Law as Passion

Carina Calabria is Visiting Professor at the University Federal of Pernambucos' School of Law. She holds a PhD (University of Manchester, UK) and a LLM (University of Brasilia, Brazil). She is a former researcher of the Project "A Sociology of the Transnational Constitution", funded with a Research Grant by the European Research Council, and was a Visiting Professional of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (2015). Miguel Nogueira de Brito is Associate Professor at the University of Lisbon's School of Law and senior researcher at CIDP-Lisbon Centre of Research in Public Law where he coordinates the area of Constitutional Law. His publications include A Justificacao da Propriedade Privada numa Democracia Constitucional (Coimbra, 2007) e As Andancas de Candido (Lisboa, 2011), as well as multiple articles on constitutional law and theory. Fabio Portela L. Almeida is Clerk at the Brazilian Superior Labour Court. He holds a Doctor of Law Degree, a LLM and a MPhil (University of Brasilia, Brazil). He conducted research as a Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School (2013/2014) and postdoctoral research as a Visiting Scholar at Europa-Universitat Flensburg (2019).

Part I - Law, State and Global Crisis: Hauke Brunkhorst, The capitalist state in the crisis global capitalism.- Kimmo Nuotio, Towards a Global Rule of Law: Global law in the Context of Law and Development Studies.- Part II - Symbolic constitutionalization: Darío Rodríguez,  Symbolic constitutionalization and constitutional debate in Chile.- Pablo Holmes and Maria Eduarda Dantas, A (more) cosmopolitan sociology of constitutions: Marcelo Neves' theory of symbolic constitutionalization.- Alexandre Douglas Zaidan de Carvalho, Constitutionalism seen from the Periphery: a perspective about the contribution of Marcelo Neves.- Fábio Portela L. Almeida, Democratic Legitimation without Inclusion: An Evolutionary Approach to Brazilian Societal Crisis.- Part III - Transconstitutionalism: Maurício Palma, Trans-anticonstitutionalism.- Ramon Negócio, Between transconstitutionalism and Technical Practices: Normative Challenges for Brazilian Legal Order.- Miguel Nogueirade Brito, Between Systemic and Agency Normativity: The Constitutionalism of Marcelo Neves.- Part IV - Systems theory and Public Law: Nathaly Mancilla Órdenes and Gustavo Zatelli Correa, From the World-System to World Society: a few notes on the necessity of historical reconstruction.- Luís Heleno Terrinha, The intersystemic rationality of Administrative Law: reflexiveness, structural and environmental observation.