The Structural Transformation of Public Law
On the Democracy of the European Society
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The Structural Transformation of Public Law / Strukturwandel des öffentlichen Rechts
On the Democracy of the European Society
Many observers criticise the development that public law has taken in Europe since the end of World War II as an alienating juridification. In his new book, Armin von Bogdandy argues for a different interpretation of this process, namely as a structural transformation towards a European democratic society. This narrative allows for a reassessment of important events, judgements, concepts as well as current challenges. Bogdandy also shows how the approach of transformative constitutionalism,...
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Many observers criticise the development that public law has taken in Europe since the end of World War II as an alienating juridification. In his new book, Armin von Bogdandy argues for a different interpretation of this process, namely as a structural transformation towards a European democratic society. This narrative allows for a reassessment of important events, judgements, concepts as well as current challenges. Bogdandy also shows how the approach of transformative constitutionalism, which originated in the Global South, offers a way to counter both authoritarian and hegemonic tendencies in European society and to strengthen its democratic constitutionality.
»The international law study In Whose Name contributes to the theory of global governance with rare analytical clarity. This book will quickly become unavoidable reading. ... Thanks to this work, the cosmopolitical landscape will be accessible for legal lay persons.« Elisabeth von Thadden, DIE ZEIT on In wessen Namen?
»The international law study In Whose Name contributes to the theory of global governance with rare analytical clarity. This book will quickly become unavoidable reading. ... Thanks to this work, the cosmopolitical landscape will be accessible for legal lay persons.« Elisabeth von Thadden, DIE ZEIT on In wessen Namen?
2022, 525 pages
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Armin von Bogdandy
Author
Armin von Bogdandy is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg and Professor at the Goethe-University, Frankfurt. He is President of the OECD Nuclear Energy Tribunal and was a Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (2008-2013). He is Partner Investigator in the Exzellenzcluster "Normative Orders", Frankfurt, and Senior Research Fellow at the PluriCourts Centre for Excellence, Oslo.
Armin von Bogdandy
Author
Armin von Bogdandy is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg and Professor at the...