Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Communitarian Law courses/teachers

Besides the old research posted at the ACL under Communitarian Law: http://nord.twu.net/acl/commlaw.html, I've added a more current list to this blog over the past couple years. To even suggest communitarian law does not exist is ludicrious. In some former countries already "merged" into Etzioni's supra national world government system, communitarianism is openly declared to be constitutional law:
"The communitarian nature of the new constitution is based on the recognition of the cultural institutions that give form to the behaviours not only of rural communities, but also urban ones. We speak about the ayllus, the tentas, the capitanias, the organising structures that give meaning to migration, migrant settlements, holidays, festivals, challas, rituals and ceremonies, where collective symbolism lies. An initial conclusion could be the following: the new constitution represents a transition from the unitary and social nature of the state to a plural-national and communitarian one.

"It is also a constitutional transition, as developments in liberal rights, obligations and guarantees are combined with constitutionalised indigenous demands, and with legal and political forms that give a constitutional framework to the process of nationalisation and recovery of natural resources. In other words, it does not cease to be a liberal constitution, albeit in a pluralist version, incorporating four generations of rights: individual rights, social rights, collective rights and environmental rights. It is also an indigenous and popular constitution in that it incorporates the indigenous nations' and peoples' own institutionality, their own structures and practices. In the same way, it is a constitution that recognises the fundamental role of the public realm as an interventionist, welfare and industrialising state." Bolivia's New Political Constitution of the State, by Raul Prada, posted on the Democratic Underground-Latin America.

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