TY  - UNPD
A1  - Teubner, Gunther
T1  - Societal constitutionalism: nine variations on a theme by David Sciulli
T2  - Arbeitspapier / Fachbereich Rechtswissenschaft, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main = Research paper / Faculty of Law, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Nr. 2016,10
N2  - Constitutionalization beyond the nation state can be observed as an evolutionary process that leads in two quite different directions: (1) constitutions evolve in transnational political processes outside the nation state; (2) simulta-neously, constitutions evolve outside international politics in global society’s ‘private’ sectors. What, however, is the specifically societal element in societal constitutionalism? This is currently the object of a controversy regarding the subjects of non-state constitutions, their origin, their legitimization, their scope, and their internal structures. This article interprets the controversy as a theme with a number of variations. What is the distinctive ‘compositional principle’ in each particular variation? Which problems become evident in its ‘development’? What are its most valuable ‘motifs’? The article starts with David Sciulli’s theme of societal constitutionalism. Then it presents six variations on Sciulli. In a first group, constitutionalization is perceived as the expansion of a single rationality into all spheres of society. In a second group, the motif of the unity of the consti-tution can still be heard, despite the essential pluralism of societal constitution-alism. In the final movement, three further variations will then reprise and devel-op further the most important motifs, in a resumption of the original theme.
T3  - Arbeitspapiere / Fachbereich Rechtswissenschaft, Goethe-Universität = Research paper / Faculty of Law, Goethe University - 2016, 10 
KW  - transnational constitutionalism
KW  - societal
KW  - constitiutionalism
KW  - legal pluralism
KW  - David Sciulli
Y1  - 2016
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/39025
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-390256
N1  - Published in: Blokker, Paul/Thornhill, Chris (ed.), Sociological Constitutionalism, Cambridge University Press 2016.
PB  - Goethe-Univ., Fachbereich Rechtswiss.
CY  - Frankfurt am Main
ER  -