Global Constitutionalism 2013: Governments’ Authority

Judith Resnik (ed)

Global Constitutionalism Seminar E-Book Series

Government’s Authority takes up several interrelated questions of courts’ roles in constitutional orders, including how courts review constitutional amendments against current constitutions; the outsourcing of government functions and responsibilities to private entities or to other governments; and the use of judicially ordered remedies when interpreting government obligations under statutes and international law. Across five chapters, the volume explores how courts must consider and make decisions about the authority of various governmental institutions, including themselves, to exercise and delegate powers that are purportedly enshrined in constitutions, statutes, and international law.

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