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The making of constitutional democracy : from creation to application of law (2021)
Book
Sandro, P. (2022). The making of constitutional democracy : from creation to application of law. Oxford: Hart Publishing/Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509905249

This book addresses a palpable, yet widely neglected, tension in legal discourse. In our everyday legal practices – whether taking place in a courtroom, classroom, law firm, or elsewhere – we routinely and unproblematically talk of the activities of... Read More about The making of constitutional democracy : from creation to application of law.

Do you really mean it? Ouster clauses, judicial review reform, and the UK constitutionalism paradox (2021)
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Sandro, P. (2021). Do you really mean it? Ouster clauses, judicial review reform, and the UK constitutionalism paradox

The Conservative government’s response to the IRAL report has raised plenty of alarm bells from UK constitutional scholars. The widespread observation that the government’s judicial review reform plans appear to go well beyond what the Independent Pa... Read More about Do you really mean it? Ouster clauses, judicial review reform, and the UK constitutionalism paradox.

Unlocking legal validity. Some remarks on the artificial ontology of law (2018)
Book Chapter
Sandro, P. (2018). Unlocking legal validity. Some remarks on the artificial ontology of law. In J. Hage, P. Westerman, & S. Kirste (Eds.), Legal Validity and Soft Law (99-123). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77522-7_5

Following Kelsen’s influential theory of law, the concept of validity has been used in the literature to refer to different properties of law (such as existence, membership, bindingness, and more) and so it is inherently ambiguous. More importantly,... Read More about Unlocking legal validity. Some remarks on the artificial ontology of law.

To whom does the law speak? Canvassing a neglected picture of law’s interpretive field (2014)
Book Chapter
Sandro, P. (2015). To whom does the law speak? Canvassing a neglected picture of law’s interpretive field. In M. Araszkiewicz, P. Banas, T. Gizbert-Studnicki, & K. Pleszka (Eds.), Problems of Normativity, Rules and Rule-Following (265-280). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09375-8_20

Among the most common strategies underlying the so-called indeterminacy thesis is the following two-step argument: (1) that law is an interpretive practice, and that evidently legal actors more generally hold different (and competing) theories of mea... Read More about To whom does the law speak? Canvassing a neglected picture of law’s interpretive field.