This book explores accountability from a range of perspectives, crossing traditional disciplinary, thematic, and professional boundaries…
Read MoreDespite a long and venerable tradition, the material constitution almost disappeared from constitutional scholarship after the Second World War…
Read MoreThis book argues that contemporary constitutionalism is characterised by a ‘default vertical’ approach to constitutional rights. ‘Default verticality’ means that while horizontal constitutional rights are not unknown…
Read MoreThis book considers the impact of judicial avoidance: What happens when courts leave parts of the merits of the case, or their whole, undecided for…
Read MoreThis book explores the legal, judicial and constitutional framework of Hong Kong. As with other volumes in the classic Constitutional Systems of the World series, it offers a rigorous…
Read MoreThis open access book considers the consequences that arise from the different degrees of codification of general administrative law. It answers important questions…
Read MoreThe chapters collected in this book explore the place and role of judge-made private law in an emerging European polity. The book aims to add a private legal perspective to…
Read MoreThis book shines a light on the still unexplored relationships between federalism and disability rights. It investigates how the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is implemented by different federal systems…
Read MoreThis study grapples with one of the most challenging questions facing constitutional lawyers today; namely the rule of law. Drawing on the expertise of leading scholars and judges, it takes a dual approach. It opens by…
Read MoreThis book looks at responsible government under the Australian Constitution. It undertakes a detailed examination of the history leading to the incorporation of responsible government into the…
Read MoreThis book offers a broad perspective of the functioning, evolution, and dynamics of the rule of law in Brazil. In the context of a rising crisis of liberal principles and…
Read MoreThis is the first in a 4 volume set that provides the definitive account of the major issues of comparative constitutional law in 19 Asian jurisdictions. This volume explores…
Read MoreBuddhism and Comparative Constitutional Law offers the first comprehensive account of the entanglements of Buddhism and constitutional law in…
This open access book asks whether there is space for particularism in a constitutional democracy which would limit the implementation of EU law. National identity claims…
Read MoreThis book presents an important contribution to the South Asia-centric literature on the topic of the stability and resilience of constitutional democracies. Chapters deal not only with relatively well known South Asian countries such as India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and…
Read MoreIn recent years, liberal constitutionalism has come under sharp attack. Globalization has caused huge disparities in wealth, identity-based alienation triggered by mass migration, and accompanying erosions…
Read MoreThis book examines the 3 major models of amendment codification—the appendative, the integrative, and the invisible models—and shows how some jurisdictions have innovated alternative forms of amendment codification that combine elements of more than…
Read MoreWhile law is inseparable from the construction of democracy, to such an extent that democracy and the rule of law are confused, the main idea of this book is to show that law can also stand against democracy. The figure of a people inscribed within borders…
Read MoreA Theory of African Constitutionalism asks and seeks to answer why we need a new theoretical framework for African constitutionalism and how this could offer us better theoretical and practical tools with which to understand, improve, and assess…
Read MoreIs there a real and meaningful future for EU constitutionalism? This collection explores this question in light of recent challenges to EU constitutional law; namely the pandemic and the political schisms emerging across the European Union. The contributors…
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