The migration of constitutional ideas / edited by Sujit Choudhry.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Choudhry, Sujit, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Constitutional law.

International law.

Supranationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 448 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The migration of constitutional ideas across jurisdictions is one of the central features of contemporary constitutional practice. The increasing use of comparative jurisprudence in interpreting constitutions is one example of this. In this 2007 book, leading figures in the study of comparative constitutionalism and comparative constitutional politics from North America, Europe and Australia discuss the dynamic processes whereby constitutional systems influence each other. They explore basic methodological questions which have thus far received little attention, and examine the complex relationship between national and supranational constitutionalism - an issue of considerable contemporary interest in Europe. The migration of constitutional ideas is discussed from a variety of methodological perspectives - comparative law, comparative politics, and cultural studies of law - and contributors draw on case-studies from a wide variety of jurisdictions: Australia, Hungary, India, South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada.

Contents:

Migration as a new metaphor in comparative constitutional law / Sujit Choudhry

On the blurred methodological matrix of comparative constitutional law / Ran Hirschl

Some reflections on method in comparative constitutional law / Mark Tushnet

The postwar paradigm and American exceptionalism / Lorraine E. Weinrib

Questioning the migration of constitutional ideas : rights, constitutionalism and the limits of convergence / Jeffrey Goldsworthy

Spreading liberal constitutionalism : an inquiry into the fate of free speech rights in new democracies / Michel Rosenfeld and Andras Sajo

Underlying principles and the migration of reasoning templates : a trans-systemic reading of the Quebec Secession Reference / Jean-Francois Gaudreault-Desbiens

Migrating marriages and comparative constitutionalism / Brenda Cossman

Inimical to constitutional values : complex migrations of constitutional rights / Mayo Moran

Democratic constitutionalism encounters international law : terms of engagement / Mattias Kumm

Constitution or model treaty? Struggling over the interpretive authority of NAFTA / David Schneiderman

The migration of constitutional ideas and the migration of the constitutional idea : the case of the EU / Neil Walker

The migration of anti-constitutional ideas : the post-9/11 globalization of public law and the international state of emergency / Kim Lane Scheppele

The post-9/11 migration of Britain's Terrorism Act 2000 / Kent Roach

'Control systems' and the migration of anomalies / Oren Gross.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

ISBN:

1-107-16964-X

1-280-75064-2

0-511-27029-1

0-511-26973-0

0-511-49368-1

0-511-26810-6

0-511-31974-6

0-511-26877-7

OCLC:

252534573