Defining the Field of Comparative Constitutional Law
By (Author) Vicki C. Jackson
Edited by Professor Mark Tushnet
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Praeger Publishers Inc
30th December 2002
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Political science and theory
342
Hardback
288
Width 156mm, Height 235mm
567g
Essays seeking to define the field of comparative constitutional law. Jackson, Tushnet, and their contributors, distinguished jurists and legal scholars from around the world, seek to define the field of constitutional law, sometimes expressly but more often by illustrating the way in which each writer thinks about comparative constitutional law. Viewed as a whole, the collection points to common constitutional themes even though how nations responded to these issues differed substantially based on different histories, traditions, and experiences. Three common themes emerge from the essays. First discussed are the relationships of constitutionalism and constitutional law to popular understandings and political contexts and their relationship to constitutional understandings and transformations. A second set of concerns revolve around dilemmas of equality. Third, explicit or implicit in virtually all of the essays is the theme that globalization as a phenomenon requires comparative constitutional study. Here is a thoughtful and stimulating collection that will be of value to legal scholars, students, and others involved with constitutional law issues.
Defining the Field of Comparative Constitutional Law is an important contribution to a rich tradition of public law scholarship on courts and constitutions in comparative perpective.-The Law and Politics Book Review
"Defining the Field of Comparative Constitutional Law is an important contribution to a rich tradition of public law scholarship on courts and constitutions in comparative perpective."-The Law and Politics Book Review
VICKI C. JACKSON is Professor of Law, Georgetown University. MARK TUSHNET is Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law, Georgetown University. Both have published extensively on constitutional law issues.