Encyclopedia of Contemporary Constitutionalism

1. “Political” or “Legal” Constitution? Beyond the Dichotomy

   • Lina Papadopoulou

2. 20 Years of EU Directives for Attracting Highly Qualified and Skilled Workers

   • Sebastian Klaus

3. Access to Justice: In Search of a New Concept

   • Maria Antonietta Foddai

4. Antecedents of the Argentine Presidentialism: Its Historical-Political Origins

   • Diego Agustín Ferreyra

5. Article 78 TFEU and the Way to a Common European Policy in the Field of Asylum

   • Matthias Rossi, Aqilah Sandhu

6. Artificial Intelligence and Constitutional Values

   • Salvatore Amato

7. Asylum Law in North America

   • Dagmar Soennecken

8. Beyond Migration Policy: Implications of the International “Race for Talents”

   • Holger Kolb

9. Big Data Robotics and Rights

   • Agata C. Amato Mangiameli

10. Citizens’ Legislative Initiative – Role of Institutions in Central Europe

    • Piotr Uziębło

11. Climate Change as a Challenge to Constitutional Values. Toward Climate Change Constitutionalism

    • Maciej Nyka

12. Concept of State as a Sovereign Entity

    • Alfonso J. Iglesias Velasco

13. Constitution and Climate Change: The Cases of Germany and Brazil

    • Ingo Wolfgang Sarlet, Wolfgang Kahl

14. Constitution as Literature

    • Pedro Talavera

15. Constitution, Interpretation

    • Mirosław Granat

16. Constitutional (Mixed) Monarchy

    • Marcin Michał Wiszowaty

17. Constitutional Complaint

    • Anna Rytel-Warzocha

18. Constitutional Hermeneutic Principles and Constitutional Interpretation

    • Manuel Lázaro Pulido

19. Constitutional Jurisprudence, EU Law, and Italian Constitution

    • Luigi Daniele

20. Constitutional Justice in Poland

    • Mirosław Granat

This Encyclopedia covers the developments of a wide variety of constitutional law topics, taking a global perspective. It discusses these constitutional law topics in detail and provides analyses of their transformation from traditional structures to the current phenomena. The volumes focus on constitutional topics as changing phenomena, offer in-depth comparative analyses at the national, regional and universal level, consider the international context, and reveal the cultural, historical and social relation between topics. Specifically, the volumes consider regional perspectives from legal cultures in Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia , Africa, and Australia. They discuss and provide examples of the common features and differences of specific legal phenomena such as constitutional justice, fundamental rights protection, and institutional systems, in the various countries and legal systems discussed. In the analyses of these topics, the chapters and volumes take into account the historical, sociological and philosophical context. 

Constitutional law in the world is characterized both by the emergence of universal principles and the consolidation of regional particularities due to specific cultural orientations, historical factors and political impact. In the last decades, constitutional law has undergone profound changes; traditional concepts which seemed to be firmly established have proven to be no longer appropriate for the new developments which are characterized by growing internationalization, dynamic transfers of legal ideas by a manifold transnational “dialogue”, integration processes, and new challenges resulting from technological progress.

Editors-in-Chief

Javier Cremades
Cremades & Calvo-Sotelo Abogados, Madrid, Spain

Cristina Hermida del Llano
Public Law II & Philology Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain

Section Editors

• Digital Democracy, -E-Democracy: James Black, World Jurist Association, Jericho, USA
• Gender Equality: Teresa Freixes, Royal European Academy of Doctors, Barcelona, Spain
• Asylum, Migration and Borders: Michael Griesbeck, Universität Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
• Rule of Law and Constitutional Justice: Bianca Gutan, University of Sibiu, Sibiu, Romania
• Constitution, State, Constitutional Basics: Cristina Hermida del Llano, University Rey Juan Carlos Madrid, Madrid, Spain
• Threats to Constitutional Systems: Antonio Incampo, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
• Protection of Minorities in Constitutional Law: Giorgi Khubua, Steinbeis University, Berlin, Germany
• Asylum, Migration and Borders: Winfried Kluth, Universität Halle, Halle, Deutschland
• Constitutional Law in Humanities (Philosophy, Literature, Art): Raúl Madrid, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
• Rule of Law and Constitutional Justice: José Ignacio Martínez-Estay, Universidad de los Andes, Santiago de Chile, Chile
• Fundamental Rights (FR): Luca Mezzetti, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
• Territorial Organization, Federalism, Regionalism: Francesco Palermo, University of Verona and Eurac Research, Bolzano/Bozen, Italy
• Environmental Constitutionalism: Vasco Pereira da Silva, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
• International /Supranational Law: Sinisa Rodin, Court of Justice of the EU, Kirchberg, Luxembourg
• History of Constitutional Law: Enrique San Miguel Pérez, Rey Juan Carlos University, Madrid, Spain
• Constitutional aspects of the States of Emergency: Diego Solana, Cremades & Calvo-Sotelo, Madrid, Spain
• Conversations with Global leaders: Teodora Toma, Cremades & Calvo-Sotelo, Madrid, Spain
• Political Ideology and Constitutionalism: Alessandro Torre, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
• Institutions: Arta Vorpsi, Tirana University Law Faculty, Tirana, Albania

• Contemporary Constitutionalism
• Fundamental rights protection
• Common structures of constitutional justice
• Constitutional interpretation
• Democracy and Government
• Democracy, Republic and Monarchy
• Parties and electoral systems
• Fundamental rights and their internationalization
• Human dignity and personality rights
• Classical freedoms and political rights
• Economic and social rights
• Judicial protection of fundamental rights
• Legislator and constitutional justice
• Constitutional justice and the political process
• State Constitution and international law

• Cremades & Calvo-Sotelo Abogados, Madrid, Spain

  Javier Cremades

• Public Law II & Philology, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain

  Cristina Hermida

Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Rainer Arnold, was appointed, in 1978, at the University of Regensburg, holder of the Chair of Public Law, in particular Comparative Law, EC Law, Economic Administrative Law, Public Law of Foreign Countries and  in 1999 also holder of the Jean Monnet Chair of EC Law. He was awarded in 2008 holder of the Jean Monnet Chair ad personam “Legal Relation of the EU with Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe”. In 2000 he was nominated a permanent Visiting Professor (Hostující Profesor) at Charles University Prague. From 2002 – 2012 he was director of the German Studies Program DSG at Moscow State University Lomonosov. He was elected Corresp. Member of the Academy of Sciences of Bologna (2002), Membre associé (2002) and in 2015 ordinary member of the Académie internationale de droit comparé (2002) as well as Fellow of the European Law Institute (2010). He was a Fernand Braudel Fellow and repeatedly Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, as well as Visiting Professor at the Universities Paris I, Paris II, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Aix-en-Provence, Trento, Rome La Sapienza, Bologna, Lisbon, Santiago de Chile, etc. He was awarded Dr. h.c. by the University of Law of the National Academy of Sciencs of the Ukraine, Kiev, (2012) of the University Alba Iulia “1st of December 1918”, Romania (2013), and of the University of Pitesti, Romania (2014). His research fields and numerous international publications focus on Comparative Constitutional Law, EU law, and Human Rights.