Sociology of constitutions: a paradoxical perspective / edited by Alberto Febbrajo and Giancarlo Corsi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Alberto Febbrajo, Giancarlo Corsi -- On paradoxes in constitutions / Giancarlo Corsi -- Exogenous self-binding : how social subsystems externalise their foundational paradoxes in the process of constitutionalisation / Gunther Teubner -- Promise as premise : rewriting the paradox of constitutional reasoning / Ino Augsberg -- On the binding nature of constitutions / Hans-Georg Moeller -- Constitutionalism and legal pluralism / Alberto Febbrajo -- The sociological origins of global constitutional law / Chris Thornhill -- Constitutionalism and globalisation : a disputed relationship / Cesare Pinelli -- 'Cross-constitutionalism' and sustainable comparison / Michele Carducci -- Towards the constitution of networks? / Karl-Heinz Ladeur -- Standards of 'good governance' and peripheral constitutionalism : the case of post-accession romania / Bogdan Iancu -- The organization of market expectations beyond legality : an Argentinian case / Matías Dewey -- De-constitutionalizing Latin America : particularism and universalism in a constitutional perspective / Aldo Mascareño -- Paradoxes of transconstitutionalism in Latin America / Marcelo Neves -- The constitution in the work of Niklas Luhmann / Giancarlo Corsi -- The issue of the constitution in Luhmann's card index system : reading the traces / Johannes F.K. Schmidt.