The field of comparative constitutional law has grown immensely in recent decades. Once a minor and obscure adjunct to the field of domestic constitutional law, comparative constitutional law has now moved front and centre. Driven by the global spread of democratic government and the expansion of international human rights law, the prominence and visibility of the field, among judges, politicians, and scholars has grown exponentially. Even in the United States, where domestic constitutional exclusivism has traditionally held a firm grip, use of comparative constitutional materials has become the subject of a lively and much publicized controversy among various justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.
The trend towards harmonization and international borrowing has been controversial. Whereas it seems fair to assume that there ought to be great convergence among industrialized democracies over the uses and functions of commercial contracts, that seems far from the case in constitutional law. Can a parliamentary democracy be compared to a presidential one? A federal republic to a unitary one? Moreover, what about differences in ideology or national identity? Can constitutional rights deployed in a libertarian context be profitably compared to those at work in a social welfare context? Is it perilous to compare minority rights in a multi-ethnic state to those in its ethnically homogeneous counterparts? These controversies form the background to the field of comparative constitutional law, challenging not only legal scholars, but also those in other fields, such as philosophy and political theory.
Providing the first single-volume, comprehensive reference resource, the Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law will be an essential road map to the field for all those working within it, or encountering it for the first time. Leading experts in the field examine the history and methodology of the discipline, the central concepts of constitutional law, constitutional processes, and institutions - from legislative reform to judicial interpretation, rights, and emerging trends.
Author(s): Michel Rosenfeld; Andras Sajo
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Edition: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Year: 2012
Language: English
Pages: 1396
Tags: Constitutional law; Comparative law
Contents
Notes on the Contributors xiii
List of Abbreviations xvii
Introduction 1
Michel Rosenfeld and András Sajó
PART I HISTORY, METHODOLOGY,
AND TYPOLOGY
1. Comparative Constitutional Law: A Contested Domain:
A. Comparative Constitutional Law: A Continental Perspective 25
Armin von Bogdandy
B. Comparative Constitutional Analysis in United States Adjudication
and Scholarship 38
Michel Rosenfeld
2. Comparative Constitutional Law: Methodologies 54
Vicki C. Jackson
3. Carving Out Typologies and Accounting for Diff erences Across Systems:
Towards a Methodology of Transnational Constitutionalism 75
Peer Zumbansen
4. Types of Constitutions 98
Dieter Grimm
5. Constitutionalism in Illiberal Polities 133
Li-Ann Thio
6. Constitutionalism and Impoverishment: A Complex Dynamic 153
Arun Thiruvengadam and Gedion T. Hessebon
7. Th e Place of Constitutional Law in the Legal System 169 viii contents
PART II IDEAS
8. Constitutions and Constitutionalism 189
Stephen Holmes
9. Constitution 217
Mark Tushnet
10. Rule of Law 233
Martin Krygier
11. Democracy 250
Günter Frankenberg
12. Conceptions of the State 269
Olivier Beaud
13. Rights and Liberties as Concepts 283
Robert Alexy
14. Constitutions and the Public/Private Divide 298
Frank I. Michelman
15. State Neutrality 318
János Kis
16. Th e Constitution and Justice 336
Roberto Gargarella
17. Sovereignty 350
Michel Troper
18. Human Dignity and Autonomy in Modern Constitutional Orders 370
Matthias Mahlmann
19. Gender in Constitutions 397
Catharine A. Mackinnon
PART III PROCESS
20. Constitution-Making: Process and Substance 419
Claude Klein and András Sajó
21. States of Emergency 442
David Dyzenhaus contents ix
22. War Powers 463
Yasuo Hasebe
23. Secession and Self-Determination 481
Susanna Mancini
24. Referendum 501
Laurence Morel
25. Elections 529
Richard H. Pildes
PART IV ARCHITECTURE
26. Horizontal Structuring 547
Jenny S. Martinez
27. Federalism: Th eory, Policy, Law 576
Daniel Halberstam
28. Internal Ordering in the Unitary State 609
Sergio Bartole
29. Presidentialism 628
Héctor Fix-Fierro and Pedro Salazar-Ugarte
30. Parliamentarism 650
Anthony W. Bradley and Cesare Pinelli
31. Th e Regulatory State 671
Susan Rose-Ackerman
PART V MEANINGS/TEXTURES
32. Constitutional Interpretation 689
Jeffrey Goldsworthy
33. Proportionality (1) 718
Bernhard Schlink
34. Proportionality (2) 738
Aharon Barak
35. Constitutional Identity 756
Michel Rosenfeld x contents
36. Constitutional Values and Principles 777
Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn
PART VI INSTITUTIONS
37. Ensuring Constitutional Effi cacy 795
Juliane Kokott and Martin Kaspar
38. Constitutional Courts 816
Alec Stone Sweet
39. Judicial Independence as a Constitutional Virtue 831
Roderick A. Macdonald and Hoi Kong
40. Th e Judiciary: Th e Least Dangerous Branch? 859
Daniel Smilov
41. Political Parties and the Constitution 874
Cindy Skach
PART VII RIGHTS
42. Freedom of Expression 891
Eric Barendt
43. Freedom of Religion 909
András Sajó and Renáta Uitz
44. Due Process 929
Richard Vogler
45. Associative Rights (Th e Rights to the Freedoms of Petition, Assembly,
and Association) 948
Ulrich K. Preuβ
46. Privacy 966
Manuel José Cepeda Espinosa
47. Equality 982
Susanne Baer
48. Citizenship 1002
Ayelet Shachar contents xi
49. Socio-Economic Rights 1020
D.M. Davis
50. Economic Rights 1036
K.D. Ewing
PART VIII OVERLAPPING RIGHTS
51. Th e Constitutionalization of Abortion 1057
Reva B. Siegel
52. Immodest Claims and Modest Contributions: Sexual Orientation in
Comparative Constitutional Law 1079
Kenji Yoshino and Michael Kavey
53. Group Rights in Comparative Constitutional Law: Culture, Economics,
or Political Power? 1099
Sujit Choudhry
54. Affi rmative Action 1124
Daniel Sabbagh
55. Bioethics and Basic Rights: Persons, Humans, and Boundaries of Life 1142
Judit Sándor
PART IX TRENDS
56. Internationalization of Constitutional Law 1165
Wen-Chen Chang and Jiunn-Rong Yeh
57. Th e European Union’s Unresolved Constitution 1185
Neil Walker
58. Th e Constitutionalization of Public International Law 1209
Erika de Wet
59. Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights and the
Constitutional Systems of Europe 1231
Dean Spielmann
60. Militant Democracy 1253
Jan-Werner Müller
61. Constitutionalism and Transitional Justice 1270
Juan E. Méndez xii contents
62. Islam and the Constitutional Order 1287
Chibli Mallat
63. Constitutional Transplants, Borrowing, and Migrations 1304
Vlad Perju
64. Th e Use of Foreign Law in Constitutional Interpretation 1328
Gábor Halmai
Index 1349
