The Max Planck Handbooks in European Public Law describe and analyze public law of the European legal space, an area that encompasses not only the law of the European Union but also the European Convention on Human Rights and, importantly, the domestic public laws of European states. Recognizing that the ongoing vertical and horizontal processes of European integration make legal comparison the task of our time for both scholars and practitioners, the series aims to foster the development of a specifically European legal pluralism and to contribute to the legitimacy and efficiency of European public law.
The first volume of the series began this enterprise with an appraisal of the evolution of the state and its administration, offering both cross-cutting contributions and specific country reports. This second volume continues this approach with an in-depth appraisal of the foundations of the constitutional order in various and diverse European countries. Fourteen country reports investigate the antecedents, foundations, organization, basic principles, and challenges to European constitutions. They include countries with long-lasting and recently amended constitutions, decentralized or unitary, with different political systems and institutional settings. In keeping with the focus on a diverse but unified legal space, each report also details how the constitutional identity of each country has been elaborated and what it entails. Together, the chapters of this volume provide a strong and diverse foundation for a continuing European constitutional dialogue.
Über den Autor Armin Von (Hrsg.) Bogdandy
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Armin von Bogdandy is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and Professor of Public Law at the University of Frankfurt/Main. He has been president of the OECD Nuclear Energy Tribunal as well as a member of the German Science Council, and the Scientific Committee of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights. He has held visiting positions at the New York University School of Law, the European University Institute, the Xiamen Academy of International Law, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico, among others. Armin von Bogdandy is the recipient of the Leibniz Prize, the prize for outstanding scientific achievements in the field of legal and economic foundations by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences; the Premio Internacional (gavel) of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
Flávia Piovesan is a professor of Constitutional Law and Human Rights at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP). She was a visiting fellow at the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School in 1995 and 2000, a fellow at the Centre for Brazilian Studies, at the University of Oxford in 2005, and a visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. From 2009-2014 she was there as a Humboldt Foundation Georg Forster Research Fellow. She was also a Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University (DRLCAS) in 2018. Flávia Piovesan is a former member of the UN High Level Task Force on the implementation of the right to development and of the OAS Working Group working on the monitoring of the Protocol of San Salvador on social, economic and cultural rights. In 2016, she was appointed Special Secretary for Human Rights in Brazil and President of the National Commission against Forced Labor. She was a Vice-President and a Commissioner for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
Eduardo Ferrer Mac-Gregor is judge and former president of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, as well as professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and researcher at the Legal Research Institute of that university. He is director of the Ibero-American Journal of Procedural Constitutional Law (Revista Iberoamericana de Derecho Procesal Constitucional). Eduardo Ferrer Mac-Gregor has acted as visiting professor and/or lecturer at multiple universities and research centers in Europe, the United States and Latin America, including University of Notre Dame, American University College of Law, Paris-Sorbonne University (Panthéon París 1), Complutense (Madrid) and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg).
Mariela Morales Antoniazzi is a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. She studied law at Andrés Bello Catholic University, obtained her LLM at the University of Heidelberg, and her PhD at the University of Frankfurt/ Main. Her research focuses on constitutional law, Human Rights Law and the Inter-American System of Human Rights. Mariela Morales Antoniazzi has been a visiting professor at various Latin American universities and is vice-president of the German section of the Ibero-American Institute of Constitutional Law. She coordinates the Ius Constitutionale Commune en América Latina (ICCAL) project at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law.
