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CURSO:COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
TRADUCCION:DERECHO CONSTITUCIONAL COMPARADO
SIGLA:DER604G
CREDITOS:05
MODULOS:02
CARACTER:OPTATIVO
TIPO:CATEDRA
CALIFICACION:ESTANDAR
PALABRAS CLAVE:DERECHO COMPARADO, GLOBAL CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, COMPARATIVE COURTS, COMPARATIVE REASONING
NIVEL FORMATIVO:PREGRADO


I.DESCRIPCIÓN DEL CURSO

Throughout this course, students will be able to analyze the method, language and main issues of comparative constitutional law. Also, they will apply the functionalist method to study constitutional law concerning the most pressing problems in our contemporary time guided by the methodology of comparative law. The course considers methodologies like problem-based learning, debates and written reports. The assessment considers reports, essays and an exam.


II.RESULTADOS DE APRENDIZAJE

1.Apply the language of comparative constitutional law and engage in the discussion of its different narratives on the local, regional and global level.

2.Analyze the most relevant sources of comparative constitutional law in English and the key sources relevant for each topic.

3.Synthetize academic sources from different disciplines of sciences, all relevant for the discussion of the issues of comparative constitutional law.

4.Analyze different problems of constitutional law (constitutional theory, state structure, fundamental rights) through the comparative legal methodology.

5.Project commonalities, similarities and regional or global tendencies in different aspects of constitutional law.

6.Propose different solutions for issues, questions or dilemmas in constitutional law using comparative law experience.


III.CONTENIDOS

1.Notion and Challenges of Comparative Constitutional Law
1.1.Rise of World Constitutionalism?
1.2.Advantages and risks of the use of comparative law

2.Foundations of classical constitutionalism
2.1.Continental legal culture
2.2.Crises of classical constitutionalism

3.Public Reason Constitutionalism
3.1.Common law legal tradition
3.2.Anglo-American Divide

4.Constitutionalism in the service of social justice and equality
4.1.Italian neoconstitutionalism
4.2.Transformative constitutionalism, Andean neoconstitutionalism
4.3.Challenges of neoconstitutionalism

5.Constitution-making and constitutional change
5.1.Constitution-making procedures
5.2.Elements of constitutional endurance
5.3.Amendment difficulty

6.Comparative Constitutional Review
6.1.Types and features of constitutional review models
6.2.Global tendencies

7.Comparative Constitutional Reasoning
7.1.Interpretive methods
7.2.Political meaning-making
7.3.Transnational dialogue

8.Scenarios of democratic backlash
8.1.Authoritarian constitutionalism
8.2.Illiberal constitutionalism
8.3.Court-packing


IV.ESTRATEGIAS METODOLOGICAS

-Problem-based learning.

-In-class debates.

-Written outputs.


V.ESTRATEGIAS EVALUATIVAS

-Participation: 20%

-Periodic reports: 20%

-Short essay: 20%

-Final exam: 40%


VI.BIBLIOGRAFIA

Minima

Bruce Ackerman, The Rise of World Constitutionalism, Yale Law School Legal Scholarship Repository, Occasional Papers, 9-1-1996.

Paolo Grossi, A History of European Law. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. 1-39.

Dan Priel, Conceptions of Authority and the Anglo-American Common Law Divide. American Journal of Comparative Law (2016/17)

Michel Rosenfeld ? Andras Sajo, The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law. OUP (2012)

Zachary Elkins (et.al.), The Endurance of National Constitutions, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2009. 1-11; 78-92.

Weiler -Lustig, Judicial Review in the contemporary world. Retrospective and Prospective. International Journal of Constitutional law. Vol. 16. Issue2. (2018)

Jakab-Dyevre-Itzkovich, Comparative Constitutional Reasoning, CUP 2017.


Complementaria

T.R.S. Allan, Text, Context, and Constitution: The Common Law as Public Reason, in: Douglas Edlin (ed.), Common Law Theory, Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Tom Ginsburg ? James Melton, Does the constitutional amendment rule matter at all? Amendment cultures and the challenges of measuring amendment difficulty. ICON (2015) Vol.13. No.3. 686-713.

Patricia Navia ? Julio Rios-Figueroa, The Constitutional Adjudication Mosaic of Latin America. Comparative Political Studies Vol.38. No.2. March 2005. 189-217.

Farred Zakaria, The Rise of Illiberal Democracy (Foreign Policy, 1997)

David Kosar and Katarina Sipulova, How to fight court-packing? Constitutional Studies Vol.6. (2020)

Charles Taylor, The Age of the Secular

Habermas- Raztinger, The Dialectics of Secularism.

Hannah Arendt, The origins of the totalitarianism


PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE
FACULTAD DE DERECHO / NOVIEMBRE 2020