Sovereignty in Post-Sovereign Society

This book comprehends the persistence of sovereignty as a political and juridical concept in the post-sovereign social condition, and reformulates the concept and its persistence as part of the self-referential communication of the systems of positive law and politics. The author uses several contemporary European examples, developments and paradoxes and argues that the modern question of sovereignty permanently oscillating between de iure authority and de facto power cannot be discarded by theories of supranational and transnational globalized law and politics.

JiÅ(TM)í PÅ(TM)ibáÅ- is Professor of Law at Cardiff University, UK. He has published extensively in the areas of sociology of law, legal philosophy, constitutional and European comparative law, and theory of human rights. He is author of monographs Dissidents of Law (2002) and Legal Symbolism (2007), and editor of a number of books, including The Rule of Law in Central Europe (with J. Young, 1999), Law's New Boundaries (with D. Nelken, 2001) and Liquid Society and Its Law (2007). He has also published a collection of essays on contemporary art Pictures of Czech Postmodernism (2011).

Introduction; Part I Cases and Concepts; Chapter 1 Multiple Sovereignty in the EU; Chapter 2 Sovereignty, or Post-Sovereignty?; Part II Concepts and Theories; Chapter 3 Sovereignty and the Constitutional State; Chapter 4 No More Sovereignty?; Chapter 5 Power in Sovereignty and its Popular Legitimation; Part III Theories and Systems; Chapter 6 The Evolution of the EU's Political and Legal Autopoiesis; Chapter 7 Desiring a Democratic European Polity; Chapter 101 Postscript Sovereignty of Popular Memories;