Martin BELOV

This book offers an outline of the foundations of a theory of constitutional semiotics. It provides a systematic account of the concept of constitutional semiotics and its role in the representation and signification…

Edited by Koldo CASLA, Magdalena SEPÚLVEDA, Vicente SILVA, and Valentina CONTRERAS

This fascinating new study explores the opportunities to enhance environmental and social rights when drafting a new constitution. Looking in-depth at the lessons to be learnt from the Chilean experience, ahead of its referendum on is proposed new constitution…

Wojciech SADURSKI

Over the last decade, the world has watched in shock as populists swept to power in free elections. From Manila to Warsaw, Brasilia to Budapest, the populist tide has shattered illusions of an inexorable march to liberal democracy...

Koldo CASLA, Magdalena SEPÚLVEDA, Vicente SILVA, and Valentina CONTRERAS eds

This fascinating new study explores the opportunities to enhance environmental and social rights when drafting a new constitution. Looking in-depth at the lessons to be learnt from the Chilean experience, ahead of its referendum on its proposed new…

Andrew HARDING

This is a much-welcome new edition of the seminal introduction to Malaysia's constitution by the leading expert in the field. Retaining its comprehensive approach, it examines constitutional governance in light of authoritarianism and continuing…

Matthew GROVES and Anita STUHMCKE (eds)

This is the first edited collection to examine the place of the Ombudsman in the modern state. It brings together key international scholars to discuss current and future challenges for the Ombudsman institution and the systems of government in which they operate. The collection…

Alexander GILLESPIE and Claire BREEN

This book offers a unique insight into the key legal and social issues at play in New Zealand today. Tackling the most pressing issues, it tracks the evolution of these societal problems from 1840 to the present day.

Issues explored include: racism; the position of women; the position of Maori…

Edited by Martin KRYGIER, Adam CZARNOTA & Wojciech SADURSKI

Around the world, populist parties have sprung up in formerly and formally liberal-democratic polities, challenging their existing political parties and leaders, and frequently overwhelming them. These challenges and successes were rarely predicted…

Michael GORDON & Adam TUCKER (eds)

The New Labour government first elected in 1997 had a defining influence on the development of the modern UK constitution. This book combines legal and political perspectives to provide a unique assessment of the way…

This book presents a new constitutional argument for the legitimacy of evolutive interpretation of the ECHR. It constructs a model, in which evolutive and static constitutional principles are balanced with each other…

Dimitrios KRYITSIS & Stuart LAKIN

What sort of methods are best suited to understanding constitutional doctrines and practices? Should we look to lawyers and legal methods alone, or should we draw upon other disciplines such as history, sociology, political theory, and moral philosophy?

Paolo SANDRO

This book addresses a palpable, yet widely neglected, tension in legal discourse. In our everyday legal practices – whether taking place in a courtroom, classroom, law firm, or elsewhere – we routinely and unproblematically talk of the activities of creating and applying the law

Kevin YL TAN & Michael NG (eds)

This new book in the Constitutionalism in Asia series considers the idea of origins, and of change and continuity in terms of 'constitution-making', which is an on-going process in the Northeast Asian states.

Marta CARTABIA & Nicola LUPO

This book introduces the reader to the Italian Constitution, which entered into force on 1 January 1948, and examines whether it has successfully managed the political and legal challenges that have occurred since its inception…

Matthew PALMER & Dean KNIGHT

This book examines New Zealand's constitution, through the lens of constitutional realism. It looks at the practices, habits, conventions and norms of constitutional life. It focuses on the structures, processes and culture that govern the exercise of public power…

This book considers the relationship between proportionality and facts in constitutional adjudication. Analysing where facts arise within each of the three stages of the structured proportionality test…

Eugénie MÉRIEAU

This book analyses the unique constitutional system in operation in Thailand as a continuous process of bricolage between various Western constitutional models and Buddhist doctrines of Kingship.

Paul GOWDER

What is the American rule of law? Is it a paradigm case of the strong constitutionalism concept of the rule of law or has it fallen short of its rule of law ambitions?

This open access book traces the promise and paradox of the American rule of law in three interwoven ways.

David KOSAR & Ladislav VYHNÁNEK

This book provides a contextual and authoritative overview of the principles, doctrines and institutions that underpin the Czech constitution…