Some Remarks on Book Critical Constitutionalism: Ideas for Constitutional Transition in the Post-COVID-19 Era by Diego Valadés

Peter Vyšný

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In: Societas et iurisprudentia • 2023 • Volume 11 • Issue 3 • Pages 70-77 • ISSN 1339-5467

Abstract: The present paper is a review essay focused on the book – scientific monograph Critical Constitutionalism: Ideas for Constitutional Transition in the Post-COVID-19 Era written by Mexican legal scholar Diego Valadés in year 2021. The book is a brief but incisive analysis of how Mexico (mis)managed the global COVID-19 pandemics. The author showed that many actions and measures taken by the Mexican State during the state of emergency declared due to the COVID-19 pandemics were problematic for various reasons, both constitutional/legal and extraconstitutional/extralegal ones, and resulted from long-term, serious and complex shortcomings of the Mexican political system, primarily based on the Mexican Federal Constitution of 1917 and related federal legislation. However, the author’s criticism of the Mexican constitutional/political system is constructive, as he makes useful suggestions to overcome (or, at least, to reduce) its shortcomings throughout the book.

Key Words: Constitutional Law; Critical Constitutionalism; Constitutional Transition; Global COVID-19 Pandemics; Diego Valadés; Book Critical Constitutionalism: Ideas for Constitutional Transition in the Post-COVID-19 Era; Mexico.

ORCID: ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5132-1291

DOI: https://doi.org/10.31262/1339-5467/2023/11/3/70-77

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VYŠNÝ, P. Some Remarks on Book Critical Constitutionalism: Ideas for Constitutional Transition in the Post-COVID-19 Era by Diego Valadés. Societas et iurisprudentia [online]. 2023, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 70-77 [cit. 2020-01-01]. ISSN 1339-5467. Available at: https://doi.org/10.31262/1339-5467/2023/11/3/70-77.

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