Defining the Field of Comparative Constitutional Law

Herausgeber: Jackson, Vicki; Tushnet, Mark

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Produktbeschreibung

Jackson, Tushnet, and their contributors, distinguished jurists and legal scholars from around the world, seek to define the field of constitutional law, sometimes expressly but more often by illustrating the way in which each writer thinks about comparative constitutional law. Viewed as a whole, the collection points to common constitutional themes even though how nations responded to these issues differed substantially based on different histories, traditions, and experiences. Three common themes emerge from the essays. First discussed are the relationships of constitutionalism and constitutional law to popular understandings and political contexts and their relationship to constitutional understandings and transformations. A second set of concerns revolve around dilemmas of equality. Third, explicit or implicit in virtually all of the essays is the theme that globalization as a phenomenon requires comparative constitutional study. Here is a thoughtful and stimulating collection that will be of value to legal scholars, students, and others involved with constitutional law issues.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 598g
• ISBN-13: 9780275970697
• ISBN-10: 0275970698
• Artikelnr.: 22242865

Autorenporträt

VICKI C. JACKSON is Professor of Law, Georgetown University. MARK TUSHNET is Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law, Georgetown University. Both have published extensively on constitutional law issues.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by William H. Rehnquist Introduction European Integration and the
Ideal of the Common Good by Winfried Brugger The Shaping of a New Democracy
Within the Context of Tradition: Equality and the Respect for Diversity by
D. M. Davis Reflections on Continental European Public Law in the Tradition
of Hobbes and Napoleon by Thomas Fleiner The Right to Freedom of Religion
and Secularism in the Indiana Constitution by Ratna Kapur Uses Americans
Might Make of Foreign Constitutional Case Law by Donald P. Kommers Judicial
Systems: Challenges for the Twenty-First Century by Roberto G. MacLean The
United Kingdom Human Rights Act, 1998 by Geoffrey Marshall Constitutional
Development: The African Experience by Dullah Omar Comparative
Constitutional Law in an Age of Economic Globalization by David
Schneiderman Modern Constitutional Developments in the Arab World: The Case
of Judicial Review in Egypt and Its Impact on Other Arab Countries by Adel
Omar Sherif Why Do We Study Constitutional Laws of Foreign Countries, and
How? by Kazuyuki Takahashi A European Perspective: Economic and Social
Rights in the French Constitution by Jean-Pierre Theron Constitutional
Conceptions and Constitutional Comparativism by Lorraine E. Weinrib For
Further Reading Index