Global society and constitutional fragmentation: the new challenges to the modern constitutionalism

Authors

  • Douglas Elmauer Universidade de Brasília - UnB

Keywords:

Constitutional fragments, globalization, Constitutional theory, Societal constitutionalism

Abstract

This article deals with a critical interpretation the debate that revolves around the crisis of modern constitutionalism and new dilemmas that arise concerning the constitutional theory in a globalized society and in progressive fragmentation. This is a reading of the work Verfassungsfragmente (2012) by Gunther Teubner. The article will try to give an overview of the subject, including (i) the historical aspects of the origin of the modern constitution and the functional synthesis between legal system and political system, (ii) the transition of political constitutions for civil constitutions, (iii) a general trends to systemic hypertrophy and the constitutions as mechanisms of reaction to the expansiveness, with special emphasis on societal constitutionalism, (iv) the new constitutional conditions of global society, (v) the fundamental rights and transnational inter-constitutionals collisions, and ending with a (vi) critical about the real possibility of implementing the civil constitutions, with consideration of the risks that can bring a constitutional fragmentation for maintaining the functional autonomy of the social spheres.

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Author Biography

Douglas Elmauer, Universidade de Brasília - UnB

PhD Candidate at the University of Bremen, Germany (2016); Master from the University of São Paulo Law School (2015). (http://lattes.cnpq.br/2812933796719966)
Capa da Revista Direito.UnB Volume 2, Número 2

Published

2016-04-01

How to Cite

ELMAUER, Douglas. Global society and constitutional fragmentation: the new challenges to the modern constitutionalism. Direito.UnB - Law Journal of the University of Brasília, [S. l.], v. 2, n. 2, p. 11–43, 2016. Disponível em: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistadedireitounb/article/view/24485. Acesso em: 20 may. 2024.

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