THE JOURNAL OF REGIONAL HISTORY V.4 No.3
Global Constitutionalism: the Theory of the Global Legal Order or a New Political Ideology?
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The idea of the global legal order, accompanying humanity throughout the whole history of its existence, has acquired practical relevance in the recent period as a tool for resolving
the contradictions of globalization: world integration and regional disintegration. The article analyses the results of the international discussion on global constitutionalism; summarizes the
arguments for and against its implementation put forward by international lawyers, constitutionalists, and politicians; reconstructs the strategies of constitutionalization of the world
order. Despite the prevailing descriptive legal trend, the author defends the understanding of global constitutionalism as an ethical minimum, ideology and law policy, designed to ensure the inviolability of the very core of transnational legal guarantees of society in the face of the challenges of its radical transformation.
the contradictions of globalization: world integration and regional disintegration. The article analyses the results of the international discussion on global constitutionalism; summarizes the
arguments for and against its implementation put forward by international lawyers, constitutionalists, and politicians; reconstructs the strategies of constitutionalization of the world
order. Despite the prevailing descriptive legal trend, the author defends the understanding of global constitutionalism as an ethical minimum, ideology and law policy, designed to ensure the inviolability of the very core of transnational legal guarantees of society in the face of the challenges of its radical transformation.
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Belov, M., ed. Global Constitutionalism and Its Challenges to Westphalian Constitutional Law. London: Hart, 2018.
Benhabib, S. “The New Sovereigntism and Transnational Law: Legal Utopianism, Democratic Scepticism and Statist Realism.” Global Constitutionalism, vol. 5, no. 1 (2016): 109–44.
Benvenisti, E. Law of Global Governance. Hague: Hague Academy of International Law, 2014.
Bhandari, S. Global Constitutionalism and the Path of International Law. Brill: Nijhoff, 2016.
Brown, G.W. “The Constitutionalisation of What?” Global Constitutionalism, vol. 1, no. 2 (2012): 201–28.
Byers, M., and G. Nolte, eds. United States Hegemony and the Foundations of International Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Carducci, M. “Cross-constitutionalism and Sustainable Comparison.” In Sociology of Constitutions: A Paradoxical Perspective, edited by A. Febrajo and G. Corsi, 137–65. London: Routledge, 2016.
Choudhry, S., ed. Constitutional Design for Divided Societies: Integration or Accommodation? New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Delpano, R. “Fragmentation and Constitutionalization of International Law. A Theoretical Inquiry.” European Journal of Legal Studies, vol. 6, no. 1 (2013): 67–89.
Diggelmann, O., and T. Altwicker. “Is There Something Like a Constitution of International Law? A Critical Analysis of the Debate on World Constitutionalism.” Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, vol. 68 (2008): 623–50.
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St Petersburg: Alef-Press, 2016. (In Russian)
Dunoff, J., and J.P. Truchtman, eds. Ruling the World? Constitutionalism, International Law and Global Governance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Dunoff, J.L., A. Wiener, M. Kumm, and A.F. Lang. “Hard Times: Progress Narratives, Historical Contingency and the Fate of Global Constitutionalism.” Global Constitutionalism, vol. 4, no. 1 (2015): 1–17.
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Fierke, K.M. “Introduction: Independence, Global Entanglement and the Co-Production of Sovereignty.” Global Constitutionalism, vol. 6, no. 2 (2017): 167–83.
Galligan, D.J., and M. Versteeg, eds. Social and Political Foundations of Constitutionalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
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Habermas, J. The Divided West. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2008.
Halmai, G. Perspectives on Global Constitutionalism: the Use of Foreign and International Law. Hague: Eleven International Publishing, 2014.
Havercroft, J., A. Wiener, M. Kumm, and J. Dunoff. “Editorial. Donald Trump as Global Constitutional Breaching Experiment.” Global Constitutionalism, vol. 7, no. 1 (2018): 1–13.
Hirschl, R. “Opting Out of ‘Global Constitutionalism.’” The Law and Ethics of Human Rights, vol. 12, no. 1 (2018): 1–36.
Hirschl, R. Towards Juristocracy: The Origin and Consequences of the New Constitutionalism. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.
Klabbers, J., A. Peters, and G. Ulfstein, eds. The Constitutionalization of International Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Kleinlein, T. “Between Myths and Norms: Constructivist Constitutionalism and the Potential of Constitutional Principles in International Law.” Nordic Journal of International Law, vol. 81
(2012): 79–132.
