The Cambridge Handbook on the Material Constitution

395 Pages·2023·2.721 MB·English

by  Marco Goldoni, Michael A. Wilkinson

the cambridge handbook on the material constitution
Despite a long and venerable tradition, the material constitution almost disappeared from consti-
tutionalscholarshipaftertheSecondWorldWar.Itsmarginalisationsawtheriseofanormativeand
legalistic style in constitutional law that neglected the role of social reality and political economy.
This collection not only retrieves the history and development of the concept of the material
constitution,butittestsitstheoreticalandpracticalrelevanceinthecontemporaryworld.Withessays
fromadiverserangeofcontributors,thecollectiondemonstratesthatthematerialconstitutionspeaks
toseveralpressingissues,fromthesignificanceofeconomicdevelopmentinconstitutionalordersto
questionsofconstitutionalidentity.Offeringoriginalanalysessupportedbyinternationalcasestudies,
this bookdevelopsanewmodelofconstitutionalreality,onethatinformsourunderstandingofthe
worldinprofoundways.
Marco Goldoni is Senior Lecturer in Legal Theory at Glasgow University. He is the author of The
LegacyofPluralism(2020,withM.Croce)andTheMaterialityoftheLegalOrder(2022).Heisjoint
generaleditorofthejournalJurisprudenceandco-editorofLawandPolitics:ContinentalPerspectives
(Routledge).
MichaelA.WilkinsonisProfessorofLawattheLondonSchoolofEconomicsandPoliticalScience
(LSE).HeistheauthorofAuthoritarianLiberalismandtheTransformationofModernEurope(2021).
HehasheldvisitingprofessorshipsatCornell,ParisII,theNationalUniversityofSingaporeandKeio
University.HisworkhasbeentranslatedintoPortuguese,Italian,SpanishandTurkish.
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The Cambridge Handbook on the Material
Constitution
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MARCO GOLDONI
UniversityofGlasgow
MICHAEL A. WILKINSON
London School ofEconomics andPolitical Science
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Contents
List of Contributors pageix
Introduction: TheReturnof the Material Constitution 1
Marco Goldoni andMichael A.Wilkinson
part i history
1 The Tradition ofthe Material Constitution in Western Marxism 25
Marco Goldoni andMichael A.Wilkinson
2 The Soul ofthe State: The Question of Constitutional Identity in Carl
Schmitt’s Verfassungslehre 45
Jens Meierhenrich
3 Laski’sMaterialist Analysisof the British Constitution 64
Martin Loughlin
4 RudolfSmend’sLegacyin German Constitutional Theory 76
Tim Wihl
5 The Constitution in the MaterialSenseAccording
toCostantino Mortati 89
LuciaRubinelli
6 The Material Constitution of the Dual State 100
LarsVinx
7 ‘ACertain ShadowyTotality’: InSearch of the Material Constitution of the
UnitedStates 112
Rob Hunter
8 The Material Constitution in Greek Constitutional Thought 124
Nikolas Vagdoutis
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9 The Constitution AsSocial Compromise: Hybrid Constitutionalisation and
the Legacyof WolfgangAbendroth 136
Kolja Möller
10 ‘Self-Justifying Law of ConstitutionalLaw’: The Material Constitution in
Rudolf Wiethölter’sCriticalSystemsTheory 150
Gunther Teubner
part ii challenges
11 The Material Constitution and Imperialism 171
Eva Nanopoulos
12 The Material Constitution of Federations 188
Signe Rehling Larsen
13 The MaterialistTurn in Constitutional Thought 199
Emilios Christodoulidis
14 ThreeRegistersof the MaterialConstitution 210
Neil Walker
15 What Matter(s)? A Processual View of the Material Constitution 223
Mariano Croce
16 The Material Constitution and the Rule of Recognition 233
Francesco Bilancia andStefano CivitareseMatteucci
17 Constitutional Matterand Form: AnExploration of ConstitutionalLanguage 246
Denis Baranger
part iii analyses
18 A MaterialUnderstanding of Constitutional Changes: Revisiting
‘Constitutional Maintenance’Doctrines 261
GraziellaRomeo
19 The Material Constitution in Latin American Courts 275
Mariana Velasco-Rivera andJoel Colón-Ríos
20 A Materialist Analysis of the Indian Constitution 288
Sandipto Dasgupta
21 China’s Material Constitution 301
NgocSon Bui
22 The Material Constitution and ExtractivePolitical Economy: Lessons
from Mongolia 313
Jennifer Lander
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23 The Military in the Material Constitutionof Turkey 325
Tarik Olcay
24 The Material Constitution of International InvestmentLaw 335
Jessica Lawrence andTom Flynn
25 The ‘Terrible’Functional Constitution of the European Union: ‘Sound’
Money,Economic Freedom(s)and ‘Free’ Competition 351
Agustín José Menéndez
Index 367
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Contributors
DenisBarangerisProfessorofPublicLawatParis2–Panthéon-AssasUniversityandDirectorof
the Institut Michel Villey. He is co-editor of http://juspoliticum.com/la-revue and www
.droitphilosophie.com. He teaches and publishes in several fields: constitutional law, history of
ideas, jurisprudence. He has recently published Penser la Loi (Gallimard, 2018) and La consti-
tution: sources, interprétations, raisonnements (Dalloz, 2022). He has received several awards
(Prix François Furet, Grand Prix Charles Aubert de l’Académie des Sciences Morales et
Politiques) and is an honorary member of the Institut Universitaire deFrance.
FrancescoBilanciaisProfessorofPublicLawandDeputy-DirectoroftheDepartmentofLegal
andSocialStudiesattheUniversityofChieti-Pescara(Italy).Hisresearchinterestsstretchfrom
public and constitutional law, theory of law, fundamental rights, market regulation and social
welfarelawtoEUlawandtheEuropeanintegrationprocess.AmonghispublicationsareLacrisi
dell’ordinamentogiuridicodello stato rappresentativo (Padua,2000),Idirittifondamentali come
conquiste sovrastatali di civiltà. Il diritto di proprietà nella CEDU (Giappichelli, 2002; with
S. Civitarese Matteucci) and ‘The Material Constitutional Arrangement of the European
Union’, in M. Belov (ed.), Peace, Discontent and Constitutional Law: Challenges to
ConstitutionalOrderand Democracy (Routledge, 2021).
Ngoc SonBui is Associate Professor ofAsian laws at the Facultyof Law, University ofOxford.
He works on comparative and constitutional law in Asia, with a focus on the socialist and
Confucian culture-influenced jurisdictions. He is the author of Constitutional Change in the
ContemporarySocialistWorld(OxfordUniversityPress,2020)andConfucianConstitutionalism
in EastAsia (Routledge, 2016).
Emilios Christodoulidis holds the Chair of Jurisprudence at the University of Glasgow. He is
author of many articles on constitutional theory, democratic theory, critical legal theory and
transitional justice, as well as author of Law and Reflexive Politics (Springer, 1998) and, more
recently, The Redress of Law (Cambridge University Press, 2021). His work has appeared in
English,Greek,French, Japanese andSpanish.Heis aneditor oftheseries CriticalStudies in
Jurisprudence (Routledge)andservesas a managing editor of the journal Law &Critique.
StefanoCivitareseMatteucciisProfessor(chair)ofPublicLawintheDepartmentofLegaland
SocialStudies,UniversityofChieti-PescaraandHonoraryVisitingProfessor,2021–2026,atYork
LawSchool.Hisresearchinterestsrangefromconstitutionallawtotheoryoflaw,administrative
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