Florian F Hoffmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 1033688 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Florian F Hoffmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Florian F |
| FAMILY NAME | Hoffmann |
| SIGNATURE | HOFFMANN F F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9270-1319 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Unruly Practices at the Border
The aim of this Article is to present a general and nonexhaustive overview of the legal infrastructures that configure cross-border movement in Latin America. It draws on the mobility approach, regime interaction, and—legal—infrastructural studies, which, together, provide a tentative analytical framework for the legal infrastructuring processes that we observe around border regulation in Latin America, an, arguably, understudied but core mobilit…
Beyond the normative impasse of environmental migration
The article draws on the concept of legal infrastructures and infrastructuring processes in the context of the ongoing discussion on the (legal) framing of environmental migration. It lays out why the entanglement of empirical and normative indeterminacy in environmental migration forces opens the door to a transdisciplinary and multidimensional perspective. It explores how framing environmental migration in terms of legal mobility infrastructure…
Human Rights and Development
The chapter charts the historical entanglement of human rights and both development discourse and policy as well as the ‘law and development’ movement from its antecedents in the ‘right to development’ and to the dominance of today’s rights-based development. It then illustrates the complexities of rights-based development policy with an analysis of Brazil’s Structural Cooperation in Health initiative. It concludes with an outlook on ‘rights and …
Transformation by Decree? A (Brief) Reflection on the 'Directive Constitution' (Constituição Dirigente) in Brazil
Coined originally by the great constitutional law scholar José Gomes Canotilho in the aftermath the post-revolutionary Portuguese constitution of 1974, the concept of a constituição dirigente ('directive constitution') has found some expression in the Brazilian (re-democratization) constitution of 1988 (CF88), which contains a number of injunctions and mandates aimed at 'directing' (primarily) the legislature towards the enactment of a wide-range…
Mobility and legal infrastructure for Ukrainian refugees
The scale and speed of forced displacement following the Russian invasion on 24 February 2022 has been staggering. At the time of writing, an estimated 7 million have been internally and displaced and more than 5 million have fled Ukraine for another country – making it the largest refugee crisis in European history since the Second World War.1 The vast majority have arrived in neighbouring EU countries. In the course of 2 weeks, Poland alone rec…
Corrupting Democracy? Interrogating the Role of Law in the Fight against Corruption and its Impact on (Democratic) Politics
"Law and Politics in Africa, Asia and Latin America" analyses legal and constitutional developments in all states or regions outside of Europe as well as their regional and international integration. Founded in 1968 and inspired by decolonization and the idea of a cooperative new beginning, the Journal also promotes a special interest in contributions on 'Law and development'. The journal aims to provide a forum for a variety of perspectives on t…
Border Regimes and Pandemic Law in Time of Covid-19
COVID-19 has had a profound impact on migrants and refugees the world over. Their pre-existing vulnerabilities were immediately exacerbated as national health systems were often overwhelmed and many disease control measures were either inaccessible to them or had disproportionate socio-economic effects. But migrants and refugees have also been framed as prima facie causes for the transboundary spread of the virus, and public health exception and …
Memento Mori
The paper contrasts two complementary ways of conceptualising death in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, notably death-in-the-plural, which involves death as an objective and collective phenomenon that occurs on the level of whole populations, and death-in-the-singular, which involves the ways in which individuals and communities deal ‘subjectively’ with death. It reconstructs how the sudden ‘breaking in’ of death as it occurs during …
Counter-disciplining the Dual Agenda
This article charts the trajectory of the interdisciplinary study of International Law (IL) and International Relations (IR), (re-)assessing how this interdisciplinarity has been framed within each discipline. It reflects on the different ways ahead that rise from these positions, suggesting an as yet little explored path which begins with a meta-theoretical conversation on the very terms of IR/IL interdisciplinarity
International Legalism and International Politics
This chapter attempts to measure the gap between law and politics, in a recapitulation of where the liberal project of international law stands, as framed within the tensions evident in the international lawyers’ professional preference for legal objectivism and political agnosticism and, on the other hand, their equally professional unwillingness to openly admit to this preference. Legalism represents that gap, yet it is curiously everywhere and…
