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Introduction: Constitutional Language in the International Legal Debate

In recent decades, constitutional language has been used equally to face challenges of globalization and fragmentation of International Law, to explain the phenomena of supranational integration as well as to evaluate the characteristics of human rights protection organizations. The versatility of constitutional language makes it more difficult to clearly define the limits of the different debates arising when the word “constitutionalism” is applied in the international debate, and therefore, there are often conceptual confusions.

Indeed, the conceptual vocabulary of constitutionalism is often used in several ways in academic debates related to the global setting (Diggelmann and Altwicker 2008; Lang and Wiener 2017; Schwöbel-Patel 2011). A variety of different expressions are used, such as “Global Constitutionalism” (Peters 2009), “Transnational Constitutionalism” (Neves 2013), “World Constitutionalism” (Macdonald...

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Núñez Donald, C. (2023). Cosmopolitan Constitutionalism. In: Sellers, M., Kirste, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6730-0_83-1

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