Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments The Limits of Amendment Powers

by Roznai, Yaniv

• ISBN13: 9780198840664
• ISBN10: 0198840667
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2019-04-07
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Yaniv Roznai, Senior Lecturer, Radzyner School of Law, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC)

Yaniv Roznai is a senior lecturer at the Radzyner Law School of the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC). He specializes in comparative constitutional law, constitutional theory, legisprudence, and public international law. Roznai holds a PhD and LLM from the London School of Economics, and LLB and BA degrees in law and government from the IDC. He is also an elected board member and secretary general of the Israeli Association of Public Law. He has been a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions, University of Haifa, and at the Hauser Global Law School, New York University, and a visiting researcher at the Program in Law and Public Affairs, Princeton University. This book is based upon his PhD for which he was awarded the 2014 Thesis Prize of the European Group of Public Law.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I: Comparative Constitutional Unamendability
1. Explicit Constitutional Unamendability
2. Implicit Constitutional Unamendability
3. Supra-Constitutional Unamendability
Part II: Towards a Theory of Constitutional Unamendability
4. The Nature of Constitutional Amendment Powers
5. The Scope of Constitutional Amendment Powers
6. The Spectrum of Constitutional Amendment Powers
Part III: Enforcing Constitutional Unamendability
7. Understanding Judicial Review of Constitutional Amendments
8. Exercising Judicial Review of Constitutional Amendments
9. Conclusion
Appendix: Explicit Unamendability in World Constitutions