Societal Constitutions in Transnational Regimes: An Introduction
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/jols.12101 |
| Published date | 01 July 2018 |
| Author | Jiří Přibáň |
| Date | 01 July 2018 |
JOURNAL OF LAW AND SOCIETY
VOLUME 45, ISSUE S1, JULY 2018
ISSN: 0263-323X, pp. S1±S4
Societal Constitutions in Transnational Regimes:
An Introduction
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This collection is the outcome of `Societal Constitutions in Trans-
national Regimes', the second annual conference of Cardiff
University's Centre of Law and Society, held at the School of Law
and Politics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, 30 June±1 July 2017.
The concept of societal constitutions has introduced important methodo-
logical modifications in constitutional and socio-legal theories and produced
several studies of non-political and non-juridical constitutions and constitu-
tionalism in the last decade.
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First, it extends the concept of constitution
beyond its classical juridical meaning. Second, it detatches the constitution
from statehood and thus opens the possibility of studying the constitu-
tionalization of different transnational regimes, from global finances and
technologies to sport and canon law. Third, it decouples constitutions from
institutional politics and thus looks for new modes of political action and
subjects beyond their typically modern conceptualization in popular
sovereignty, nationhood, constituted and constituent power, and so on.
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*School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University, Law Building, Museum
Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3AX, Wales
priban@cardiff.ac.uk
1 See, especially, D. Schneiderman, Constitutionalizing Economic Globalization:
Investment Rules and Democracy's Promise (2008); G.P. Calliess and P. Zumbansen,
Rough Consensus and Running Code: A Theory of Transnational Private Law (2009);
G. Teubner, Constitutional Fragments: Societal Constitutionalism and Globalization
(2012); G. Teubner and A. Beckers (guest eds.), `Symposium: Transnational Societal
Constitutionalism', published as issue (2013) 20(2) Indiana J. of Global Legal Studies
523; P.F. Kjaer, Constitutionalism in the Global Realm (2014); R. Nobles and D.
Schiff, `Civil Disobedience and Constituent Power' (2015) 11 International J. of Law
in Context 462; C. Thornhill, A Sociology of Transnational Constitutions (2016); J.-P.
Rob et al. (eds.), Multinationals and the Constitutionalization of the World Power
System (2016); P. Blokker and C. Thornhill (eds.), Sociological Constitutionalism
(2017).
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