Recent publications on international human rights
| DOI | 10.1177/0924051919861799 |
| Date | 01 September 2019 |
| Published date | 01 September 2019 |
| Subject Matter | Recent publications |
Recent publications
Recent publications on
international human rights
Citizenship and Constitutional Law / Jo Shaw. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018. ISBN:
1783471069
The papers collected in this volume highlight the complex dynamic relationship between citizen-
ship – as membership status – and the constitutional law which provides the cornerstone of all
polities. It shows the many different ways in which we must use constitutional law in order fully to
understand how one becomes a citizen, and what the meaning of citizenship is. Edited by a leading
authority in the field, this volume contains the key works which cover national, transnational and
international aspects of the topic, and the book provides a particular focus on how constitutional
law constructs and upholds the range of citizenship rights.
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The Constitutional Structure of Europe’s Area of ‘Freedom, Security and Justice’ and the Right to
Justification / Ester Herlin Karnell and Ester Herlin-Karnell. Hart Publishing, 2019. ISBN:
1509912495
This book explores the implications of freedom as a non-domination-oriented view for under-
standing EU security regulation and its constitutional implications. At a time when the Eur-
opean borders are under pressure and with the refugee and migration crisis, which escalated in
2015, the idea of exploring a constitutional theory for the ‘Area of Freedom, Security and
Justice’ (AFSJ) might seem to be a utopian project. This appears especially true in the light of
the increased threat of terrorism in Europe (and on a global scale) and where the expanding EU
security agenda is often advanced through the administrative law path, in contrast to the consti-
tutional trajectory. Add to this the prolonged financial crisis, which continues to cast a long
shadow on the future development of EU integration, and which suggests that Europe needs to
‘re-invent itself’ beyond the sphere of economics. Therefore, it is precisely because of the current
uncertainties regarding the progress of the EU and the constitutional law project that a constitu-
tional take on the AFSJ is of particular importance. The book investigates the meaning of non-
domination and the idea of justice and justification in the area of EU security regulation. In doing
so, it focuses o n the development of a n AFSJ, what it m eans, and why it r epresents a fasci nating
example of contemporary constitutional law with interacting layers of security regulation, human
rights law and transnational legal theory at its core.
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Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights
2019, Vol. 37(3) 268–272
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