商品簡介
Political scholars and practitioners place the quest for fundamental rights and more generally for European political identity in the context of today's struggle to define and steer the European Union. Among the topics are the Charter of Fundamental Rights and European constitutionalism, the European identity in the proceedings of the European Parliament, the sub-national dimension of multi-level rights protection in the European Union, contextualizing "judicial activism" in the US Supreme Court and the European Court of Justice, and the legal impact and political consequences of the Charter of Fundamental Rights after its first decade. There is no index. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Gabriele De Angelis is a researcher in political theory at the Universidade Nova of Lisbon, Portugal. He completed his first PhD at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and his second at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy. Before taking on his current position he has worked at the University of Pisa as a teaching fellow. After focusing his research activities on the social theory of J. Habermas and N. Luhmann he devoted himself to the study of European political institutions, paying particular attention to the European Parliament.
Paulo Barcelos is a PhD candidate and a lecturer at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He is an associate researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of Language. His research activities focus on contemporary political theory, with particular attention to the debates concerning globalization, global distributive justice and transnational democracy.