Twin Siblings
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A transplantabilidade jurídica em matéria de Direitos Humanos
O artigo analisa a literatura sobre os transplantes jurídicos a fim de conceituar a transplantabilidade dos direitos humanos. Discute os desafios que normas públicas como direitos humanos, enraizadas nos sistemas jurídicos e sociais de cada pais, enfrentam em relação à transplantação, e aponta para uma possível solução no conceito de 'irritantes legais' desenvolvido no âmbito da teoria sistêmica do direito por Gunther Teubner na base dos escritos…
Gentle Civilizer Decayed? Moving (Beyond) International Law
Courting Social Justice
This book is a five-country empirical study of the causes and consequences of social and economic rights litigation. Detailed studies of Brazil, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, and South Africa present systematic and nuanced accounts of court activity on social and economic rights in each country. The book develops new methodologies for analyzing the sources of and variation in social and economic rights litigation, explains why actors are now turning…
A Voice for Human Rights
Fostering Human Rights Accountability
In recent years, the UN has assumed a widening scope of responsibilities and has gradually been transformed from an intergovernmental organization to a global governance mechanism with an ever greater direct impact on individuals. This entails that the UN is also, in principle, capable of violating human rights and occasionally does so in different operational contexts. While this has raised demands for greater UN accountability, Hoffmann and Még…
Mobility and legal infrastructure for Ukrainian refugees
The scale and speed of forced displacement following the Russian invasion on 24 February 2022 has been staggering. At the time of writing, an estimated 7 million have been internally and displaced and more than 5 million have fled Ukraine for another country – making it the largest refugee crisis in European history since the Second World War.1 The vast majority have arrived in neighbouring EU countries. In the course of 2 weeks, Poland alone rec…
Fostering Human Rights Accountability
In recent years, the UN has assumed a widening scope of responsibilities and has gradually been transformed from an intergovernmental organization to a global governance mechanism with an ever greater direct impact on individuals. This entails that the UN is also, in principle, capable of violating human rights and occasionally does so in different operational contexts. While this has raised demands for greater UN accountability, Hoffmann and Még…
Memento Mori
The paper contrasts two complementary ways of conceptualising death in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, notably death-in-the-plural, which involves death as an objective and collective phenomenon that occurs on the level of whole populations, and death-in-the-singular, which involves the ways in which individuals and communities deal ‘subjectively’ with death. It reconstructs how the sudden ‘breaking in’ of death as it occurs during …
Counter-disciplining the Dual Agenda
This article charts the trajectory of the interdisciplinary study of International Law (IL) and International Relations (IR), (re-)assessing how this interdisciplinarity has been framed within each discipline. It reflects on the different ways ahead that rise from these positions, suggesting an as yet little explored path which begins with a meta-theoretical conversation on the very terms of IR/IL interdisciplinarity
Fostering Human Rights Accountability
In recent years, the UN has assumed a widening scope of responsibilities and has gradually been transformed from an intergovernmental organization to a global governance mechanism with an ever greater direct impact on individuals. This entails that the UN is also, in principle, capable of violating human rights and occasionally does so in different operational contexts. While this has raised demands for greater UN accountability, Hoffmann and Még…
A Voice for Human Rights
Courting Social Justice
This book is a five-country empirical study of the causes and consequences of social and economic rights litigation. Detailed studies of Brazil, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, and South Africa present systematic and nuanced accounts of court activity on social and economic rights in each country. The book develops new methodologies for analyzing the sources of and variation in social and economic rights litigation, explains why actors are now turning…
Gentle Civilizer Decayed? Moving (Beyond) International Law
A transplantabilidade jurídica em matéria de Direitos Humanos
O artigo analisa a literatura sobre os transplantes jurídicos a fim de conceituar a transplantabilidade dos direitos humanos. Discute os desafios que normas públicas como direitos humanos, enraizadas nos sistemas jurídicos e sociais de cada pais, enfrentam em relação à transplantação, e aponta para uma possível solução no conceito de 'irritantes legais' desenvolvido no âmbito da teoria sistêmica do direito por Gunther Teubner na base dos escritos…