Kleinlein, Th., and A. Peters. International Constitutional Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Accessed July 14, 2020.
9780199796953/obo-9780199796953-0039.xml
Kumm, M. “The Cosmopolitan Turn in Constitutionalism: An Integrated Concept of Public Law.” Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, vol. 20, no. 2 (2013): 605–28.
Kumm, M., A.F. Lang, J. Tully, and A. Wiener. “How Large is the World of Global Constitutionalism?” Global Constitutionalism, no. 3 (2014): 1–8.
Lachmayer, K. “Counter-developments to Global Constitutionalism.” In Global Constitutionalism and its Challenges to Westphalian Constitutional Law, edited by M. Belov, 81–102. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2018.
Lang, A.F., and A. Wiener, eds. Handbook on Global Constitutionalism. Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017.
Law, D.S., and Versteeg, M. “The Evolution and Ideology of Global Constitutionalism.” California Law Review, vol. 99, no. 5 (2011): 1163–258.
Maldonado, D.B., ed. Constitutionalism of the Global South. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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Medushevskii, A.N. “Konstitutsiya Interneta: ideya, proekty i perspektivy” [Constitution of Internet: the idea, projects and prospects]. Obshchestvennye nauki i sovremennost', no. 1 (2019): 71–86. (In Russian)
Medushevskii, A.N. “Tendentsii postsovetskikh politicheskikh rezhimov v svete noveishei volny konstitutsionnykh popravok” [Post-soviet political regimes: developing trends in the light of current amendments wave]. Obshchestvennye nauki i sovremennost', no. 2 (2018): 49–65. (In Russian)
Medushevskii, A.N. “Veimarskaya Amerika: politicheskaya diskussiya o prichinakh upadka velikoi demokratii” [Weimar America: a political discussion on the causes of the decline of one
great democracy]. Politiya, no. 3 (94) (2019): 127–60. (In Russian)
Medushevskii, A.N. Politicheskie sochineniya: pravo i vlast' v usloviyakh sotsial'nykh transformatsii [Political writings: law and power in the context of social transformation]. Moscow;
St Petersburg: Tsentr gumanitarnykh initsiativ, 2015. (In Russian)
Moller, K. The Global Model of Constitutional Rights. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Peters, A. “Are We Moving toward the Constitutionalization of the World Community?” In Realizing Utopia: the Future of International Law, edited by A. Cassese, 118–35. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2012.
Peters, A. “Global Constitutionalism.” In Encyclopedia of Political Thought, edited by M. Gibbons, 1484–87. London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.
Peters, A. “The Constitutionalist Reconstruction of International Law: Pros and Cons.” NCCR TRADE working paper 1. Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research, 2006. Accessed July 14, 2020. .
Peters, A. “The Merits of Global Constitutionalism.” Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, vol. 16, no. 2 (2009): 397– 411.
Rosenfeld, M. “Global Constitutionalism. Meaningful or Desirable?” European Journal of International Law, vol. 25, no. 1 (2014): 177–99.
Schwöbel C.E.J. Global Constitutionalism in International Legal Perspective. Leiden; Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publications, 2011.
Schwöbel, C.E.J. “Situating the Debate on Global Constitutionalism.” International Journal of Constitutional Law, vol. 8, no. 3 (2010): 611–35.
Sihvo, O. “Global Constitutionalism and the Idea of Progress.” Helsinki Law Review, vol. 12, no. 1 (2018): 10–34.
Somek, A. The Cosmopolitan Constitution. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Suami, T., M. Kumm, A. Peters, and D. Vanoverbeke, eds. Global Constitutionalism from European and East Asian Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Teitel, R.G. Transitional Justice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Teubner, G. Constitutional Fragments: Societal Constitutionalism and Globalization. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Tsagourias, N., ed. Transnational Constitutionalism: International and European Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Von Bogdandi, A. “Constitutionalism in International Law: Comment on a Proposal from Germany.” Harvard International Law Journal, vol. 47, no. 1 (2006): 223–42.
Wiener, A., A.F. Lang, J. Tully, M.P. Maduro, and M. Kumm. “Global Constitutionalism: Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law.” Global Constitutionalism, no.1 (2012): 1–15.
Xavier, S. False Universalism of Global Governance Theories: Global Constitutionalism, Global Administrative Law, International Criminal Institutions and the Global South. PhD diss., Osgoode Hall Law School, 2015. PhD Dissertations. 20. Accessed July 14, 2020. . ca/phd/20.
