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Law and Revolution: Legitimacy and Constitutionalism After the Arab Spring de Nimer Sultany

Law and Revolution: Legitimacy and Constitutionalism After the Arab Spring: Oxford Constitutional Theory

Autor Nimer Sultany
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 feb 2020

Prin volumul Law and Revolution, oferim specialiștilor în drept public și teorie politică un cadru analitic riguros pentru înțelegerea modului în care perioadele de revoltă socială reconfigurează ordinea juridică. Notăm cu interes că Nimer Sultany furnizează instrumente metodologice esențiale: grile de analiză pentru procesele de tranziție, cadre de evaluare a legitimității post-revoluționare și o structură comparativă aplicată pe opt state arabe. Reținem faptul că autorul nu se limitează la o descriere istorică, ci utilizează Primăvara Arabă ca pe un laborator teoretic pentru a testa concepte precum puterea constituantă și continuitatea legală.

Abordarea este una de o precizie tehnică remarcabilă, bazată pe examinarea directă a hotărârilor judecătorești și a textelor constituționale din Egipt, Tunisia sau Libia. Complementar lucrării Arab Constitutionalism de Zaid Al-Ali, care se concentrează pe dinamica politică a reformelor, volumul de față acoperă zona de teorie juridică profundă, explorând tensiunea dintre litera legii și forța revoluționară. Dacă The Rule of Law in the Arab World de Nathan J. Brown investiga motivele pentru care liderii autoritari acceptă independența judiciară, Nimer Sultany extinde perspectiva, analizând cum aceleași instanțe devin actori centrali în legitimarea sau delegitimarea noilor regimuri.

În contextul operei sale, această carte reprezintă o maturizare a preocupărilor editoriale din The Palestine Yearbook of International Law (2019-2020). Dacă acolo accentul era pus pe dreptul internațional și eliberare, aici Nimer Sultany deconstruiește mecanismele interne de putere. Rezultatul este o lucrare ce destabilizează binarismele simpliste dintre stabilitate și haos, oferind o perspectivă critică asupra modului în care constituțiile pot, paradoxal, să servească atât revoluției, cât și restaurării vechii ordini.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198862673
ISBN-10: 0198862679
Pagini: 424
Dimensiuni: 154 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria Oxford Constitutional Theory

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Această lucrare este indispensabilă cercetătorilor în drept constituțional și relații internaționale care caută să înțeleagă mecanica juridică din spatele schimbărilor de regim. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a modului în care sistemele de drept supraviețuiesc revoluțiilor, primind totodată o analiză critică a proceselor oficialilor din epoca Mubarak și Ben Ali. Este un ghid teoretic esențial pentru navigarea complexității politice din Orientul Mijlociu.

Despre autor

Nimer Sultany este un reputat specialist în drept public, cunoscut pentru expertiza sa în teoria constituțională și politica Orientului Mijlociu. În calitate de editor al The Palestine Yearbook of International Law (2019-2020), a coordonat cercetări fundamentale privind protecția minorităților și dreptul internațional. Lucrarea sa de față, publicată în prestigioasa serie Oxford Constitutional Theory, confirmă poziția sa de lider de opinie în mediul academic, fiind recunoscut pentru capacitatea de a sintetiza surse juridice primare cu teorii politice complexe pentru a explica fenomenele de tranziție din lumea arabă.

Descriere

Taking the Arab Spring as its case study, this book explores the role of law and constitutions during societal upheavals, and critically evaluates the different trajectories they could follow in a revolutionary setting. It urges a rethinking of major categories in political, legal, and constitutional theory in light of the Arab Spring. The book is a novel and comprehensive examination of the constitutional order that preceded and followed the Arab Spring in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Morocco, Jordan, Algeria, Oman, and Bahrain. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, including an in-depth analysis of recent court rulings in several Arab countries, the book illustrates the contradictory roles of law and constitutions. The book also contrasts the Arab Spring with other revolutionary situations and demonstrates how the Arab Spring provides a laboratory for examining scholarly ideas about revolutions, legitimacy, legality, continuity, popular sovereignty, and constituent power.With a new preface from the author addressing developments in the Arab Spring.

