Ana Van Liedekerke
Biographic Data
| ID | 6804700 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ana Van Liedekerke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ana |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Liedekerke |
| SIGNATURE | VAN LIEDEKERKE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8266-0656 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Ghost in the shell
The notion of constitutional identity rests on a seemingly inevitable tension: it is seen both as a source of inclusive social cohesion and as a potentially exclusionary concept invoked to justify populist claims and divergent interpretations of the rule of law and human rights. This has led legal scholars to redirect the understanding of constitutional identity towards an exclusively legal and functional definition in line with the formulation o…
Identity and difference
This article offers a critical literature review on the debate on constitutional identity, combining a synthesis of existing literature with a critical reframing of the concept’s theoretical and methodological foundations. While constitutional identity has become increasingly prominent in legal and political debates – particularly within the European Union – its meanings and functions remain contested. The article develops a typology of approache…
Prisoner of the Book. The Living Constitution and Jorge Luis Borges’ Book of Sand
This paper uses Jorge Luis Borges’ short story “The Book of Sand” (1975) to examine the aversion of Constitutional Originalists in the United States to the idea of the Constitution as a living text. The terror of the Living Constitution can be understood as the terror of a living book, with a meaning that is eternally shifting, displaying an animism with which the Constitution as a legal document is confronted. Contrasting Justice Antonin Scalia’…
Constitutions as Totems and Illiberal Constitutionalism as Hyper-Totemism
This article examines the community-forming role of constitutions by interpreting them as totems, drawing on the work of James Frazer, Sigmund Freud, and Émile Durkheim. It identifies three dimensions of totemic trust: the constitution as a collective point of reference facilitating integration, as a link of transgenerational continuity, and as protection against existential threat. It then shows how this trust is sustained in a totemic way throu…
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Ghost in the shell
The notion of constitutional identity rests on a seemingly inevitable tension: it is seen both as a source of inclusive social cohesion and as a potentially exclusionary concept invoked to justify populist claims and divergent interpretations of the rule of law and human rights. This has led legal scholars to redirect the understanding of constitutional identity towards an exclusively legal and functional definition in line with the formulation o…
Identity and difference
This article offers a critical literature review on the debate on constitutional identity, combining a synthesis of existing literature with a critical reframing of the concept’s theoretical and methodological foundations. While constitutional identity has become increasingly prominent in legal and political debates – particularly within the European Union – its meanings and functions remain contested. The article develops a typology of approache…
Prisoner of the Book. The Living Constitution and Jorge Luis Borges’ Book of Sand
This paper uses Jorge Luis Borges’ short story “The Book of Sand” (1975) to examine the aversion of Constitutional Originalists in the United States to the idea of the Constitution as a living text. The terror of the Living Constitution can be understood as the terror of a living book, with a meaning that is eternally shifting, displaying an animism with which the Constitution as a legal document is confronted. Contrasting Justice Antonin Scalia’…
Constitutions as Totems and Illiberal Constitutionalism as Hyper-Totemism
This article examines the community-forming role of constitutions by interpreting them as totems, drawing on the work of James Frazer, Sigmund Freud, and Émile Durkheim. It identifies three dimensions of totemic trust: the constitution as a collective point of reference facilitating integration, as a link of transgenerational continuity, and as protection against existential threat. It then shows how this trust is sustained in a totemic way throu…
Constitution (2 works) · Constitutional law (2 works) · Energy Law and Policy (2 works) · Judicial and Constitutional Studies (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Anarchism and Radical Politics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Borges, Kipling, and Jewish Identity (1 work) · Cognitive reframing (1 work)