The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law

by Rosenfeld, Michel; Sajo, Andras

• ISBN13: 9780199689286
• ISBN10: 0199689288
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-12-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Michel Rosenfeld, Justice Sydney L. Robins Professor of Human Rights and Director, Program on Global and Comparative Constitutional Theory, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University,Andras Sajo, Judge, European Court of Human Rights, and University Professor of the Central European University

Michel Rosenfeld is the Justice Sydney L. Robins Professor of Human Rights at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where he is also Director of the Program on Global and Comparative Constitutional Theory. He is the co-editor-in-chief of International Journal of Constitutional Law and the author or co-editor of numerous books, including Law, Justice, Democracy, and the Clash of Cultures: A Pluralist Account (2010) and The Identity of the Constitutional Subject: Selfhood, Citizenship, Culture and Community (2009). Professor Rosenfeld is the recipient of the French government's highest and most prestigious award, the Legion of Honour.


Andras Sajo is a judge at the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg. He is also a University Professor at CEU and Global Visiting Professor of Law at New York University Law School. Professor Sajo was the founding dean of Legal Studies at CEU. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including, with Michel Rosenfeld, Norman Dawson, and Susanne Baer, Comparative Constitutions: Cases and Materials (2003).

Table of Contents

Part I: History, Methodology, and Typology
1. Comparative Constitutional Law: A Contested Domain
a. Comparative Constitutional Law: A Continental Perspective, Armin von Bogdandy
b. Comparative Constitutional Analysis in United States Adjudication and Scholarship, Michel Rosenfeld
2. Comparative Constitutional Law: Methodologies, Vicki Jackson
3. Carving out Typologies and Accounting for Differences Across Systems: Towards a Methodology of Transnational Constitutionalism, Peer Zumbansen
4. Types of Constitutions, Dieter Grimm
5. Constitutionalism in Illiberal Polities, Li-ann Thio
6. Constitutionalism and Impoverishment: A Complex Dynamic, Arun Thiruvengadam and Gedion Hessebon
7. The Place of Constitutional Law in the Legal System, Stephen Gardbaum
Part II: Ideas
8. Constitutions and Constitutionalism, Stephen Holmes
9. Constitution, Mark Tushnet
10. Rule of Law, Martin Krygier
11. Democracy, Gunter Frankenberg
12. Conceptions of the State, Olivier Beaud
13. Rights and Liberties as Concepts, Robert Alexy
14. Constitutions and the Public Private Divide, Frank Michelman
15. State Neutrality, Janos Kis
16. The Constitution and Justice, Roberto Gargarella
17. Sovereignty, Michel Troper
18. Carving out the Essence of Humanity: Human Dignity and Autonomy in Modern Constitutional Orders, Matthias Mahlmann
19. Gender and the Constitution, Catharine Mackinnon
Part III: Process
20. Constitution-Making as a Process, Claude Klein and Andras Sajo
21. States of Emergency, David Dyzenhaus
22. War Powers, Yasuo Hasebe
23. Secession and Self-Determination, Susanna Mancini
24. Referendum, Laurence Morel
25. Elections, Richard Pildes
Part IV: Architecture
26. Horizontal Structuring, Jenny Martinez
27. Federalism: Theory, Policy, Law, Daniel Halberstam
28. Internal Ordering in the Unitary State, Sergio Bartole
29. Presidentialism, Hector Fix-Fierro and Pedro Salazar-Ugarte
30. Parliamentarism, Anthony W. Bradley and Cesare Pinelli
31. The Regulatory State, Susan Rose-Ackerman
Part V: Meanings/Textures
32. Constitutional Interpretation, Jeffrey Goldsworthy
33. Proportionality (1), Bernhard Schlink
34. Proportionality (2), Aharon Barak
35. Constitutional Identity, Michel Rosenfeld
36. Constitutional Values and Principles, Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn
Part VI: Institutions
37. Ensuring Constitutional Efficacy, Juliane Kokott and Martin Kaspar
38. Constitutional Courts, Alec Stone Sweet
39. Judicial Independence as a Constitutional Virtue, Roderick A MacDonald and Hoi Kong
40. The Judiciary: The Least Dangerous Branch?, Daniel Smilov
41. Political Parties and the Constitution, Cindy Skach
Part VII: Rights
42. Freedom of Expression, Eric Barendt
43. Freedom of Religion, Andras Sajo and Renata Uitz
44. Due Process, Richard Vogler
45. Associative Rights (The Rights to the Freedoms of Petition, Assembly, and Association),, Ulrich Preuss
46. Privacy, Manuel Jose Cepeda Espinosa
47. Equality, Susanne Baer
48. Citizenship, Ayelet Shachar
49. Socio-Economic Rights, Dennis Davis
50. Economic Rights, K D Ewing
Part VIII: Overlapping Rights
51. (The Rights to the Freedoms of Petition, Assembly, and Association),, Reva Siegel
52. Immodest Claims and Modest Contributions: Sexual Orientation in Comparative Constitutional Law, Kenji Yoshino and Michael Kavey
53. Group Rights in Comparative Constitutional Law: Culture, Economics, or Political Power?, Sujit Choudhry
54. Affirmative Action, Daniel Sabbagh
55. Bioethics and Basic Rights: Persons, Humans and Boundaries of Life, Judit Sandor
Part IX: Trends
56. Internationalization of Constitutional Law, Wen-Chen Chang and Jiunn-Rong Yeh
57. The EU's Unresolved Constitution, Neil Walker
58. The Constitutionalization of Public International Law, Erika de Wet
59. ECtHR Jurisprudence and the Constitutional Systems of Europe, Dean Spielmann
60. Militant Democracy, Jan-Werner Muller
61. Constitutionalism and Transitional Justice, Juan Mendez
62. Islam and the Constitutional Order, Chibli Mallat
63. Constitutional Transplants, Borrowing, and Migrations, Vlad Perju
64. The Use of Foreign Law in Constitutional Interpretation, Gabor Halmai