Call for Papers - Dossier "Critical Constitutional Law: The Theory of Encryption of Power"
THE JOURNAL OF FACULDADE MINEIRA DE DIREITO
Dossier 1st Semester, 2020
Critical Constitutional Law: The Theory of Encryption of Power
Up until now, the "theory of the encryption of power" has been treated as a theory proper to political philosophy and specifically as an ontology. The aim of the dossier is to open the theory up to new disciplinary interventions and test its pragmatic capacity, specifically within traditions of critical legal studies. To achieve this, the editors would like to invite authors to reflect upon various aspects of critical traditions of contemporary law (studies of decoloniality, feminisms, radical democracy, human rights´ effectiveness, public administration´s efficiency, commonwealth and the commons, critical legal studies and critical legal thinking) in order to form a critical mass that allows the theory of encryption to be consolidated within a more comprehensive and vigorous disciplinary perspective.
Insofar, the ultimate purpose of the dossier is to link up complex issues of law, including the following: 1) the ambivalent relationship between political power and the legal order (rule of law); 2) the possibility of reconciling the concept of democracy and its exercise with human rights as an anti-majoritarian limit; 3) the possible contradictions (and their solutions) between constitutions and the concept of the hidden people; 4) the capacity of contemporary hermeneutical theories to guarantee the effectiveness of the law (administrative, international, criminal, civil, business, etc.); 5) the paradox of constituent and constituted power through the theory of encryption of power.
A crucial topic is the role of experts (jurists, economists, political scientists) in shaping the languages with which we identify reality and therefore the capacity for appropriation of political constitutions by what we call “the social” or “the political”. Here the question that beats at the heart of the matter is whether what we understand by democracy, the political body and fundamental rights are terms and institutions available for all forms of beingness (relations of structure-agency) or whether they are rather a ground reserved for specialized and hierarchical languages and structures that are therefore encrypted.
GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS (link to the Journal Website)
Manuscripts may be submitted in English, Portuguese, or Spanish. The reviews will be in the language of submission. Non-native speakers are encouraged to have their paper proofread and edited by a native speaker. The Journal will reject articles if the level of the chosen language is insufficient.
Please be aware that the Journal considers all manuscripts on the strict condition that they have not been submitted anywhere else, that they have not been already published, nor that they are under review for publication or are currently in press elsewhere.
Articles should be submitted exclusively online through the Journal Website.
All the manuscripts must respect the Journal´s editorial rules, otherwise they will be rejected solely on these grounds. The reviews will follow the peer double blind review guidelines of Qualis / CAPES. For evaluation and publication purposes, the publishers may also consider manuscripts of related themes submitted in the general flow, including those that have been already approved.
The deadline for submission is June 8th, 2020.
For further information of this dossier, please contact the special editors:
Professor Marinella Machado Araújo: marinella@pucminas.br
Professor Ricardo Sanín-Restrepo: ricardo.sanin@itam.mx
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ISSN 2318-7999 (online)
