Author: José María Porras Ramirez

Synopsis: Evaluating the freedoms of thought, conscience and religion based on the Spanish constitutional system, considering its relationship with the international and community systems, professor José María Porras Ramírez demonstrates his complete familiarity with the mechanisms guaranteeing fundamental rights in force in the Union European Union, realizing in its various spheres different and complementary protection mechanisms, an essential condition for the coherence of the system throughout the multilevel environment.

Author: Reinhold Zippelius

Synopsis: Knowing how legal and other norms participate in the shaping of communities and how law itself is a product of social relations are core questions of legal sociology addressed in this book. The intention is to deal with fundamental concepts here, so that the most important themes and thinkers are presented in an orderly, workable sequence of ideas.

Author: Francisco Balaguer Callejón

Synopsis: When we think about the concepts through which the Theory of Sources of Law was constructed, we find a high degree of formalization and technical development that seems to separate them from their social and political foundations. Terms such as hierarchy, competence, validity, effectiveness and many others that make up the system of sources seem to acquire a life of their own and develop only within the scope of inter-normative relationships, without any relationship with society and history. This is not the case, however, since the system of sources actually expresses the way in which political and social power is distributed. For this reason, it is strongly steeped in history and closely linked to the problems that arise in relation to the distribution and control of power, which are specifically constitutional themes.

In this book we take into account this connection of meaning with social and political reality without renouncing to explain, in understandable terms, the technical-legal formulation of the major concepts that allow us to understand the structure of the legal system. These are not two contradictory visions but rather complementary ones. To understand the concept of hierarchy, competence or force of law we must necessarily explain the historical evolution that leads the legal State to the constitutional State of Law, in the same way that, to understand the source system of many countries we have to refer to recent phenomena such as supranational integration.

Author: Bodo Pieroth, Bernard Schilink

Synopsis: Considered one of the most relevant works ever produced in modern German law, the book complements existing studies on fundamental rights, presenting precious elements for those who wish to deepen their knowledge in the scope of international academic law. In this work, the authors highlight the importance of the rulings of the German Federal Constitutional Court, as the objective is to expose the fundamental rights contained in the Greater Law of that country. With this, we intend to critically and comprehensively inform the interested reader, especially postgraduate students, about the jurisprudence of the Federal Constitutional Court also in light of the main doctrinal positions.

Author: Antonio Francisco de Sousa

Synopsis: Freedom of assembly and demonstration is one of the most important fundamental guarantees of the Democratic Rule of Law, which can be assessed according to the level of democracy achieved in a given society. /p>

The evolution of the right to assembly and demonstration in Europe has followed the socioeconomic evolution of each country. Today, meetings and demonstrations are part of the political daily life of Western democratic societies, to the point of being dubbed, according to the Author, “democracies of demonstrations”. /p>

Its legal regime is quite different in comparative law, although no substantial differences are observed within the Member States of the European Union. /p>

There are countries that expressly recognize it in the Constitution, such as Portugal, Germany, Italy, Spain and Greece. And there are those who make it depend on a measure of “good will” from the police and the courts, like England and, to a certain extent, France. /p>

In Brazil, although there has been a certain improvement in recent decades, the subject requires detailed reflection in view of certain specificities, such as the issue of the duty of prior notice, the duty of cooperation from authorities, freedom of choice regarding the place, day and time , the moment of its suspension, the application of sanctions in the event of damage, the limits of citizens' rights and freedoms and police action, etc. /p>

The Author writes in light of the fundamental requirements of the Democratic Rule of Law, generally recognized in the Portuguese Constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights. By the way, they are also approved by the Brazilian Constitution (art. 5, XVI). Certainly, this work represents a valuable scientific contribution to the legal community.

Author: Diego Valades

The book is a compilation of interviews given by Professor Peter Häberle to several constitutionalists, of different nationalities, where the professor reviews the origin of his theses and the evolution of his thought.

Peter Häberle is a retired professor of Public Law and Philosophy of Law at the University of Bayreuth, in the Federal Republic of Germany, and currently serves as director of the Institute of European Law and European Legal Culture, at the same university center.

Born in Göppingen, Germany, in 1934, he studied at the Universities of Tübingen, Bonn, Montpellier (France) and Freiburg. In his doctoral thesis, he brilliantly dealt with the essential content of fundamental rights in the Bonn Basic Law.

His work as a researcher was the subject of numerous honorable distinctions. In 1998, he was awarded the research award for international cooperation from the Max Planck Institut (Max-Planck-Forschungspreis für Internationale Kooperation).

His work is extensive, comprising hundreds of articles and more than twenty monographs, with fundamental contributions to European and global constitutional doctrine, in several works.

Peter Häberle stands out, in addition to his invaluable legal expertise, for the depth of his philosophical, theological and artistic knowledge, which has given this notable professor the title of an authentic humanist. His work has attracted attention for its methodological originality, updating and conceptual depth, which allows new approaches to the human sciences, in general, and legal sciences, in particular.

Defender of tolerance and acceptance of others, as inseparable cultural elements of a constitutional theory, protective of the reality imposed by the new millennium, Professor Peter Häberle contributed enormously to the strengthening of the Constitutional State, especially in countries of democratic transition. In Brazil, his contribution has been invaluable to the development of constitutional law.