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The concept of a Constitution

Conferences

Martin Loughlin : What is constitutionalization ?

SEMINAIRE DE L’INSTITUT MICHEL VILLEY - droit politique - séance du jeudi 14 mai 2009 à 17h00
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Articles

Ran Halévi : Unmaking the old régime constitution

« Pouvoir constituant » is not an invention of the French Revolution, but it is at this moment that it was theorized and connected with the idea of national sovereignty. This could only be achieved by learning from the lessons of the Glorious Revolution in (...)
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Olivier Beaud : The history of the concept of constitution in France

This article aims at assessing the fecondity of « Begriffgeschichte » (history of concepts), and of its major Proponent Reinhardt Koselleck, in the context of constitutional history. As a case study of Begriffgeschischte, it is attempted here to identify (...)
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Carlos-Miguel Pimentel : From the social contract to the supreme norm : the invention of the « pouvoir constituant »

Far from being self-evident, the idea of a constitution was confronted to a major obstacle : the unity of the legislative function, itself deduced from the indivisibility of sovereignty. In the mid-eighteenth century, there developed the idea of the (...)
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Arnaud Le Pillouer : The constitution from review to repeal

When does a constitutional amendment amount to a repeal ? If this ever happens, is there any legitimacy to such an implied repeal ? Such questions, and others, help shed some light on the issue of whether there can be substantive limitations to the power (...)
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Anne Jussiaume : The supreme Court and the constitution in Israel : between activism and judicial self-restraint

In Israel, the constitution is written, yet lacunary and in a permanent process of construction. This makes the role of the supreme Court the more important. Not only has it developed a protection of fundamental rights, despite the lack of a bill of (...)
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Papers

Denis Baranger : The “constitutional law trap”

For quite some time now, constitutional history has become unfashionable, except maybe as a rather secondary branch of political history. Yet reclaiming the historical dimension of constitutional law would be of critical importance in order to solve many (...)
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N°3

Conferences

Martin Loughlin : What is constitutionalization ?

Articles

Ran Halévi : Unmaking the old régime constitution

Olivier Beaud : The history of the concept of constitution in France

Carlos-Miguel Pimentel : From the social contract to the supreme norm : the invention of the « pouvoir constituant »

Arnaud Le Pillouer : The constitution from review to repeal

Anne Jussiaume : The supreme Court and the constitution in Israel : between activism and judicial self-restraint

Varia

David Mongoin : Political and legal variations on voter abstention

Pierre Avril : France : retrieving parliamentary control (after the constitutional reform of 2008)

Gerald L. Neuman : After Guantánamo: Extraterritoriality of Fundamental Rights in U.S. Constitutional Law

Papers

Denis Baranger : The “constitutional law trap”

Dissertations

Vincent Luchez : The parliamentarist trend in the American constitutional debate

David Maslarski : Gaston Jèze’s conception of the State

Book reviews

Augustin Simard : David Dyzenhaus, The Constitution of Law. Legality in a Time of Emergency, Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Pierre-Olivier Caille : S. Pinon, P.-H. Prélot (dir.), Le droit constitutionnel d’Adhémar Esmein, Montchrestien, 2009.

Archives

Aspects des contrats de coalition gouvernementale en Allemagne

Maurice Deslandres : Referendum and popular initiative in Switzerland (1894), text presented by Stéphane Schott