen die beslissing mag maak, nie ‘n eiendomsbelang vir doeleindes van artikel 25(1) kan bewys nie. Verder stel die howe se beslissing dat aanhegting óf plaasgevind het al dan nie in elk geval geen onteiening daar nie aangesien daar geen magtiging vir onteiening in die gemenereg bestaan nie.
Die gevolgtrekking van die verhandeling is dat die howe se beslissing dat aanhegting óf plaasgevind het al dan nie oor die algemeen nie in stryd met die eiendomsbepaling in die Grondwet sal wees nie.
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Elliot, Mark Christopher. "The constitutional legitimacy of judicial review in English law." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.413114.
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Nijsten, Machteld. "Abortion and constitutional law : a comparative European-American study /." Florence : European university institute, 1990. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35732666z.
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Dordelli, Rosales Nelson Richard. "Constitutional Jurisprudence in the Supreme Court of Venezuela." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26250.
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The prime focus of this dissertation consists in exploring constitutional jurisprudence in the Supreme Court of Venezuela over the last five decades, making use of arguments drawn from Venezuelan history and the existing jurisprudential approaches to theories about the general character of law as integrated in numerous public law cases. This study offers a new approach, one that focuses on ensuring that fundamental constitutional principles are aligned with the concrete objectives (purposes) that the Constitution sets out to achieve. This account is developed through a theoretical framework comprising of: I. A historical overview from independence (1811) to democratization (1947 and beyond), emphasizing the fundamentals of the Constitutions of 1961 and 1999, to portray a vivid and accurate picture of the origins of Venezuela’s constitutional democracy; II. A survey, of constitutional cases that illustrates the evolution of the Venezuelan constitutional jurisprudence under the overt or subliminal use of certain default legal theories, namely, legal positivism in the era of the 1961 Constitution, legal realism and Ronald Dworkin’s adjudication theory in the era of the 1999 Constitution III. An insightful discussion of the main arguments of Ronald Dworkin’s principled theory and Justice Aharon Barak’s purposive theory, in an effort to build theorectical support, which links the various points of their respective theories in order to articulate one in the context of the Venezuelan jurisprudence; IV An original attempt to build a theoretical approach based on the Venezuelan constitutional system, history, culture, and identity to bring together the priorities of formalism, particularly the written principles of the Constitution and the priorities of functionalism and social welfare. This is to ensure that the Supreme Court decides accordingly with the constitutional principles as much as their underlying purposes to provide solutions to legal conundrums.
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Tang, Kwok-wah Danny. "The impact of the Basic Law to the future of Hong Kong." Thesis, Hong Kong : School of Professional and Continuing Education, University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/HKUTO/record/B36195145.
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Tew, Yvonne Mei-Ni. "Renegotiating constitutional adjudication : a minimum core approach for Malaysia and Singapore." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.608233.
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Reichman, Amnon. "Taking constitutional structures seriously : a Canadian case study /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ53775.pdf.
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Meskin, Shayan. "Shelby County: Voting Discrimination and its Constitutional Considerations." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1725.
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Racism has been perpetuated in America since slavery. Central to this notion is the United States’ history of racism perpetuated via its political system which subjected minorities - African-Americans in particular - to the oppressive wrath of governmental policies for centuries. As the country grew more intolerant of slavery, the Civil War lead to the Reconstruction Amendments which abolished slavery and intended to give African-Americans an opportunity to exercise new civil and political rights. The opponents of Reconstruction, particularly from the Deep South, were ideologically opposed to these changes and sought to encumber blacks by targeting their right to the franchise. Racial discrimination in politics took the guise of literacy tests and other excessive measures. The era of postbellum segregation and racially discriminatory legislation ensured that blacks and other minorities would not be given the equal treatment they had been denied since slavery. Slavery was over, but racism persisted. By the hands of southern state legislatures, discrimination evolved, as African-Americans would face extensive impediments in exercising their right to vote for over a century. But as the mid-20th Century Civil Rights Movement gained steam, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act (VRA) in 1965 with the hope of finally putting an end to this effective discrimination. The most polarizing facet of the VRA was the section 5 “preclearance” provision because it treated states differently; it was buttressed by the section 4 “coverage formula” which designated which states would be subject to this differential treatment; while the section 3 provisions established a constitutional safety valve emboldening the more vulnerable facets of the legislation. The VRA was momentous in reducing voting rights infringement aimed at minorities. Yet today, that legislation is no more. The Court’s decision in Shelby County v. Holder (2013) provides a simplistic appraisal of the VRA. Exhibiting dubious jurisprudence illuminated through examination of an earlier case, Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District No. 1 v. Holder (2009), Robert’s opinion undermines the values personified by the Reconstruction Amendments and leaves the nation’s protection of the franchise more vulnerable to backsliding than it has been for decades.
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Landa, Arroyo César. "Constitutionalization of Peruvian Law." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2013. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/116168.
