Political Dimension of Constitutional Law

Miguel Nogueira de Brito is Associate Professor at the University of Lisbon’s School of Law and Coordinator for Constitutional Law at the Lisbon Centre for Research in Constitutional Law. His main research interests are Constitutional Law and Political Theory. His main works are “A Constituição Constituinte” and “A Justificação da Propriedade Privada numa Democracia Constitucional”. Luís Pereira Coutinho is Associate Professor at the University of Lisbon’s School of Law. His research interests are Constitutional Law and Political Theory. His main works are “A Autoridade Moral da Constituição” and “Teoria dos Regimes Políticos”. He edited “Eichmann and Jerusalem: 50 years after” and “Judicial Activism: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the American and European Experiences”, the latter with Springer.

• Introduction.- Part I.- Fundamental Law.- Fundamental Law.- Expanding Legality and Losing Fundamental Law: On Martin Loughlin’s Dualist Conception of Public Law.- Part II.- A Political-Theological Dimension.- Decision and Legal Interpretation.- An Alternative Political Theology: The Negative and Anticipatory Significance of the Constitutive Concepts of Constitutional Law.- Part III.- Political Constitutional Law.- Informal Constitutional Change and Political Law.- “Liquid Constitutions” and Their Informal Changes.- Part IV The Problem of European “Constitutional Law”.- A Functional Alternative to Political Right: Social Contract Withouta People.- In Capital We Trust: The Eurozone: A Congeries of Material Norms Without a Constitution?.- The Different Faces of Politics: Economic Governance and EuropeanDemocracy