Subject
Sociology of public law
General details of the subject
- Mode
- Face-to-face degree course
- Language
- English
Teaching staff
Name | Institution | Category | Doctor | Teaching profile | Area | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
BARBERO GONZALEZ, IKER | University of the Basque Country | Profesorado Agregado | Doctor | Bilingual | Administrative Law | iker.barbero@ehu.eus |
Competencies
Name | Weight |
---|---|
comprender la distinción derecho público/privado y la difuminación de esta distinción | 40.0 % |
Comprender la distinción según los distintos sistemas jurídicos comparados y las culturas jurídicas | 20.0 % |
Conocer cómo los cambios sociales afectan a una institución jurídica concreta. | 20.0 % |
Manejo de los conocimientos adquiridos en los cursos sobre culturas jurídicas comparadas, sociología del derecho y teoría social para entender una institución concreta de derecho público o de derecho privado | 20.0 % |
Study types
Type | Face-to-face hours | Non face-to-face hours | Total hours |
---|---|---|---|
Lecture-based | 5 | 0 | 5 |
Seminar | 25 | 45 | 70 |
Training activities
Name | Hours | Percentage of classroom teaching |
---|---|---|
Case analysis | 20.0 | 100 % |
Discussion | 5.0 | 100 % |
Text analysis | 20.0 | 100 % |
Written discussion of a topic | 30.0 | 10 % |
Assessment systems
Name | Minimum weighting | Maximum weighting |
---|---|---|
Attendance and participation | 50.0 % | 50.0 % |
Evaluation by means of the presentation of projects | 50.0 % | 50.0 % |
Written examination | 50.0 % | 50.0 % |
Temary
The Constitution of Society, or Society of Constitutions?: on political, legal and sociological conceptualizations of constitutionalismThe Constitutional State as Social Organization: on structural coupling between power and legality
Constitutionalism and Nationalism: on cultural symbolism of modern constitutions
Constitutional Rights: a sociological perspective
Bibliography
Compulsory materials
Nico Krisch, Beyond Constitutionalism: The Pluralist Structure of Postnational Law (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010) chapters 1 and 2Martin Loughlin, `What is Constitutionalisation?¿ in Petra Dobner and Martin Loughlin (eds) The Twilight of Constitutionalism? (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010) 47-72
Niklas Luhmann, Law as a Social System (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004) 357-380
Chris Thornhill, A Sociology of Constitutions: Constitutional and State Legitimacy in Historical-Sociological Perspective (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2011) 88-110
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (London: Verso, 1983) ch. 1
Ji¿í P¿ibá¿, Legal Symbolism: on law, time and European identity (Aldershot, Ashgate, 2007) 25-46
Paul Berman, Global Legal Pluralism: A Jurisprudence of Law beyond Borders (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010) 141-151
Daniel Levy and Natan Sznaider, ¿Sovereignty transformed: a sociology of human rights¿, The British Journal of Sociology 57(4) (2006), 657-76
Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Towards a New Legal Common Sense. 2nd edition. (London, Butterworths, 2002) 458-471
Kaarlo Tuori, `The Many Constitutions of Europe¿ in Kaarlo Tuori and Sankari Suvi (eds) The Many Constitutions of Europe (Aldershot, Ashgate, 2010) 3-30
Neil Walker, `Post-Constituent Constitutionalism? The Case of the European Union¿ in Martin Loughlin and Neil Walker (eds), The Paradox of Constitutionalism: Constituent Power and Constitutional Form (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007) 247-267
In-depth bibliography
GP Callies and P Zumbansen, Rough Consensus and Running Code: A Theory of Transnational Private Law (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2010)M Delmas¿Marty: Ordering Pluralism. A Conceptual Framework for Understanding the Transnational Legal World (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2009)
Anthony Giddens, The Nation-State and Violence: Volume Two of A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1985)
D Held, Democracy and the Global Order: From Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance (Stanford CA.: Stanford University Press, 1995)
C Joerges, IJ Sand and G Teubner (eds) Transnational Governance and Constitutionalism (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2004)
P Kjaer, Constitutionalism in the Global Realm: A Sociological Approach (Oxon, Routledge, 2014)
JN Rosenau and EO Czempiel, Governance without Government: order and change in world politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992).
D Sciulli, Theory of Societal Constitutionalism: foundations of a non-Marxist critical theory (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992)
G Teubner (ed), Global Law Without a State (Aldershot, Dartmouth, 1997)
Journals
REVISTA Roger Cotterrell, `Transnational Communities and the Concept of Law¿ (2008) 21 Ratio Juris, 1-18REVISTA John Griffith, `What is Legal Pluralism?¿ (1986) 24 Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, 1-55
REVISTA Brian Tamanaha, `The Folly of the ¿Social Scientific¿ Concept of Legal Pluralism¿, (1993) 20 Journal of Law and Society, 192-217
Context, 189-202 . Available at: http://www.cirsdig.it/Pubblicazioni/nelken.pdf
REVISTA H Lindahl, `European Integration: Popular Sovereignty and a Politics of Boundaries¿ 6(3) European Law Journal (2000) 239-56
REVISTA SE Merry, `Legal Pluralism¿ (1998) 22(5) Law and Society Review, 869-896