Présentation de l’éditeur

Comparative constitutionalism emerged in its current form against the backdrop of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War. As that backdrop recedes into the past, it is being replaced by a more multi-polar and confusing world, and the current state of the discipline of comparative constitutionalism reflects this fragmentation and uncertainty. This has opened up space for new, more varied, and increasingly critical voices seeking to improve the project of democratic constitutionalism. But it also raises questions: What of the past, if anything, is worth preserving? Which more recent parts should be defining of the field?

In this context, this book asks which are - or should be - the canonical texts of comparative constitutionalism. The theoretical scope of the contributions is broad and ambitious, selecting primary material from beyond the existing textbooks to engage the concept of a canon. This framework provides significant insights about inclusion and exclusion, and proposes candidates for canonical and anti-canonical materials. The result is a wide-ranging discussion, among many voices, of how particular judgments and other primary texts have shaped or should shape our understanding of central elements of democratic constitutionalism from a comparative law perspective. This book is not a prescription of one universal understanding, but a broader conversation about the field and the future of constitutional democracy.

Contributors:

Frederick Beiser, Syracuse University, New York, USA.
Shira Billet, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York, USA.
Martin Bollacher, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.
Sandra Leonie Field, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Michael N. Forster, Bonn University, Germany.
Michah Gottlieb, New York University, New York, USA.
Warren Zev Harvey, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
Jonathan Israel, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
Katharina T. Kraus, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Tracie Matysik, University of Texas, Austin, USA.
Yitzhak Y. Melamed, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Michael A. Rosenthal, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Yoav Schaefer, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA.
Sandra Shapshay, City University of New York, New York, USA.
Dennis Vanden Auweele, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

Sommaire

1. Introduction, Sujit Choudhry , Michaela Hailbronner and Mattias Kumm

Part I Foundations

2. A Global Constitutional Canon v Quasi-Canon? Towards a More Informed and Inclusive Comparative Constitutionalism, Rosalind Dixon
3. The Jurisprudences of Canons of Comparative Constitutional Law, Mark Tushnet
4. Emmanuel Sieyès, 'What is the Third Estate?' (1789), Victor Ferreres Comella
5. A Haitian Turn, Günter Frankenberg
6. Exemplary but not Canonical: The South African Voters Rights Cases, David Dyzenhaus
7. A Constitutional Canon for Africa, James Fowkes
8. The Mexican Constitution of 1917: A Canon for Latin American Constitutionalism, Ana Micaela Alterio and Roberto Niembro Ortega

Part II Structures

9. Separation of Powers, Kevin Y. L. Tan
10. Global Canons, Term Limits, and the Constituent Power Theory, Sergio Verdugo
11. The Canon of "Constitutional Unamendability" and "Basic Structure Doctrine" in Global Constitutional Studies, Chien-Chih Lin and Wen-Chen Chang
12. The Secession and Constitutionalism Canon, Yonatan Fessha

Part III Rights

13. The Questions of Dignity, Marcela Prieto Rudolphy
14. Lüth and the 'Objective System of Values': From 'Limited Government' Towards an Autonomy- Based Conception of Constitutional Rights, Kai Möller, Lüth
15. Global Proportionality Canons from Latin America, Francisca Pou Giménez
16. Freedom of Expression and the Constitutional Canon, Adrienne Stone
17. Freedom of Religion, Jaclyn L. Neo
18. Comparative Constitutional Law of Property, David Schneiderman
19. The Shifting Canon of Constitutional Equality, Renata Uitz
20. Gender Discrimination and Canons for Constitutional Review, Yoon Jin Shin
21. The Canons of Social and Economic Rights, Katharine G. Young
22. The Unsettled Canon of Social Rights Enforcement in Latin America, David E. Landau
23. The Due Process Canon, Tom Ginsburg
24. Drawing Their Own Boundaries: Constitutional Interpretation and the Constitutional Role of Courts, Catherine O'Regan
25. Techniques of Judicial Avoidance, Richard Albert

Part IV Beyond the State and the Individual

26. The City as an Anti-Canonical Concept in Constitutional Law (and Recent Attempts to Change That), Ran Hirschl
27. The Canon of Nature Rights, Alexandra Huneeus
28. Canonizing the Corporation: Liberal, Social, and Transformative Varieties of Corporate Constitutionalism, Michael Riegner
29. Act of State and Diplomatic Protection in the Modern Constitution: Two Case Studies, Phoebe Okowa
30. The Hollow Canon of Transnational Constitutional Engagement, Vlad Perju