Austrian and Russian constitutionalism: comprehensive analysis

Should Progressive Constitutionalism Embrace Popular Constitutionalism?

There are two conceptions of progressive constitutionalism explored in this Symposium. The first is of progressive constitutionalism as, first and foremost, a programmatic agenda, focused on how progressives’ “distinctive constitutional vision may best be transmuted into claims of constitutional law.”1 To the extent that this constitutional vision entails only a set of policy preferences (e.g.,...

Political constitutionalism

For ‘legal constitutionalists’, written constitutions, constitutive of the legal and political system, superior to other legislation, entrenched against change, and enumerating justiciable rights, guarantee equal respect and concern for all citizens. Judicial review is thus an essential support of democracy. In this book, Richard Bellamy offers a robust argument against this view of constitutio...

Ivan Vien and the first comprehensive plague tractate in Russian.

IVAN IVANOVICH VIEN (C. 1750-1809) is not a well-known personage either in the history of Russia or the history of medicine. Indeed, most biographical dictionaries overlook him, and his date of birth remains unknown.' Yet information will be presented here to contend that he was fairly prominent in the Russian medical world of his time, that his career elucidates important trends in the formati...

New Governance , Law and Constitutionalism

Proportionality Balancing and Global Constitutionalism