Yahyaoui-Krivenko, E. Rethinking Human Rights and Global Constitutionalism. From Inclusion to Belonging. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Belov, M., ed. Global Constitutionalism and Its Challenges to Westphalian Constitutional Law. London: Hart, 2018.
Benhabib, S. “The New Sovereigntism and Transnational Law: Legal Utopianism, Democratic Scepticism and Statist Realism.” Global Constitutionalism, vol. 5, no. 1 (2016): 109–44.
Benvenisti, E. Law of Global Governance. Hague: Hague Academy of International Law, 2014.
Bhandari, S. Global Constitutionalism and the Path of International Law. Brill: Nijhoff, 2016.
Brown, G.W. “The Constitutionalisation of What?” Global Constitutionalism, vol. 1, no. 2 (2012): 201–28.
Byers, M., and G. Nolte, eds. United States Hegemony and the Foundations of International Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Carducci, M. “Cross-constitutionalism and Sustainable Comparison.” In Sociology of Constitutions: A Paradoxical Perspective, edited by A. Febrajo and G. Corsi, 137–65. London: Routledge, 2016.
Choudhry, S., ed. Constitutional Design for Divided Societies: Integration or Accommodation? New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Delpano, R. “Fragmentation and Constitutionalization of International Law. A Theoretical Inquiry.” European Journal of Legal Studies, vol. 6, no. 1 (2013): 67–89.
Diggelmann, O., and T. Altwicker. “Is There Something Like a Constitution of International Law? A Critical Analysis of the Debate on World Constitutionalism.” Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, vol. 68 (2008): 623–50.
Dorskaya, A.A., and S.V. Bochkarev, eds. Mezhdunarodnoe i konstitutsionnoe pravo: problemy vzaimodeistviya [International and constitutional law: problems of interaction].
St Petersburg: Alef-Press, 2016. (In Russian)
Dunoff, J., and J.P. Truchtman, eds. Ruling the World? Constitutionalism, International Law and Global Governance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Dunoff, J.L., A. Wiener, M. Kumm, and A.F. Lang. “Hard Times: Progress Narratives, Historical Contingency and the Fate of Global Constitutionalism.” Global Constitutionalism, vol. 4, no. 1 (2015): 1–17.
Fassbender, B. The United Nations Charter as the Constitution of the International Community. Leiden: Nijhoff, 2009.
Fierke, K.M. “Introduction: Independence, Global Entanglement and the Co-Production of Sovereignty.” Global Constitutionalism, vol. 6, no. 2 (2017): 167–83.
Galligan, D.J., and M. Versteeg, eds. Social and Political Foundations of Constitutionalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Goncharov, V.V. Global'nyi konstitutsionalizm: sotsial'no-filosofskii analiz [Global constitutionalism: a socio-philosophical analysis]. Moscow: Sputnik, 2016. (In Russian)
Habermas, J. The Divided West. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2008.
Halmai, G. Perspectives on Global Constitutionalism: the Use of Foreign and International Law. Hague: Eleven International Publishing, 2014.
Havercroft, J., A. Wiener, M. Kumm, and J. Dunoff. “Editorial. Donald Trump as Global Constitutional Breaching Experiment.” Global Constitutionalism, vol. 7, no. 1 (2018): 1–13.
Hirschl, R. “Opting Out of ‘Global Constitutionalism.’” The Law and Ethics of Human Rights, vol. 12, no. 1 (2018): 1–36.
Hirschl, R. Towards Juristocracy: The Origin and Consequences of the New Constitutionalism. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.
Klabbers, J., A. Peters, and G. Ulfstein, eds. The Constitutionalization of International Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Kleinlein, T. “Between Myths and Norms: Constructivist Constitutionalism and the Potential of Constitutional Principles in International Law.” Nordic Journal of International Law, vol. 81
(2012): 79–132.
Kleinlein, Th., and A. Peters. International Constitutional Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Accessed July 14, 2020.
9780199796953/obo-9780199796953-0039.xml
Kumm, M. “The Cosmopolitan Turn in Constitutionalism: An Integrated Concept of Public Law.” Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, vol. 20, no. 2 (2013): 605–28.
Kumm, M., A.F. Lang, J. Tully, and A. Wiener. “How Large is the World of Global Constitutionalism?” Global Constitutionalism, no. 3 (2014): 1–8.
Lachmayer, K. “Counter-developments to Global Constitutionalism.” In Global Constitutionalism and its Challenges to Westphalian Constitutional Law, edited by M. Belov, 81–102. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2018.
