Cosmopolitan Legal Order: Kant, Constitutional Justice, and the European Convention on Human Rights

by Alec Stone Sweet and Clare Ryan

Book Overview

In this book, Alec Stone Sweet and Clare Ryan provide an accessible introduction to Kantian constitutional theory and the law and politics of European rights protection. Part I sets out Kant's blueprint for achieving Perpetual Peace and constitutional justice within and beyond the nation
state. Part II applies these ideas to explain the gradual constitutionalization of a Cosmopolitan Legal Order: a transnational legal system in which justiciable...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019882534X
• ISBN13: 9780198825340
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.6"