The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0199689288 ISBN 13: 9780199689286

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2013

Riassunto

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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

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).

Contenuti:

• 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

Su questa edizione

• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0199689288
• ISBN 13: 9780199689286
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 1424
• Redattore: Rosenfeld Michel, Sajó András