Lang, A.F., and A. Wiener, eds. Handbook on Global Constitutionalism. Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017.
Law, D.S., and Versteeg, M. “The Evolution and Ideology of Global Constitutionalism.” California Law Review, vol. 99, no. 5 (2011): 1163–258.
Maldonado, D.B., ed. Constitutionalism of the Global South. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Medushevskii, A.N. “Konstitutsionnaya retraditsionalizatsiya v Vostochnoi Evrope i Rossii” [Constitutional re-traditionalization in Eastern Europe and Russia]. Sravnitel'noe konstitutsionnoe obozrenie, no. 1 (122) (2018): 13–32. (In Russian)
Medushevskii, A.N. “Konstitutsiya Interneta: ideya, proekty i perspektivy” [Constitution of Internet: the idea, projects and prospects]. Obshchestvennye nauki i sovremennost', no. 1 (2019): 71–86. (In Russian)
Medushevskii, A.N. “Tendentsii postsovetskikh politicheskikh rezhimov v svete noveishei volny konstitutsionnykh popravok” [Post-soviet political regimes: developing trends in the light of current amendments wave]. Obshchestvennye nauki i sovremennost', no. 2 (2018): 49–65. (In Russian)
Medushevskii, A.N. “Veimarskaya Amerika: politicheskaya diskussiya o prichinakh upadka velikoi demokratii” [Weimar America: a political discussion on the causes of the decline of one
great democracy]. Politiya, no. 3 (94) (2019): 127–60. (In Russian)
Medushevskii, A.N. Politicheskie sochineniya: pravo i vlast' v usloviyakh sotsial'nykh transformatsii [Political writings: law and power in the context of social transformation]. Moscow;
St Petersburg: Tsentr gumanitarnykh initsiativ, 2015. (In Russian)
Moller, K. The Global Model of Constitutional Rights. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Peters, A. “Are We Moving toward the Constitutionalization of the World Community?” In Realizing Utopia: the Future of International Law, edited by A. Cassese, 118–35. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2012.
Peters, A. “Global Constitutionalism.” In Encyclopedia of Political Thought, edited by M. Gibbons, 1484–87. London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.
Peters, A. “The Constitutionalist Reconstruction of International Law: Pros and Cons.” NCCR TRADE working paper 1. Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research, 2006. Accessed July 14, 2020. .
Peters, A. “The Merits of Global Constitutionalism.” Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, vol. 16, no. 2 (2009): 397– 411.
Rosenfeld, M. “Global Constitutionalism. Meaningful or Desirable?” European Journal of International Law, vol. 25, no. 1 (2014): 177–99.
Schwöbel C.E.J. Global Constitutionalism in International Legal Perspective. Leiden; Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publications, 2011.
Schwöbel, C.E.J. “Situating the Debate on Global Constitutionalism.” International Journal of Constitutional Law, vol. 8, no. 3 (2010): 611–35.
Sihvo, O. “Global Constitutionalism and the Idea of Progress.” Helsinki Law Review, vol. 12, no. 1 (2018): 10–34.
Somek, A. The Cosmopolitan Constitution. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Suami, T., M. Kumm, A. Peters, and D. Vanoverbeke, eds. Global Constitutionalism from European and East Asian Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Teitel, R.G. Transitional Justice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Teubner, G. Constitutional Fragments: Societal Constitutionalism and Globalization. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Tsagourias, N., ed. Transnational Constitutionalism: International and European Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Von Bogdandi, A. “Constitutionalism in International Law: Comment on a Proposal from Germany.” Harvard International Law Journal, vol. 47, no. 1 (2006): 223–42.
Wiener, A., A.F. Lang, J. Tully, M.P. Maduro, and M. Kumm. “Global Constitutionalism: Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law.” Global Constitutionalism, no.1 (2012): 1–15.
Xavier, S. False Universalism of Global Governance Theories: Global Constitutionalism, Global Administrative Law, International Criminal Institutions and the Global South. PhD diss., Osgoode Hall Law School, 2015. PhD Dissertations. 20. Accessed July 14, 2020. . ca/phd/20.
Yahyaoui-Krivenko, E. Rethinking Human Rights and Global Constitutionalism. From Inclusion to Belonging. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Keywords:
world constitution, global constitutionalism, transnational law,
constitutionalization, integration and fragmentation of international relations, multilevel constitutionalism, regionalization, sovereignty, legitimacy, global governance, world order strategies; ethics, ideology, law policy
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