From Parchment to Practice: Implementing New Constitutions (Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy)

Ginsburg, Tom; Huq, Aziz Z.

ISBN 10: 1108738028 / ISBN 13: 9781108738026

Editore: Cambridge University Press (edition ), 2020

The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way. Codice articolo 1108738028-7-1

Riassunto:

Asks how the 'parchment' promises of a written constitution are translated into political practice, working through the many problems of constitutional implementation after adoption.

Informazioni sugli autori: Tom Ginsburg is Leo Spitz Professor of International Law at the University of Chicago, where he also holds an appointment in the Political Science Department. He also co-directs the Comparative Constitutions Project, an National Science Foundation-funded data set cataloging the world's constitutions since 1789. He is the author of several books, including How to Save a Constitutional Democracy (with Aziz Huq, 2018), Comparative Constitutional Law (with Rosalind Dixon, 2011), and The Endurance of National Constitutions (with Zachary Elkins and James Melton, 2009).

Aziz Huq is Frank and Bernice Greenberg Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, where he teaches and researches in constitutional law. He is the author of How to Save a Constitutional Democracy (with Tom Ginsburg, 2018). His scholarship has won awards from the Association of American Law Schools, and been published in leading legal and peer-reviewed journals. Previously, Huq was Director of the Liberty and National Security Project of the Brennan Center for Justice, and a Senior Consultant Analyst for the International Crisis Group.

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Titolo: From Parchment to Practice: Implementing New...
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press (edition )
Data di pubblicazione: 2020
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Fair