How large is the world of global constitutionalism?

Abstract

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From Public International to International Public Law: Translating World Public Opinion into International Public Authority

“…However, this strand of constitutionalism rightly stresses the importance for international public law of core principles such as human rights, the rule of law and democratic inclusion. 85 While we share constitutionalism's core intuition about freedom and the concern for core principles, we depart from its more value-laden variants and, more generally, harbour some reservations about the use of the concept of constitution for the international level. Constitutionalism, like constitutionalization, somehow suggests a progression towards a global polity or even federal union that appears problematic.…”

Constitucionalismo cosmopolita = Cosmopolitan constitutionalism

“…El constitucionalismo cosmopolita está densamente cargado de prescripciones, que se caracterizan por el rol central que ocupan los derechos humanos, la democracia y el Estado de Derecho en la motivación del proyecto, en lo que se ha caracterizado como la «trinidad del constitucionalismo global» (Kumm, Lang, Tully, & Wiener, 2014). Aunque el concepto y fundamento de los derechos humanos puedan cambiar, las concepciones de la democracia, o bien la institucionalización de la relación entre estos tres elementos 27 , lo cierto es que la conquista de estos objetivos a nivel global se transforma en la meta del constitucionalismo cosmopolita y a la vez, fundamenta la comprensión de la legitimidad en este modelo.…”

Global public–private partnerships and the new constitutionalism of the refugee regime

“…These approaches take more seriously the question of power in the ‘rule of law’ by de-neutralising legal frameworks and re-orienting inquiry to focus on ‘rule through law’ (Rajkovic 2010). One stream of critical approaches, the Postmodern perspective, employs Foucauldian notions such as the knowledge/power dynamic, positing constitutionalism as a terrain of discursive contests (Lawrence 2013). Rajkovic (2010) extends Foucault’s concept of governmentality to global legal orders, treating global legal and constitutional processes as a rationality of government and technique of power.…”