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References to convivencia displayed, and still perform, different functions in historical, political, and social discourses in Spain. The use of the concept popularized by Américo Castro, and others before him, was a reaction to a political and cultural context and had a political meaning as well. Therefore, these intellectual creations need to be contextualized and analyzed critically. My aim in this text is to analyze the uses of convivencia in legal and political discourses in 19th and 20th centuries as well as today. In the following pages, I describe the historical trajectory of convivencia in Spain and its reflection within the legal and political culture as well as the nation-building process. I mostly focus on the representations of Sephardic Jews in contemporary Spain and the Middle Ages by the Spanish intellectual and political elites. Following suggestions made by David Nirenberg, I consider how the references to Jews and to Judaism affected Spanish society, how the Spanish »Jewish question« influenced legal and political thought, and shaped national identity in Spain. I analyze parliamentary discourses, legal texts, and other intellectual productions by the Spanish elites from the mid-19th century until today. ; This research was co-funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation within the funded Project »Tradición y Constitución: problemas constituyentes de la España contemporánea« (Reference: DER2014-56291-C3-1-P).

El fallecimiento del dictador Francisco Franco abría un período de incertidumbre política en España. Entre los herederos del régimen cundía la convicción de que para conservar el poder sería necesario plantear reformas que permitieran responder a algunas de las demandas más acuciantes y, al mismo tiempo, conservar el control político frente a la oposición democrática. La gestión de la cuestión regional aparecía como un ámbito propicio para la experimentación de estas propuestas postfranquistas, sobre todo en su concreción catalana, donde la demanda de algún tipo de descentralización contaba con tradición y fuertes apoyos populares. Desde el entorno de Manuel Fraga se intentó poner en marcha un Régimen Especial para las Provincias Catalanas, remedo actualizado de la histórica Mancomunitat de Catalunya (1914-‍1925), cuyo proyecto fue continuado por el primer Gobierno de Adolfo Suárez con la implicación directa de los representantes más ilustres del franquismo catalán. La documentación interna e inédita conservada por Juan Echevarría Puig, miembro activo de esta comisión que desarrolló su actividad entre 1976 y 1977, nos permite conocer en profundidad esta última encarnación (fracasada, pero influyente) de regionalismo franquista.

"Comparative law and the history of law are traditionally devoted to expanding the context of legal rules and legal institutions. Comparison involves history, as the well-known motto proclaims, but history also involves comparison. Both disciplines are in fact interested in deepening the space-time coordinates of law as a social phenomenon, which means that they take up a critical approach to their object of study. In recent years, this trait is increasingly coming into conflict with the tendency to present law as a mere technocratic instrument for organizing societies. As a result of the »end of history« discourse, the Western economic and political order has become a definitive point of reference worldwide, with law scholars charged with identifying best practices to enhance their efficiency. A group of comparative lawyers and legal historians critically discuss this assumption from a theoretical point of view as well as from the perspective of their respective fields of research. The result is a multifaceted range of ideas on the significance and possible future of two disciplines that share, in addition to their traditional approach, a crisis of identity."

Our modern legal system is based on the principle of
equality. But is equality perhaps not also a concept that
inadequately describes the complexity of normative orders?
Highly differentiated societies with a multitude of collective
identities and functional rationalities are in a permanent
state of tension with this legal postulate. The contributions
to this volume examine how this tension has developed in
Europe and Latin America over the last 200 years