The Challenge of Stability Niklas Luhmann's Early Political Sociology and Constitutional Adjudication in the United States and Germany

• Main Author: Shulman, Theodor (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Baden-Baden Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG 2023
• Series: Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht 322
• Subjects: LAQ; GPFC; Bundesverfassungsgericht; constitutional adjudication; countermajoritarian difficulty; constitutional law; funktionale Differenzierung; functional differentiation; Niklas Luhmann; Oberstes Gericht der Vereinigten Staaten; German Federal Constitutional Court; judicial politicization
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Niklas Luhmann's early systems-theoretical conception of functional differentiation holds both normative and empirical insights for our understanding of constitutional adjudication. For example, Luhmann's conception of legal autonomy may help to shed new light on the countermajoritarian di...