PREFACE
I.
AN OVERVIEW OF THE RULE OF LAW IN SPAIN AFTER THE JULY 2023 ELECTIONS
1. LEGAL CONSTRUCTIVISM?
Manuel Aragón
2. PUIGDEMONT AND THE CONSTITUTION
Xavier Arbós Marín
3. WHO CARES?
Andres Betancor
4. THE DECONSTRUCTION OF THE LAW BY THE CONTRACT
José Esteve Pardo
5. IS THE RULE OF LAW IN SPAIN IN CRISIS?
Teresa Freixes
6. RULE OF LAW AND AMNESTY
Antonio Manuel Peña Freire
7. IS PRESIDENT SÁNCHEZ LEADING A NEW CONSTITUTIONAL THEORY?
Agustín Ruiz Robledo
II.
THE GENERAL UNCONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE AMNESTY
II.1.
THE UNCONSTITUTIONALITY OF ANY AMNESTY IN THE LIGHT OF THE SPANISH CONSTITUTION IN FORCE
8. THE CONSTITUTION DOES NOT ALLOW AMNESTY
Manuel Aragón
9. AMNESTY IN OUR LEGAL SYSTEM
José Luis Díez Ripollés
10. GENERAL PARDONS AND AMNESTIES
Enrique Gimbernat
11. IF THE GOVERNMENT WANTS TO GRANT AMNESTY TO PUIGDEMONT IT MUST REFORM THE CONSTITUTION
Inmaculada Ramos Tapia
Agustín Ruiz Robledo
12. FORGETTING AND FORGIVENESS IN THE CONSTITUTION
Miguel Ángel Recuerda Girela
13. UNCONSTITUTIONAL AMNESTY
Fernando Simón Yarza
14. CONSTITUTIONAL STATE AND AMNISTÍA
Javier Tajadura Tejada
15. ON WHETHER THE AMNESTY LAW VIOLATES THE RULE OF LAW
Rodrigo Tena
16. AMNESTY Á LA CARTE
Salvador Viada Bardají
17. THE AMNESTY AND THE BEAR OF PROFESSOR RECASÉNS
Virgilio Zapatero
II.2.
AMNESTY IN HISTORY AND IN THE CORTES GENERALES
18. AMNESTY WAS NOT REGULATED IN THE SPANISH CONSTITUTION ON PURPOSE
Ibor Fernandes Romero
19. AMNESTY AND THE SERFS OF THE GLOSS
Pablo de Lora
20. MEMORY, AMNESTY AND TRANSITION
Josu de Miguel Bárcena
21. AMNESTY AS A PAINFUL ANACHRONISM
Juan Antonio Ortega Díaz-Ambrona
22. CONDITIONAL AMNESTY
Miguel Satrústegui Gil-Delgado
II.3.
AMNESTY IN THE JURISPRUDENCE OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT
23. AMNESTY IN THE DOCTRINE OF THE SPANISH COURTS
Álvaro Redondo Hermida
24. DOES THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT UPHOLD THE AMNESTY?
Agustín Ruiz Robledo
II.4.
PREREQUISITES FOR AN AMNESTY LAW
25. AMNESTY, THE POWER AND NOT THE TRUTH
Daniel Berzosa
26. POLITICS, DEMOCRACY AND EXCEPTIONALITY: A LOOK FROM THE STATEMENT OF REASONS FOR THE BILL OF AMNESTY
Josep Maria Castellà Andreu
27. AN ARBITRARY AMNESTY
Javier Delgado Barrio
28. AN AMNESTY WITHOUT LEGAL BASIS
Alicia Gil Gil
29. AMNESTY? NOT ONE, BUT THREE QUESTIONS
Juan Antonio Lascuraín Sánchez
30. THE PUBLIC INTEREST IN AMNESTY
Gonzalo Quintero Olivares
31. THAT’S NO WAY TO GO
José M.ª Ruiz Soroa
32. NO REASONS FOR AN AMNESTY
Jesús-María Silva Sánchez
33. AMNESTY, OR IF YOU HAVE TO CHANGE, YOU CHANGE
Virgilio Zapatero
II.5.
DISCUSSION OF THE REASONS PUT FORWARD IN FAVOUR OF THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE AMNESTY
34. THE AMNESTY FALLACY
Manuel Atienza
35. AMNESTY AND ACADEMIC LACKEYS
Alfonso García Figueroa
36. CRITICISM OF THE SUMAR LEGAL OPINION ON AMNESTY
Enrique Gimbernat
37. THE ILLEGITIMATE AMNESTY (OR THE PROBLEM OF THE ABSENCE OF A CONSTITUTIONAL ENABLING CLAUSE)
Manuel Martínez Sospedra
38. BECCARIA, AMNESTY AND PROGRESS
Agustín Ruiz Robledo
III.
