Table of Contents

Introduction: the return of the material constitution Marco Goldoni and Michael A. Wilkinson; Part I. History: 1. The tradition of the material constitution in Western Marxism Marco Goldoni and Michael A. Wilkinson; 2. The soul of the state: the question of constitutional identity in Carl Schmitt's Verfassungslehre Jens Meierhenrich; 3. Laski's materialist analysis of the British constitution Martin Loughlin; 4. Rudolf Smend's legacy in German constitutional theory Tim Wihl; 5., The constitution in the material sense according to Costantino Mortati Lucia Rubinelli; 6. The material constitution of the dual State Lars Vinx; 7. 'A certain shadowy totality': in search of the material constitution of the United States Rob Hunter; 8. 'The material constitution in Greek constitutional thought' Nikolas Vagdoutis; 9. The constitution as social compromise: hybrid constitutionalisation and the legacy of Wolfgang Abendroth Kolja Möller; 10. 'Self-justifying law of constitutional law': the material constitution in Rudolf Wiethölter's critical systems theory Gunther Teubner; Part II. Challenges: 11. The material constitution and imperialism Eva Nanopoulos; 12. The material constitution of Federation Signe Rehling Larsen; 13. The materialist turn in constitutional thought Emilios Christodoulidis; 14. Three registers of the material constitution Neil Walker; 15. What matter(s)? a processual view of the material constitution Mariano Croce; 16. The material constitution and the rule of recognition Francesco Bilancia and Stefano Civitarese Matteucci; 17. Constitutional matter and form (an exploration of constitutional language) Denis Baranger; Part III. Analyses: 18. A material understanding of constitutional changes: revisiting 'constitutional maintenance' doctrines Graziella Romeo; 19. The material constitution in Latin American courts Mariana Velasco-Rivera and Joel Colón-Ríos; 20. A materialist analysis of the Indian constitution Sandipto Dasgupta; 21. China's material constitution Bui Ngoc Son; 22. The material constitution and extractive political economy: lessons from Mongolia Jennifer Lander; 23. The military in the material constitution of Turkey Tarik Olcay; 24. The material constitution of international investment law Jessica Lawrence and Tom Flynn; 25. The 'terrible' functional constitution of the European Union: 'sound money', economic freedom(s) and 'free competition' Agustin José Menéndez.

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About the Author

Marco Goldoni is Senior Lecturer in Legal Theory at Glasgow University. He is the author of The Legacy of Pluralism (2020, with M. Croce) and The Materiality of the Legal Order (2022). He is joint general editor of the journal Jurisprudence and co-editor of Law and Politics. Michael A. Wilkinson is Professor of Law at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He is the author of Authoritarian Liberalism and the Transformation of Modern Europe (2021). He has held visiting professorships at Cornell, Paris II, the National University of Singapore and Keio University. His work has been translated into Portuguese, Italian, Spanish and Turkish.