No. 111 (2017): septiembre-diciembre

Published: 2017-12-11

STUDIES

Open Parliament: A view inspired by the working principles of the Parliamentary Chambers

Elviro Aranda Álvarez

13-43
The legal-political statute of the deputy: Between party loyalty and the loyalty to its electorate

María Holgado González

45-65
Constitutional reform and social rights: The need for a new paradigm in Spanish public law

Juli Ponce Solé

67-98
The constitutional transcendence of the poor control of the autonomous decree law

Ignacio González García

99-124
Contemporary democracy. Myths, veils and (presumed) realities

José Tudela Aranda

125-152

NOTES

The parliamentary election of the president of the Government in Spain: Regulatory analysis, institutional stability, and proposal for reform of article 99.5 of the Spanish Constitution

Óscar Mateos y de Cabo

155-184
Partisan discipline in the Congress of Deputies: the Spanish legal system and the statutes of the parties

Gema Sánchez Medero, Juan Carlos Cuevas Lanchares

185-219

JURISPRUDENCE

Activity of the Constitutional Court: List of rulings handed down during the second four-month period of 2017

Ascensión Elvira Perales, Ana Espinosa Díaz, Emilio Pajares Montolío, María Fraile Ortiz, Yolanda Gómez Lugo, Laura Baamonde Gómez

223-255
Doctrine of the Constitutional Court during the second four-month period of 2017

Juan Carlos Duque Villanueva, Carlos Ortega Carballo, Herminio Losada González, Tomás de la Quadra-Salcedo Janini

257-304

JURISPRUDENCE. CRITICAL STUDIES

The revival of the preemption. A rupture in our centralized model of judicial review?

Tomás de la Quadra-Salcedo Janini

307-340
A still recent sample of the current ius European jurisprudence of the German Federal Constitutional Court (GFCC)

Antonio López Castillo

341-378
Comments on Spanish oficial secrets legislation in view of the District of Columbia Court of appeals (U.S.) Judgement of 21 May 2013

Salvador A. Soto Lostal

379-412

BOOK REVIEWS

The use and abuse of decree laws. A proposal for contitutional reinterpretation

Ignacio Astarloa Huarte-Mendicoa

415-430
Adolf Julius Merkl’s contributions to constitutional law

Xabier Arzoz Santisteban

431-447
Arbitrario, arbitraire, arbitrary

Antonio Jiménez-Blanco Carrillo de Albornoz

449-455