THE SPANISH AMNESTY FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF EUROPEAN LAW
39. THE CONSTITUTION, SPAIN AND EUROPE
Antonio Bar Cendón
40. AMNESTY BEFORE THE VENICE COMMISSION
Belén Becerril Atienza
41. AMNESTY LAW: THE SPANISH JUDGE AND THE EU
Jaime Lozano Ibañez
42. WILL EUROPE SAVE US FROM OURSELVES?
Araceli Mangas Martín
43. JUNTS’ CONDITIONS AND HIS IDEA OF LAW
Gonzalo Quintero Olivares
44. THE EUROPEAN CASE LAW ON AMNESTY
Álvaro Redondo Hermida
45. “ECONOMIC” AMNESTY AND EUROPEAN LAW
Javier Roldán Barbero
46. AMNESTY FROM THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE
Rafael Rubio
IV.
THE PARLIAMENTARY BILL FOR AN ORGANIC LAW ON AMNESTY FOR INSTITUTIONAL, POLITICAL AND SOCIAL NORMALISATION IN CATALONIA
47. THE PARLIAMENTARY BILL AMNESTY LAW AND THE RULE OF LAW
Segismundo Álvarez Royo-Villanova
48. A FALLACIOUS AMNESTY
Manuel Aragón
49. AMNESTY: A LAW OF FULL STOP… AND AFTER
Roberto L. Blanco Valdés
50. THE PROCÉS CONTINUES: NOW IT’S TIME FOR AMNESTY
Francesc de Carreras
51. AGAIN ON THE UNCONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE AMNESTY
Vicente Conde Martín de Hijas
52. WHY THIS AMNESTY DOES NOT FIT INTO OUR CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM
Francisco Javier Díaz Revorio
53. AMNESTY: THE REASONS FOR UNREASON
Tomás Ramón Fernández
54. AMNESTY AND CONSTITUTIONAL COURT
Germán Fernández Farreres
55. AMNESTY?
José Antonio García-Trevijano Garnica
56. CRITICISM OF THE PARLIAMENTARY BILL ORGANIC AMNESTY LAW
Enrique Gimbernat
57. AN UNDISCUSSED AND ARBITRARY AMNESTY LAW
José J. Jiménez Sánchez
58. THE UNJUSTIFICATION OF THE AMNESTY UNDER THE PROPORTIONALITY PRINCIPLE
David Martínez Zorrilla
59. THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF CONGRESS AND The Parliamentary Bill ORGANIC LAW ON AMNESTY
Elisa de la Nuez Sánchez-Cascado
60. THE AMNESTY LAW: PERSUADING, BUT NOT CONVINCING
Fabio Pascua Mateo
61. A MONSTROUS SELF-AMNESTY
Luis Rodríguez Ramos
62. THE SPECTRE OF AMNESTY MATERIALISES IN AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL LAW
Agustín Ruiz Robledo
63. I CONFESS… THAT I DON’T UNDERSTAND ANYTHING
Remedio Sánchez Ferriz
64. LAW OF IMPUNITY: AN X-RAY OF THE PARLIAMENTARY BILL FOR AN ORGANIC LAW ON AMNESTY FOR INSTITUTIONAL, POLITICAL AND SOCIAL NORMALISATION IN CATALONIA
Germán M. Teruel Lozano
65. THE CLUMSY CAUSE OF AMNESTY
Jesús Manuel Villegas Fernández
V.
THE HARASSMENT OF JUDGES
66. “THE WAR OF [AGAINST] THE JUDGES“
Antonio Bar Cendón
67. THE DEGRADATION OF THE RULE OF LAW AND FALSE LAWFARE
Vicente Garrido Mayol
68. JUDGES IN BERLIN
Juan Antonio Lascuraín Sánchez
69. AMNESTY AND LAWFARE: MAKE-UP AND EUPHEMISM
Gerardo Pérez Sánchez
70. AMNESTY: THE TROJAN HORSE AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION
Jorge Rodríguez-Zapata
71. LAWFARE AND POLITICAL NEOLANGUAGE
Jesús-María Silva Sánchez
72. THE ARCHITECT OF RUINS
Francisco Sosa Wagner and Mercedes Fuertes
73. EXHIBITION WITH NO REASON FOR AMNESTY
Jesús Zarzalejos Nieto
VI.
FIVE OUTLOOKS BEYOND THE LAW
74. APOLOGY FOR BETRAYAL; REWARD FOR GUILT
Juan Luis Cebrián
75. PROGRESSIVE MAJORITY?
Adela Cortina
76. A CONSTITUTIONAL REBELLION
Antonio Elorza
77. EXPEDIENCY, CHEATING AND BLACKMAIL
Daniel Gascón
78. THE CONSECRATION OF THE MOST POISONOUS LIE
Felix Ovejero
THE AUTHORS
