Do Social Rights Deserve a Special Constitutional Protection? On Luigi Ferrajoli’s and Frank Michelman’s Democratic Theory

• Autores: Valerio Fabbrizi
• Localización: Jura Gentium: Rivista di filosofia del diritto internazionale e della politica globale, ISSN-e 1826-8269, Vol. 15, Nº. 1, 2018, págs. 46-75
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Within contemporary democratic constitutionalism, social rights are assumed as one of the most debated issues. This article offers an insight into the question about a possible constitutionalization of social rights, by proposing an analysis of such an issue within the liberal-democratic constitutional theory. The key question of this paper asks whether social rights should deserve a special constitutional protection or not. Thus, the purpose of this article is to give an answer to such a question, by comparing the Italian legal scholar Luigi Ferrajoli with Frank Michelman, two of the most distinguished contemporary constitutional theorists.