270 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

270 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

270 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This interdisciplinary collection examines the significance of constitutions in setting the terms and conditions upon which market economies operate. With some important exceptions, most notably from the tradition of Latin American constitutionalism, scholarship on constitutional law has paid negligible attention to questions of how constitutions relate to economic phenomena. A considerable... Read more

Introduction

Anna Chadwick, Eleonora Lozano, Andrés Palacios Lleras, Javier Solana

Part 1 – The Constitutional Embeddedness of Markets 

1. The Constitutional Disembeddedness of Markets

Anna Chadwick 

2. Law of Nature, Law of Man: Economic Theories of Constitutions and the Normative Question

Beniamino Callegari

Part 2 – Markets, Constitutions, and Inequality: Legal Regimes

3. The Law and Political Economy of Health Care in the United States

Ximena Benavides

4. Fiscal Sustainability and its Jurisprudential Evolution: the Fraight Dialogue Between the Economy and the Law

Eleonora Lozano Rodriguez

5. The Paradoxes of a Progressive Constitution and Neoliberal Food Regime

Ramón Fogel, Roni Paredes & Sintya Valdez

6. Protecting Property: Crime Control and Constitutional Organisation of Neoliberal Governance in Colombia

Esteban Isaza, Julio C. Montañez & Fernando León Tamayo Arboleda

7. Market Efficiency as a Directive Principle of EU Monetary Policy

Javier Solana

8. Rethinking the Historic Models of the Role of Constitutions in Shaping Patterns of Inequality: Iberian Constitutionalism, Common Property, and Colonialism

Julia McClure

9. The Three Globalizations of Law and the Constitutional Protection of Property Rights Over Land in Colombia and China

Jorge Andrés Contreras Calderón

10. Private Property, Popular Sovereignty, and the Constitutional Foundations of Economic Regulation in the Americas 

Andrés Palacios Lleras

11. Multinationals, Inequality, and a Competition Law Response: Lessons from the East India Company

Amber Darr

Afterword: Markets, Constitutions, and Inequality in the 21st Century

Andrés Palacios Lleras

Biography

Anna Chadwick is Lecturer in International Law and Legal Theory at the University of Glasgow, UK.

Eleonora Lozano-Rodríguez is the current Dean of the Law School at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia.

Andrés Palacios-Lleras is Principal Professor of Law at the Faculty of Jurisprudence of the Universidad Del Rosario, Colombia.

Javier Solana is Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law at the University of Glasgow, UK.