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Constitutional Interpretation.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Choudhry, Sujit.
- Series:
- Research handbooks in comparative constitutional law.
- Research Handbooks in Comparative Constitutional Law
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Constitutional law.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (927 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025.
- Summary:
- This insightful Handbook argues that constitutional interpretation has two core elements: constitutional text and constitutional context.Through a combination of thematic chapters and country-specific case studies, the Handbook analyses commitments found in preambles, epilogues, and other constitutional elements, as well as the overall.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright
- Contents
- Editors' acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- About the editors
- Table of cases
- Chapter 1: Constitutional interpretation in the Third Wave: the importance of text and context
- PART I: CONSTITUTIONAL INTERPRETATION IN THE THIRD WAVE
- Section A: Constitutional Text
- Chapter 2: Text, history, and precedent
- Chapter 3: The living constitution in collaborative context
- Chapter 4: Purposive/teleological interpretation
- Chapter 5: Judicial usages of preambles in constitutional interpretation: from rhetorical flourish to meta-constitutional law
- Chapter 6: Directive principles
- Chapter 7: Interpreting unconstitutional constitutional amendments
- Chapter 8: Interpreting constitutions and statutes: convergence more than specificity, whether in common law or civil law
- Section B: Constitutional Context: Legal Culture, Political Context, and Constitutional Mission
- Chapter 9: The role of legal-professional culture in constitutional interpretation
- Chapter 10: Federalism
- Chapter 11: Aversive constitutionalism
- Chapter 12: Constitutionalism and peacemaking: comparative perspectives
- Chapter 13: Social transformation
- Chapter 14: Popular constitutionalism
- Chapter 15: Anti-authoritarian constitutional interpretation
- Chapter 16: The role of comparative materials in constitutional interpretation
- Section C:Constitutional Context: Regional Human Rights Systems and Public International Law
- Chapter 17: The role of the African Charter of Human and Peoples' Rights in constitutional interpretation in Africa
- Chapter 18: The American Convention on Human Rights in Latin American domestic courts
- Chapter 19: Constitutional interpretation in European countries and the influence of the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Union.
- Chapter 20: Constitutional interpretation and international human rights law
- Chapter 21: International humanitarian law and international criminal law in constitutional interpretation
- Chapter 22: International refugee law and constitutional interpretation
- Chapter 23: International economic law in constitutional interpretation
- PART II: COUNTRY STUDIES
- Chapter 25: Constitutional interpretation in Brazil
- Chapter 26: Constitutional interpretation in Canada: watering living trees and Canadian values
- Chapter 27: Constitutional interpretation in Colombia
- Chapter 28: Constitutional interpretation in Germany: the Federal Constitutional Court
- Chapter 29: Constitutional interpretation in India
- Chapter 30: Constitutional interpretation in Kenya
- Chapter 31: Constitutional interpretation in Poland
- Chapter 32: Constitutional interpretation in South Africa
- Chapter 33: Constitutional interpretation: the UK experience
- Chapter 34: Constitutional interpretation in the United States
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-03-537263-0
- 1-80037-174-8
- 9781035372638
- OCLC:
- 1570229282
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