Global Perspectives on Constitutional Law

Global Perspectives on Constitutional Law
Author: Vikram Amar
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2009
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0195328116

The authors introduce students to the various ways that nations other than the United States resolve contemporary constitutional questions. Covering both structural issues and individual rights, each chapter presents foreign case materials on a particular topic, comparing U.S and other nations' laws.

Global Perspectives on Subsidiarity

Global Perspectives on Subsidiarity
Author: Michelle Evans
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2014-05-16
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9401788103

Global Perspectives on Subsidiarity is the first book of its kind exclusively devoted to the principle of subsidiarity. It sheds new light on the principle and explores and develops the many applications of the principle of subsidiarity. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the principle in all its facets, from its philosophical origins in the writings of Aristotle and Aquinas, to its development in Catholic social doctrine, and its emergence as a key principle in European Union Law. This book explores the relationship between subsidiarity and concepts such as sphere sovereignty and social pluralism. It analyses subsidiarity in light of globalisation, federalism, democracy, individual rights and welfare, and discusses subsidiarity and the Australian, Brazilian and German Constitutions.​

Feminist Constitutionalism

Feminist Constitutionalism
Author: Beverley Baines
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 495
Release: 2012-04-16
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0521761573

Explores the relationship between constitutional law and feminism, offering a spectrum of approaches and analysis set across a wide range of topics.

Consequential Courts

Consequential Courts
Author: Diana Kapiszewski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 453
Release: 2013-04-08
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107026539

Maps the roles in governance that courts are undertaking and how they matter in the political life of these nations.

Global Constitutionalism in International Legal Perspective

Global Constitutionalism in International Legal Perspective
Author: Christine EJ Schwöbel
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2011-03-21
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004191151

Drawing on critical theories within and without the international legal discipline, this book offers a fresh approach to the debate on global constitutionalism – an approach that attempts to get beyond the liberal democratic trajectories in which it is currently entrenched.

Democratic Crisis and Global Constitutional Law

Democratic Crisis and Global Constitutional Law
Author: Christopher Thornhill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2021-01-28
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108496083

Explains the current weakness of democratic polities by addressing paradoxes in constitutional democracy and its theoretical foundations.

The Global South and Comparative Constitutional Law

The Global South and Comparative Constitutional Law
Author: Philipp Dann
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2020-10-30
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0192590758

This volume makes a timely intervention into a field which is marked by a shift from unipolar to multipolar order and a pluralization of constitutional law. It addresses the theoretical and epistemic foundations of Southern constitutionalism and discusses its distinctive themes, such as transformative constitutionalism, inequality, access to justice, and authoritarian legality. This title has three goals. First, to pluralize the conversation around constitutional law. While most scholarship focuses on liberal forms of Western constitutions, this book attempts to take comparative law's promise to cover all major legal systems of the world seriously; second, to reflect critically on the epistemic framework and the distribution of epistemic powers in the scholarly community of comparative constitutional law; third, to reflect on - and where necessary, test - the notion of the Global South in comparative constitutional law. This book breaks down the theories, themes, and global picture of comparative constitutionalism in the Global South. What emerges is a rich tapestry of constitutional experiences that pluralizes comparative constitutional law as both a discipline and a field of knowledge.