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The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law

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  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 9780199578610
  • Published In: May 2012
  • Format: Hardback , 1416 pages
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  • The first comprehensive reference in the field of comparative constitutional law, providing a road map to the current state of research for all those working in the discipline
  • Presents a global, comparative perspective on the central concepts, institutions, and processes of constitutional law, invaluable for students and academics of constitutional law in any country
  • Analyses the comparative jurisprudence on constitutional rights, offering a valuable inroad into understanding comparative human rights law
  • Features contributions from leading political scientists, legal scholars, and judges to present a rounded perspective on the discipline and emerging trends

The field of comparative constitutional law has grown immensely over the past couple of decades. Once a minor and obscure adjunct to the field of domestic constitutional law, comparative constitutional law has now moved front and centre. Driven by the global spread of democratic government and the expansion of international human rights law, the prominence and visibility of the field, among judges, politicians, and scholars has grown exponentially. Even in the United States, where domestic constitutional exclusivism has traditionally held a firm grip, use of comparative constitutional materials has become the subject of a lively and much publicized controversy among various justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.

The trend towards harmonization and international borrowing has been controversial. Whereas it seems fair to assume that there ought to be great convergence among industrialized democracies over the uses and functions of commercial contracts, that seems far from the case in constitutional law. Can a parliamentary democracy be compared to a presidential one? A federal republic to a unitary one? Moreover, what about differences in ideology or national identity? Can constitutional rights deployed in a libertarian context be profitably compared to those at work in a social welfare context? Is it perilous to compare minority rights in a multi-ethnic state to those in its ethnically homogeneous counterparts? These controversies form the background to the field of comparative constitutional law, challenging not only legal scholars, but also those in other fields, such as philosophy and political theory.
Providing the first single-volume, comprehensive reference resource, the Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law will be an essential road map to the field for all those working within it, or encountering it for the first time. Leading experts in the field examine the history and methodology of the discipline, the central concepts of constitutional law, constitutional processes, and institutions - from legislative reform to judicial interpretation, rights, and emerging trends.

Readership: Academics, and students of constitutional law and human rights in any jurisdiction; judges and international human rights lawyers; political scientists working on constitutional politics, or human rights.

Part I: History, Methodology, and Typology
1: Comparative Constitutional Law: A Contested Domain
a: Armin von Bogdandy: Comparative Constitutional Law: A Continental Perspective
b: Michel Rosenfeld: Comparative Constitutional Analysis in United States Adjudication and Scholarship
2: Vicki Jackson: Comparative Constitutional Law: Methodologies
3: Peer Zumbansen: Carving out Typologies and Accounting for Differences Across Systems: Towards a Methodology of Transnational Constitutionalism
4: Dieter Grimm: Types of Constitutions
5: Li-ann Thio: Constitutionalism in Illiberal Polities
6: Arun Thiruvengadam and Gedion Hessebon: Constitutionalism and Impoverishment: A Complex Dynamic
7: Stephen Gardbaum: The Place of Constitutional Law in the Legal System
Part II: Ideas
8: Stephen Holmes: Constitutions and Constitutionalism
9: Mark Tushnet: Constitution
10: Martin Krygier: Rule of Law
11: Günter Frankenberg: Democracy
12: Olivier Beaud: Conceptions of the State
13: Robert Alexy: Rights and Liberties as Concepts
14: Frank Michelman: Constitutions and the Public Private Divide
15: Janos Kis: State Neutrality
16: Roberto Gargarella: The Constitution and Justice
17: Michel Troper: Sovereignty
18: Matthias Mahlmann: Carving out the Essence of Humanity: Human Dignity and Autonomy in Modern Constitutional Orders
19: Catharine Mackinnon: Gender and the Constitution
Part III: Process
20: Claude Klein and András Sajó: Constitution-Making as a Process
21: David Dyzenhaus: States of Emergency
22: Yasuo Hasebe: War Powers
23: Susanna Mancini: Secession and Self-Determination
24: Laurence Morel: Referendum
25: Richard Pildes: Elections
Part IV: Architecture
26: Jenny Martinez: Horizontal Structuring
27: Daniel Halberstam: Federalism: Theory, Policy, Law
28: Sergio Bartole: Internal Ordering in the Unitary State
29: Héctor Fix-Fierro and Pedro Salazar-Ugarte: Presidentialism
30: Anthony W. Bradley and Cesare Pinelli: Parliamentarism
31: Susan Rose-Ackerman: The Regulatory State
Part V: Meanings/Textures
32: Jeffrey Goldsworthy: Constitutional Interpretation
33: Bernhard Schlink: Proportionality (1)
34: Aharon Barak: Proportionality (2)
35: Michel Rosenfeld: Constitutional Identity
36: Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn: Constitutional Values and Principles
Part VI: Institutions
37: Juliane Kokott and Martin Kaspar: Ensuring Constitutional Efficacy
38: Alec Stone Sweet: Constitutional Courts
39: Roderick A MacDonald and Hoi Kong: Judicial Independence as a Constitutional Virtue
40: Daniel Smilov: The Judiciary: The Least Dangerous Branch?
41: Cindy Skach: Political Parties and the Constitution
Part VII: Rights
42: Eric Barendt: Freedom of Expression
43: András Sajó and Renáta Uitz: Freedom of Religion
44: Richard Vogler: Due Process
45: Ulrich Preuss: Associative Rights (The Rights to the Freedoms of Petition, Assembly, and Association),
46: Manuel Jose Cepeda Espinosa: Privacy
47: Susanne Baer: Equality
48: Ayelet Shachar: Citizenship
49: Dennis Davis: Socio-Economic Rights
50: K D Ewing: Economic Rights
Part VIII: Overlapping Rights
51: Reva Siegel: (The Rights to the Freedoms of Petition, Assembly, and Association),
52: Kenji Yoshino and Michael Kavey: Immodest Claims and Modest Contributions: Sexual Orientation in Comparative Constitutional Law
53: Sujit Choudhry: Group Rights in Comparative Constitutional Law: Culture, Economics, or Political Power?
54: Daniel Sabbagh: Affirmative Action
55: Judit Sándor: Bioethics and Basic Rights: Persons, Humans and Boundaries of Life
Part IX: Trends
56: Wen-Chen Chang and Jiunn-Rong Yeh: Internationalization of Constitutional Law
57: Neil Walker: The EU's Unresolved Constitution
58: Erika de Wet: The Constitutionalization of Public International Law
59: Dean Spielmann: ECtHR Jurisprudence and the Constitutional Systems of Europe
60: Jan-Werner Müller: Militant Democracy
61: Juan Mendez: Constitutionalism and Transitional Justice
62: Chibli Mallat: Islam and the Constitutional Order
63: Vlad Perju: Constitutional Transplants, Borrowing, and Migrations
64: Gabor Halmai: The Use of Foreign Law in Constitutional Interpretation

