Legal Implications of Territorial Secession in Spain

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Editor and Contributors -- The Absence of Any Basis for Secession in the Right of Self-Determination of Peoples and in the Serious Violations of Human Ri... -- 1 The Phenomenon of Secession as a Form of State Creation -- 2 The Right to Self-Determination of Peoples and Secession -- 2.1 The Construction of the Regime of Self-Determination for the Peoples Under Colonial Domination -- 2.2 The Absence of External Self-Determination in the International Regulation of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Nationa... -- 3 Human Rights Violations and Secession: Emerging Construction of a Doctrine of Remedial-Secession -- 4 Final Considerations -- References -- Secession Through Constitutional Reform? A Comparative Study -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Material Limits to Constitutional Reform -- 2.1 Explicit Intangibility Clauses -- 2.2 Implicit Intangibility Clauses -- 2.3 The Spanish Constitutional Court and the Possibility of Including a Secession Clause in the Constitution -- 2.3.1 From an Apparent Initial Refusal -- 2.3.2 To Final Acceptance -- 2.3.2.1 With Regard to the ``Ibarretxe Plan´´: The Basque Law 9/2008, on Consultation -- 2.3.2.2 Within the Framework of the Catalan ``Procés´´ -- The Organic Law 6/2006, of 19 July, on the Reform of the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia -- Law 10/2014, of 26 September, on Non-Referendum Popular Consultations and Other Forms of Citizen Participation -- Law 19/2017, of September 6, on the Referendum on Self-Determination -- Law 20/2017, of 8 September, on Legal and Foundational Transience of the Republic -- 3 Comparative Constitutional Law and Internal Separatist Tensions -- 3.1 The United States of America -- 3.2 Canada -- 3.3 Scotland -- 3.4 Italy -- 3.5 Germany -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- The Right to Self-Determination: An Interpretation from Spain -- 1 Introduction.