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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Social Movements and the Legal Field: Becoming-Constituent
Beteiligte:
Chiaramonte, Xenia
Erschienen:
Brill, 2019
Erschienen in:Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law Online
Sprache:
Nicht zu entscheiden
DOI:
10.1163/18757413_022001015
ISSN:
1389-4633;
1875-7413
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<jats:p>The relationship between social movements and the legal field is controversial and complex. This paper begins by recognizing that the concept of social movement does not belong to legal doctrine and then synthetically reconstruct the relevance of it for a legal understanding. In fact, even if this concept is not formally taken into account by constitutions or by legal codes, a socio-legal approach underscores the need for the comprehension and inclusion of collective phenomena into legal theory. First, the paper explores the way in which ‘social movement’ has been taken up and translated in the legal field through the concept of social change and constitutional change. Second, this research goes through various cases in which social movements use law strategically, from the phenomenon of cause lawyering to the litigation strategy. Finally, it stands for a theoretical understanding of the role of social movements in legal theory as a lively expression of ‘becoming-constituent’.</jats:p>