Edited by Michel Rosenfeld, Justice Sydney L. Robins Professor of Human Rights and Director, Program on Global and Comparative Constitutional Theory, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, and András Sajó, Judge, European Court of Human Rights, and University Professor of the Central European University

Michel Rosenfeld is the Justice Sydney L. Robins Professor of Human Rights at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where he is also Director of the Program on Global and Comparative Constitutional Theory. He is the co-editor-in-chief of International Journal of Constitutional Law and the author or co-editor of numerous books, including Law, Justice, Democracy, and the Clash of Cultures: A Pluralist Account (2010) and The Identity of the Constitutional Subject: Selfhood, Citizenship, Culture and Community (2009). Professor Rosenfeld is the recipient of the French government's highest and most prestigious award, the Legion of Honour.

András Sajó is a judge at the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg. He is also a University Professor at CEU and Global Visiting Professor of Law at New York University Law School. Professor Sajó was the founding dean of Legal Studies at CEU. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including, with Michel Rosenfeld, Norman Dawson, and Susanne Baer, Comparative Constitutions: Cases and Materials (2003).

Contributors: 
Robert Alexy, University of Kiel 
Susanne Baer, Humboldt University, Berlin 
Aharon Barak, former Chief Justice of the Israel Supreme Court 
Eric Barendt, University College London 
Sergio Bartole, University of Trieste 
Olivier Beaud, Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II)
Anthony W Bradley, Emeritus Professor of Constitutional Law, Edinburgh University 
Wen-Chen Chang, National Taiwan University 
Sujit Choudhry, University of Toronto 
Dennis Davis, University of Cape Town 
Erika de Wet, Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa (ICLA), University of Pretoria 
David Dyzenhaus, University of Toronto 
Manuel Jose Cepeda Espinosa, former Justice on the Constitutional Court of Colombia 
K D Ewing, King's College London 
Hector Fix-Fierro, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 
Günter Frankenberg, Goethe University 
Stephen Gardbaum, University of California, Los Angeles Law School 
Roberto Gargarella, Chr. Michelsen Institute 
Jeffrey Goldsworthy, Monash University 
Dieter Grimm, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin 
Gabor Halmai, University of Budapest 
Yasuo Hasebe, University of Tokyo Faculty of Law 
Daniel Halberstam, University of Michigan Law School 
Gedion Hessebon, Central European University
Stephen Holmes, New York University 
Vicki Jackson, University of Georgetown 
Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn, University of Texas 
Martin Kaspar, European Court of Justice 
Michael Kavey, Columbia Law School 
Janos Kis, New York University 
Claude Klein, Hebrew University 
Juliane Kokott, Advocate General, European Court of Justice, Luxembourg 
Hoi Kong, McGill University 
Martin Krygier, Unversity of Sydney 
Roderick A MacDonald, McGill University 
Catharine Mackinnon, University of Michigan 
Matthias Mahlmann, Faculty of Law, University of Zurich 
Chibli Mallat, University of Utah 
Susanna Mancini, University of Bologna 
Jenny Martinez, Stanford Law School 
Juan Mendez, President, International Center for Transitional Justice 
Frank Michelman, Harvard University 
Laurence Morel, European University Insitute 
Jan-Werner Mueller, Princeton University 
Vlad Perju, Boston College 
Richard Pildes, New York University 
Cesare Pinelli, Faculty of Law, University of Rome Sapienza 
Ulrich Preuss, Hertie School of Governance 
Susan Rose-Ackerman, Yale Law School 
Michel Rosenfeld, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law 
Daniel Sabbagh, Centre for International Studies and Research 
András Sajó, Judge, European Court of Human Rights and Central European University 
Pededro Salazar-Ugarte, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 
Judit Sándor, Central European University 
Bernhard Schlink, Humboldt University (emeritus) 
Ayelet Shachar, University of Toronto 
Reva Siegel, Yale University 
Cindy Skach, University of Oxford 
Daniel Smilov, Center for Liberal Strategies, University of Sofia
Dean Spielmann, Judge of the European Court of Human Rights 
Alec Stone Sweet, Yale University 
Li-ann Thio, National University of Singapore
Arun Thiruvengadam, National University of Singapore 
Michel Troper, Université Paris X 
Mark Tushnet, Harvard University 
Renáta Uitz, Central European University 
Armin von Bogdandy, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg 
Richard Vogler, University of Sussex 
Neil Walker, University of Edinburgh 
Jiunn-Rong Yeh, National Taiwan University
Kenji Yoshino, New York University 
Peer Zumbansen, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University

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