The Constitution of the European Union: A Contextual Analysis
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Ulrich HALTERN
This book provides a contextual analysis of the constitution of the European Union which, unlike most constitutions, does not belong to a state.
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National Security Constitutionalism in the Commonwealth Five Eyes States
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Paul F SCOTT
This book examines the constitutional treatment of national security in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. These four states share their Commonwealth heritage and are also members, alongside the United States, of the Five-Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance
Read MoreTerritorial Governance in Southeast Asia
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Andrew HARDING
This book assesses territorial governance (that is, all forms of subnational governance) as a constitutional artefact in five Southeast Asian countries - Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Thailand.
Read MoreParliament, the Constitution, and Property in the United Kingdom
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Tom ALLEN
This book considers whether Parliament recognises a constitutional right to property. It reviews legislation and debates from the Middle Ages through to more recent legislation, and covers a wide range of topics, such as land reform, nationalisation, taxation, regulatory laws and retrospection. It also looks at the most recent debates and considers the relevance of constitutional thinking to recent election manifestos of the main political parties.
Read MoreDemocratic Consolidation and Constitutional Endurance in Asia and Africa: Comparing Uneven Pathways
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Tom DALY and Dinesha SAMARARATNE
What factors drive constitutional change and sustain positive transformation? How are democratic values recognised, restored, and preserved through constitutional change? Democratic Consolidation and Constitutional Endurance in Asia and Africa is a well-articulated response to the growing scholarly conversation on democratic backsliding and resilience.
Read MoreConstitutional Courts and Judicial Review: Between Law and Politics
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Dieter GRIMM
This is a collection of essays from Dieter Grimm, one of Germany’s most important constitutional lawyers. The book considers the fundamental questions under scrutiny today: are constitutional courts political or legal institutions? Is judicial review a political or a legal activity? Is it a threat to or a condition of democracy? Should these courts be abolished or strengthened? Is a rational interpretation of constitutional law possible?
Read MoreThe Rule of Law in Singapore: Legal Communitarianism, Paternal Democracy and the Developmentalist State
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Li-ann THIO
This book examines the operation of the rule of law in the non-liberal democracy of Singapore.
Read MoreThe Rule of Law in Germany: Bringing the Rechtsstaat into the 21st Century
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Dana BURCHARDT and Hannah BIRKENKÖTTER
The rule of law, or Rechtsstaatsprinzip, is one of Germany’s oldest constitutional principles and forms part of Germany’s constitutional self-understanding. This book critically examines to what extent this key constitutional principle has translated into a reality for all.
Read MoreRepairing British Politics: A Blueprint for Constitutional Change
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Richard GORDON KC
The 1st edition of this seminal text was written as a response to the constitutional crisis of 2009, sparked by the 'expenses scandal', which led a general distrust of the UK's entire political order.
Read MoreJudging Composite Decision-Making: The Transformation of European
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Filipe BRITO BASTOS
This book examines the European Court of Justice’s principles relating to composite decision-making. Through rigorous case law analysis, it shows how these rely on national and Union observance of rule of law requirements…
Read MoreTwenty-First Century Perspectives on the Scholarship of AV Dicey: The Enduring Legacy of a Victorian Constitutionalist
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Catherine MARSHALL and Céline ROYNIER (eds)
This book reassesses AV Dicey's legacy in political and legal thought through the reflections of leading scholars who consider his importance not only in today's British constitutional and legal culture but also in other foreign constitutional cultures…
Read MorePrivate Law and the State
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Andrew ROBERTSON & Jason W. NEYERS (eds)
This collection explores the relationship between the state and private law. It addresses four overlapping questions; opening by asking why states recognise and enforce private law obligations and liabilities…
Read MoreAdministrative Tribunals in the Common Law World
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Stephen THOMSON, Matthew GROVES & Greg WEEKS (eds)
Tribunals are a vital part of the public law frameworks of many countries. This is the first edited book collection to examine administrative tribunals across the common law world…
Read MoreThe Danish EU Opt-Outs
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Christian THORNING
This book offers the first comprehensive legal study dedicated to the understanding of the Danish EU opt-outs. The impact of these is significant, falling as they do within Union citizenship, the euro, defense cooperation and the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice…
Read MoreThe Dynamics of Powers in the European Union
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Christina ECKES, Päivi LEINO-SANDBERG & Anna W GHAVANINI (eds)
Separation of powers is the time-tested touchstone of the legitimate exercise of power in modern democracies. This collection examines decision-making in the EU’s multilayered and polycentric constitutional structure through this lens…
Read MoreEU Neighbourhood Law
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Alessandro PETTI
This book turns Wider Europe into an analytical concept to capture the legal and political facets of the extension of the EU’s legal space in the Union’s neighbourhood…
Read MoreConstitutional Reasoning in Latin America and the Caribbean
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Johanna FRÖHLICH (ed)
This book examines the jurisprudence of 15 constitutional courts and supreme courts, including the Caribbean Commonwealth and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights...
Read MoreWhy the Russian Constitution Matters
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William PARTLETT
This book tells the forgotten story of the ‘dark arts’ of constitutional law by explaining how Russian President Vladimir Putin used particular rules in the 1993 Russian Constitution to build and safeguard his personal power...
Read MoreAsian Comparative Constitutional Law, Volume 2: Constitutional Amendments
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Ngoc SON BUI & Mara MALAGODI
This is the second in a 4-volume set that provides the definitive account of the major issues of comparative constitutional law in Asian jurisdictions...
Read MoreGood Judgment: The European Court of Justice as a Context-Conscious Lawmaker
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Urška ŠADL
Courts are context-conscious. They solve legal disputes with societal impact in mind, using interpretive tools and procedural means. This book develops concepts and methods for a systematic and legally informative analysis of this complex process...
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