International Legalism and International Politics
This chapter attempts to measure the gap between law and politics, in a recapitulation of where the liberal project of international law stands, as framed within the tensions evident in the international lawyers’ professional preference for legal objectivism and political agnosticism and, on the other hand, their equally professional unwillingness to openly admit to this preference. Legalism represents that gap, yet it is curiously everywhere and…
Twin Siblings
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Counter-disciplining the Dual Agenda
This article charts the trajectory of the interdisciplinary study of International Law (IL) and International Relations (IR), (re-)assessing how this interdisciplinarity has been framed within each discipline. It reflects on the different ways ahead that rise from these positions, suggesting an as yet little explored path which begins with a meta-theoretical conversation on the very terms of IR/IL interdisciplinarity
Border Regimes and Pandemic Law in Time of Covid-19
COVID-19 has had a profound impact on migrants and refugees the world over. Their pre-existing vulnerabilities were immediately exacerbated as national health systems were often overwhelmed and many disease control measures were either inaccessible to them or had disproportionate socio-economic effects. But migrants and refugees have also been framed as prima facie causes for the transboundary spread of the virus, and public health exception and …
Memento Mori
The paper contrasts two complementary ways of conceptualising death in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, notably death-in-the-plural, which involves death as an objective and collective phenomenon that occurs on the level of whole populations, and death-in-the-singular, which involves the ways in which individuals and communities deal ‘subjectively’ with death. It reconstructs how the sudden ‘breaking in’ of death as it occurs during …
Corrupting Democracy? Interrogating the Role of Law in the Fight against Corruption and its Impact on (Democratic) Politics
"Law and Politics in Africa, Asia and Latin America" analyses legal and constitutional developments in all states or regions outside of Europe as well as their regional and international integration. Founded in 1968 and inspired by decolonization and the idea of a cooperative new beginning, the Journal also promotes a special interest in contributions on 'Law and development'. The journal aims to provide a forum for a variety of perspectives on t…
Mobility and legal infrastructure for Ukrainian refugees
The scale and speed of forced displacement following the Russian invasion on 24 February 2022 has been staggering. At the time of writing, an estimated 7 million have been internally and displaced and more than 5 million have fled Ukraine for another country – making it the largest refugee crisis in European history since the Second World War.1 The vast majority have arrived in neighbouring EU countries. In the course of 2 weeks, Poland alone rec…
Human Rights and Development
The chapter charts the historical entanglement of human rights and both development discourse and policy as well as the ‘law and development’ movement from its antecedents in the ‘right to development’ and to the dominance of today’s rights-based development. It then illustrates the complexities of rights-based development policy with an analysis of Brazil’s Structural Cooperation in Health initiative. It concludes with an outlook on ‘rights and …
Transformation by Decree? A (Brief) Reflection on the 'Directive Constitution' (Constituição Dirigente) in Brazil
Coined originally by the great constitutional law scholar José Gomes Canotilho in the aftermath the post-revolutionary Portuguese constitution of 1974, the concept of a constituição dirigente ('directive constitution') has found some expression in the Brazilian (re-democratization) constitution of 1988 (CF88), which contains a number of injunctions and mandates aimed at 'directing' (primarily) the legislature towards the enactment of a wide-range…
Unruly Practices at the Border
The aim of this Article is to present a general and nonexhaustive overview of the legal infrastructures that configure cross-border movement in Latin America. It draws on the mobility approach, regime interaction, and—legal—infrastructural studies, which, together, provide a tentative analytical framework for the legal infrastructuring processes that we observe around border regulation in Latin America, an, arguably, understudied but core mobilit…
Beyond the normative impasse of environmental migration
The article draws on the concept of legal infrastructures and infrastructuring processes in the context of the ongoing discussion on the (legal) framing of environmental migration. It lays out why the entanglement of empirical and normative indeterminacy in environmental migration forces opens the door to a transdisciplinary and multidimensional perspective. It explores how framing environmental migration in terms of legal mobility infrastructure…
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