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Article Review: David Landau on Social Rights Enforcement

Published: 28 October, 2012

[Editor's Note: In this first installment of I•CONnect's Article Review Series, Brian Ray reviews David Landau's article on "The Reality of Social Rights Enforcement." Professor Landau then responds to Professor Ray's review.] A Review of Landau on Social Rights Enforcement --Brian Ray, Associate Professor, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law David Landau’s recent article The Reality of...

Joel Colón-Riós, Weak Constitutionalism: Democratic legitimacy and the question of constituent power (London: Routledge, 2012)

Published: 15 October, 2012

--Reviewed by Zoran Oklopcic, Assistant Professor, Carleton University  With the demise of communism in the late 1980s, liberal-democratic constitutionalism emerged as an almost pleonastic set of ideas about how to structure the political life of a territorial polity. Present-day challenges to the idea of constitutionalism cluster around its suitability to be translated into different political...

A Reply to Professor Zoran Oklopcic

Published: 15 October, 2012

--Joel Colón-Ríos, Senior Lecturer, Victoria University of Wellington I am deeply grateful for Zoran Oklopcic’s thoughtful and challenging review of Weak Constitutionalism. In this short note, my objective will be to respond to what I think are Oklopcic’s three main critiques about the argument presented in the book, namely: (1) that the desirability of weak...