Showing papers by "Emilios Christodoulidis published in 2021"

‘It Is Not 30 Pesos, It Is 30 Years’: Reflections on the Chilean Crisis: Introduction:

Abstract: October 25th 2020 will come to pass as the day in which the Chilean people expressed their will to put an end to Pinochet’s legacy. The referendum held that day (in which 78% of voters approved the drafting of a new Constitution by a Constituent Assembly elected by the people) marks the beginning of the end of a period of almost half a century which began with the military coup against the democratic government of Salvador Allende on September 11th 1973, continued with 17 years of despotic rule and another 30 years of democratic government conducted under Pinochet’s Constitution. The ferocious riots triggered by a subway fare increase 1 year ago and the extraordinary protests that followed which brought millions onto the streets across the country and forced the government to concede the referendum, can only be understood within this historical framework. The papers in this section explore the causes of the constitutional crisis and the course that the events took since. They confront the historical trajectory of neoliberal legality, violently enacted during Pinochet’s dictatorship and institutionally consolidated during democracy. The central thesis, lucidly exposed in Daniela Accatino’s paper, is that the Chilean crisis is a transitional justice moment in which the past comes back to life in the form of a violent present which can only be overcome by reconstituting a hitherto fractured

The Redress of Law: Globalisation, Constitutionalism and Market Capture

Abstract: From a legal-philosophical point of view, The Redress of Law presents a critical analysis of a number of related doctrinal fields: constitutional, labour and EU Law Focusing on the organisation and protection of work, this book asks what it means to protect work as an essential aspect of human (individual and collective) flourishing This is an ambitious and highly sophisticated intervention in contemporary academic and political debates around a set of critically important questions connected to processes of globalisation and market integration The author redefines the nature of legal and political thought in an age in which market rationality has exceeded its classic domain and has come to pervade the organization of social and political life This restatement of critical legal theory is intended to defend the concept of constitutionalism and suggest new ways to deploy the law strategically