[SydPhil] NISL EVENING SEMINAR Tuesday 27 August 2013, 5:30PM - 8:00 PM 'The Decline of political constitutionalism

[Martin Krygier]

The Network for Interdisciplinary Studies of Law invites you to attend an evening seminar presented by:


EMILIOS CHRISTODOULIDIS


ON

The decline of political constitutionalism:
critical reflections


Abstract:
A long tradition of political constitutionalism deployed as constitutive of the meaning of the constitutional the distinction between ‘constituent’ and ‘constituted’ power. The articulation in tension of the two poles of this distinction informed the meaning of constitutionalism as holding together the political and the legal, democracy and rights. My intention is to discuss the importance of the dimension of the ‘constituent’ for the institutional achievement that is constitutionalism as well as the effects and the expression of its undercutting (typically the thinking of ‘proportionality’) under conditions of globalisation.




TUESDAY, 27 AUGUST, 2013

Dean’s Board Room, 2nd Floor
UNSW LAW SCHOOL.


DRINKS: 5.30 – 6.00 pm
SEMINAR AND DISCUSSION: 6.00 – 8.00 pm
Would those interested in attending the seminar please let Martin Krygier (m.krygier at unsw.edu.au<mailto:m.krygier at unsw.edu.au>) know ahead of time.


EMILIOS CHRISTODOULIDIS has been Professor of Legal Theory at Glasgow University Law School since 2006. Prior to that he taught at the University of Edinburgh. He holds degrees from the Universities of Athens (LLB) and Edinburgh (LLM, PhD). His interests lie mainly in the area of the philosophy and sociology of law and in constitutional theory.
He is author of many articles on constitutional theory, democratic theory, critical legal theory, and transitional justice, and his book Law and Reflexive Politics won the European Award for Legal Theory in 1996 and the 1998 Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) Prize for 'Outstanding Legal Scholarship'. He was visiting Professor at the European Academy for Legal Theory in Brussels between 1996 and 1998, at the Faculty of Law in Antwerp in 2008, and was a fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Nantes in 2011. In June/July 2002 he gave the seventh series of the KOBE lectures in Japan.  He is editor of the ‘Edinburgh/Glasgow Law and Society series’ (Ashgate Publishing), and is on the editorial board of Social & Legal Studies and Law & Critique. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the IVR (International Association for Legal and Social Philosophy)

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