Announcement

Please note that there will be no further volumes to the ConWEB series as of 2010. ConWEB is being turned into a full paper journal named “Global Constitutionalism -  Democarcy, Human Rights and the Rule of Law”, published by Cambridge University Press. Please find below the call for papers, where you find all information about the new journal and the submission guidelines.

Global Constitutionalism creates a forum for interdisciplinary scholarship on constitutionalism in and beyond the state.

Global Constitutionalism seeks to gain a deeper understanding and more sophisticated perspective on the foundations, limitations and principles of political order and their dynamics over time on a global scale. The journal is interested in work that refers to constitutionalism as a template for empirical, conceptual or normative research on past, present and future political and legal practices, within and beyond the state.

Constitutionalism as we understand it refers to a reference frame for interdisciplinary research with a particular focus: Constitutionalism in a wide sense is associated with the study of the constitutive elements of legal and political practice that are central for the assessment of its legality or legitimacy. Constitutionalism in a narrower modern sense focuses on the basic ideas relating to justice (such as human rights), procedural fairness and participation (e.g. democracy) and the rule of law as they relate to institutional practices and policies in and beyond the state.

Global Constitutionalism is not focused on the establishment of a world constitution organizing a global polity. Instead the reference to global constitutionalism signifies three things: First, the journal’s commitment to highlight legal and political practices beyond the state, providing a distinct perspective on international relations and international law. Second, the recognition that legal and political processes on the domestic and international level are deeply connected, challenging the heuristic usefulness of cabining off and strictly separating the domain of the national from the domain of the international.  With the spread of liberal democratic constitutionalism on the state level after WWII and the end of the Cold War, and the emergence and deepening of transnational governance practices, constitutionalism has provided the basic vocabulary, conceptual resources and ideas that have become the focal point for analyzing, assessing, constructing and contesting legal and political practices both within and beyond the state. Third, there are intellectually challenging new approaches to constitutionalism and democracy from a comparative perspective.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the journal’s managing editor Sassan Gholiagha. His email address is: sassan.gholiagha(at)wiso.uni-hamburg.de

Sassan Gholiagha

For the editors:

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Mattias Kumm, WZB Berlin and NYU Law

Miguel Poiares Maduro, EUI Law

Anthony F. Lang Jr., St. Andrews Politics/IR

Antje Wiener, Hamburg Politics/IR

James Tully, Victoria Politics/Theory (as consulting editor)

Call for Papers

Global Constitutionalism –  Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law

A new journal – forthcoming in March 2012

Global Constitutionalism –  Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law (GlobCon) seeks to promote a deeper understanding on the foundations, limitations and principles of political order and their dynamics over time on a global scale. The journal is interested in work that refers to constitutionalism as a template for empirical, conceptual or normative research on past, present and future political and legal practices, within and beyond the state.

Constitutionalism is understood here not as the study of a legal document, but as a reference frame for interdisciplinary research with a particular focus. Constitutionalism in a wide sense is associated with the study of the constitutive elements of legal and political practice that are central for the assessment of its legality or legitimacy. Constitutionalism does not presuppose the existence of a written constitution. It merely presupposes the interplay between social and institutional practices in which claims to legality and, therefore, legitimate authority, and democracy are central. Constitutionalism analyses the role of fundamental norms, the type of actors, and the institutions and procedures through which legal and political decisions are made.  In a more narrow modern sense constitutionalism focuses on the basic ideas relating to justice (such as human rights), procedural fairness and participation (e.g. democracy) and the rule of law as they relate to institutional practices and policies in and beyond the state.

GlobCon invites submissions from scholars of International Law, Political Science, International Relations, Comparative Constitutional Law, Comparative Politics, Political Theory and Philosophy for its first issue to be published in January 2012. GlobCon is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal that seeks to develop interdisciplinary discourse about global constitutionalism. It welcomes submissions on a wide range of topics related to constitutionalism, human rights, democracy and the rule of law.

The Journal's editorial board is comprised of scholars from International Law, International Relations, International Political Theory and Philosophy: Mathias Albert, Richard Bellamy, Seyla Benhabib, Armin v. Bogdandy, John Borrows,  Jutta Brunnée, Michael Byers, Carlos Closa, Gordon Christie, Jean L. Cohen, Grainne de Burca, Avigail Eisenberg, Michelle Everson, Ezzedine Choukri Fishere, Rainer Forst, Friedrich Kratochwil, Jürgen Neyer, Konrad Ng, Nicholas G. Onuf, Robert Post, Susan Rose-Ackerman , Kim Rubenstein, Joanne Scott, Rainer Schmalz-Bruns, Jo Shaw, Quentin Skinner, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Stephen Toope, Neil Walker, Jeremy Webber and Michael Zürn. 

MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION

Manuscripts are to be submitted through the online submission system available via http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gcn

GlobCon will review articles between 7,000 and 15,000 words (including notes and bibliography). Brevity is encouraged and shorter papers will be advantaged in acceptance decisions. Please include a word count with submission, along with an abstract of approximately 200 words which is not repeated from the paper itself. Please include up to five keywords for the article. Authors should submit both a complete version of the manuscript and an anonymous version, stripped of all identifying references to the author(s) that can be sent to reviewers. The citation style of the submission should either be Chicago or Harvard Style. Please do not use endnotes. Submissions are accepted now.

Any enquiries can be sent via email to the journal’s managing editor Mr. Sassan Gholiagha. His E-Mail address is sassan.gholiagha(at)wiso.uni-hamburg.de  

Further information can be found on http://journals.cambridge.org/GlobCon