Between Constructivism and Immanentism

Guillaume Tusseau (1)

1 EdD - École de Droit de Sciences Po (Sciences Po)

No domain of the law seems to have escaped Bentham’s reformatory activity. Based on a self-proclaimed ‘genius for legislation’, his ambition was to create a ‘complete body of laws’ or a pannomion. Within this project, constitutional law especially deserves attention. Bentham was concerned with that domain from the very beginning of his career, which started with a criticism of the philosophy of human rights and the resounding A Fragment on Government, and which ended with Constitutional Code.

Mots clés: Constitutional Law; Jeremy Bentham.

Domaines: Droit

Guillaume Tusseau. Between Constructivism and Immanentism: Bentham’s Unsettled Conception of Constitutional Law. Philip Schofield; Xiaobo Zhai. Bentham on Democracy, Courts, and Codification, Cambridge University Press, pp.195-213, 2022, 9781009031745. ⟨hal-03875242⟩