Recenzii

Nimer Sultany's Law and Revolution offers a long overdue corrective to a canon of legal theory that gives African and Asian experiences short shrift. It likewise poses a serious challenge to strands of area studies that, for all their claims of superseding orientalism, continue to approach entire regions in the Global South as mere sources of empirical data rather than dynamic sites possessing generative theoretical capacity. But there is much more to this exceedingly important book than introducing legal theorists to the Middle East or bringing legal theory to Middle East studies. Perhaps it could be best characterized as a work of epistemological reversal, utilizing a deep reading of the Arab Spring to critique conceptual orthodoxies.
It is hard to be too effusive in one's praise for this book. It is groundbreaking for several reasons: first, it removes constitutional politics in the Arab world from some exotic margin of constitutional studies and places it in the center of cutting-edge debates about the relationship of revolution to rule of law, the rule of law and legitimacy, and constituent power and constituted power, showing how the Arab experience both enriches constitutional theory and is enriched by it; second, its theoretical sophistication is unmatched by any other work in the field of Arab constitutional politics; and, third, it takes seriously the contributions of Arab constitutional lawyers themselves by incorporating their arguments and analysis into the structure of the book instead of treating them simply as derivative authors with nothing relevant to contribute to constitutional theory.
... a well-timed and excellent contribution to the subject areas of constitutional theory and Arab legal studies. It will serve as a springboard for further systematic and comparative research in the field for years to come.
Law and Revolution by Nimer Sultany will give your brain an excellent summer workout. ... Seeking to unchain thinking patterns from social-political change, this is a must read for lawyers and politicians.
Nimer Sultany's book tells us just what we don't want to hear. He does so by taking a philosophical hammer to a range of central concepts in constitutional thought and practice ... Sultany tells us that settled understandings of concepts such as constituent power, legitimacy, revolution, and legality lie somewhere between innocent myth and devious distortion ... In a masterful study, Sultany dissects the theory of each of these ideas before illustrating how they fail to map onto the complex events in multiple nations during the Arab Spring. As a specimen of critical constitutional theory the book is first rate. As a study pulling the legal curtain back on constitutionally significant events during the Arab Spring, it is riveting. And as an in-depth book combining both of these things, it is incontestably in the front rank of constitutional scholarship.
This is a magisterial telling of the tale of legal political ideas in the tragedy of the countries of the Arab Spring. Sultany makes us see country by country that popular sovereignty, constitutionalism, constituent power, the rule of law, judicial independence, and many more, were abstractions that couldn't deliver what they promised in the way of guidance, normative judgment, or even clear meaning. For all its sadness, this is a brilliant account, full of lessons for a next time sure to come.
This study foregrounds Arab Spring experiences to reconsider theories on legitimacy, revolution, legality, and constitutionalism in an examination of the role of law and constitutions. It is a pleasure to read an account that offers so much empirically-grounded theoretical insight from experiences in Arab states by way of correction to, or development of, existing mainstream scholarship in these areas.
Drawing on a wide range of political and constitutional thought, Nimer Sultany uses "laws deeply ingrained incoherence" as a probe to destabilize familiar dichotomies - such as reform/revolution and continuity/disruption - in theorizing about constitutions, revolutions, and legitimacy. His case studies of Egypt, Tunisia, and other nations caught up in the Arab Spring confirm his perspective's contribution to constitutional theory.

Notă biografică

Nimer Sultany is Senior Lecturer in Public Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He holds an SJD from Harvard Law School; an LL.M. from University of Virginia; an LL.M. from Tel Aviv University; and an LL.B. from the College of Management. He was a recipient of the British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship and the Baldy Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Legal Studies at SUNY Buffalo Law School.