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Constitutionalizaton of Law’s different areas is a phenomenon gradually more ingrained in our cultural and legal framework. Maybe the best demonstration is the increasingly prominent role of the Constitutional Court (TC) – Constitution’s Supreme Interpreter – in defining and redefining concepts, rights and legal principles touching a range of subjects, from TaxLaw to Human Rights. This is relevant to understand the Law and its current effects whether it is valued positively or negatively.<br>La constitucionalización de las distintas áreas del Derecho es un fenómeno cada vez más arraigado en nuestra cultura y contexto jurídicos. Tal vez la forma más evidente en que se haya manifestado sea el creciente protagonismo del Tribunal Constitucional (TC), supremo intérprete de la Constitución, en la significación y resignificación de conceptos, derechos y principios jurídicos que, a través de sus sentencias, han afectado desde el derecho tributario hasta los derechos humanos. Sea que esto se valore positiva o negativamente, su relevancia para comprender el derecho y sus efectos en la actualidad es innegable.
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Agbo, Ayawa Aménuvévé. "Droit international et règlement des crises constitutionnelles en Afrique noire francophone." Thesis, Lyon 3, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012LYO30040.
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Le droit international intervient dans un contexte de multiplication des crises constitutionnelles auxquelles les mécanismes internes des gestion des crises, n'arrivent pas à trouver de solution. En effet, les constitutions étant directement la cause des crises que connaissent les États africains, elles se trouvent disqualifiées pour jouer leur rôle de règlement de ces crises et d'apaisement de la vie politique. L'intervention de la communauté internationale dans la gestion des crises constitutionnelles trouve ainsi sa justification. L'implication du droit international dans le règlement des crises constitutionnelles prend la forme une assistance constitutionnelle ou d'une assistance à la mise en œuvre du jeu démocratique. L'intervention du droit international dans le domaine constitutionnel, normalement une compétence réservé aux États, emporte des conséquences sur le contenu des constitutions. Celles-ci désormais, s'alignent sur les standards internationaux de démocratie, de pluralisme politique, d’État de droit et de protection des droits et des libertés fondamentales. L'internationalisation des constitutions en Afrique noire francophone, consécutive au règlement international des crises constitutionnelles, entraîne la formation de nouveaux rapports entre le droit international et le droit constitutionnel. Les constitutions deviennent protectrices des valeurs internationalement reconnues et universalisées, tandis que le droit international s'occupe de gérer non plus seulement les rapports interétatiques mais consacre des normes d'application intraétatique. On assiste ainsi à un renforcement mutuel des deux ordres juridiques. L'efficacité dans la durée du règlement international des crises constitutionnelles en Afrique reste toutefois à améliorer. En effet, les valeurs démocratiques ainsi imposées par le sommet, courent le risque de ne pas correspondre aux aspirations des peuples. Le règlement international se doit de s'appuyer sur les constitutions et de prendre en compte, l'ensemble des mécanismes et techniques institutionnels nationaux, voire traditionnels, de règlement des crises constitutionnelles dans les États d'Afrique noire francophone<br>Constitutional law in French speaking African sub-Saharan countries is progressing under pressure from different elements. In fact, more than twenty years of practice of a new constitutionalism in these states, reveals many lacunas and failures that raised up on the continent, in almost every states, numerous constitutional crisis. Being the factor of these crisis, the constitutions have disqualified themselves to provide solution for the crisis. The intervention of the international community to settle these constitutional crisis, through international law is thus justified. The international settlement of constitutionnal crisis is a political mechanism by which the international community come to backup the constitutional practice in a state, in order to help solving the crisis. This intervention of international law in the area of competence reserved for the states, is based on the principle of the agreement of the legitimate public authorities of the state and it borrows some different forms, especially the constitutional assistance and the democratic assistance. As result, the international settlement of constitutional crisis led to an internationalization of the constitutions of the assisted states. The process of internationalization pass by the definition of the political regime of the states, particularly, the promotion of constitutional states and also by the proclamation and protection of individual rights. But the main question remain to determine the efficiency of the intervention of international law in the settlement of constitutional crisis. The practice of constitutional law in French speaking African sub-Saharan countries can take advantage on the international settlement of constitutionnal crisis, to be improved and become a source of national cohesion
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Clarke, Paul Terence. "Free speech and Canada's public school teachers, an employment law and constitutional law analysis." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq24068.pdf.
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Monge, Morales Gonzalo J. "A look at Constitutional Law through International Law. Interview with Juan José Ruda Santolaria." THĒMIS-Revista de Derecho, 2015. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/109349.
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What is the normative status of a treaty in Peruvian domestic law? What would happen at theinternational level if the Peruvian ConstitutionalCourt declared a treaty to be unconstitutional? How to interpret Peruvian maritime domain, asrecognized in our Constitution, after the ruling of the International Court of Justice on the maritimedifferendum with Chile?These issues don’t only concern Constitutional Law; thus, in this interview, the renowned professor provides us with, from the standpoint of International Law, answers about these and other issues, but he also illustrates us about the implications for Peru of the aforementioned Court’sruling, delivered more than a year ago.<br>¿Cuál es el rango normativo de un tratado en el Derecho interno peruano? ¿Qué ocurriría en el ámbito internacional si el Tribunal Constitucional peruano declarara inconstitucional un tratado?¿Cómo entender el dominio marítimo del Perú, reconocido en nuestra Constitución, luego del fallode la Corte Internacional de Justicia sobre el diferendo marítimo con Chile?Estas cuestiones no pertenecen únicamente al Derecho Constitucional; por ello, en la presente entrevista, el reconocido profesor nos brinda desde el Derecho Internacional respuestas sobre estos y otros temas, así como también nos ilustra acerca de las implicancias para el Perú del mencionado fallode la Corte, a más de un año de haber sido dictado.