Interlocking constitutions
Subtitle: towards an interordinal theory of national, European and UN law
By: Luis I. Gordillo
Contributors: Gordillo, Luis I.
Series: Hart monographs in transnational and international law -- volume 8; Hart monographs in transnational and international law -- v. 8.
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9781849462211
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms; International and municipal law; Constitutional law; International law; United Nations
Description: "The existence of interactions between different but overlapping legal systems has always presented challenges to black letter law. This is particularly true of the relationship between international law and domestic law and the relationship between federal law and the laws of individual federation members. Moreover some organisations have created their own supranational constitutional systems: the United Nations Charter is the best known, and is often referred to as the 'World Constitution', but the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg views the European Treaties as a 'Constitutional Charter' for Europe, while the European Court of Human Rights has defined the European Convention on Human Rights as a constitutional instrument of 'European public order'. It is in the dynamic relationship between domestic constitutional laws, EU law, the ECHR and the UN Charter that the most persistent difficulties arise. In this context 'interordinal instability' not only provokes strong academic interest, but also affects what has been called 'governance' or 'global government' and undermines both legal certainty and individual fundamental rights. Different solutions - constitutionalist and pluralist - have been explored, but none of them has received global acceptance. In this book Luis Gordillo analyses the interordinal instabilities which arise at the European level, focusing on three main strands of case law and their implications: Solange, Bosphorus and Kadi. To solve the difficulties caused by this instability Gordillo proposes a form of soft constitutionalism, which he calls 'interordinal constitutionalism', as a means to bring order and stability to global legal governance. The original Spanish thesis on which this book is based was awarded the Nicolás Pérez Serrano Prize by the Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, for the best dissertation in constitutional law 2009-2010."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Based on the author's original Spanish language dissertation (doctoral)--Universidad de Deusto, 2009/2010.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-366) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Different legal orders and different legal pyramids --; title: The attempted reconciliation --; title: The fundamental rights and the Union --; title: The European Convention on Human Rights According to the European Court of Justice --; title: EC/EU law according to the European Court of Human Rights --; title: The dialogue between Strasbourg and Luxembourg : current situation and prospects --; title: The UN Security Council as a "global law enforcement power" --; title: European Union law and Security Council resolutions : participation of the European Union in the United Nations sanctions regime --; title: European Convention on Human Rights and Security Council resolutions : the contributions of the European Court of Human Rights --; title: International law according to the European supranational courts --; title: The pluralistic conception versus the constitutional conception of the international legal order --; title: The position of the European Union on the international scene after the Kadi case ---- Conclusions.