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Constitution-making and transnational legal order /

"his common way of conceiving of constitution-making, however, is simply wrong. It ignores the long history of transnational flow of ideas about constitutions and how they should be made. Indeed, the very idea of a formal written constitution is foreign in many parts of the world, including in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shaffer,Gregory,Ed
Other Authors: Shaffer, Gregory C., Ginsburg, Tom, Halliday, Terence C.
Format: Printed Book
Published: UK, CUP, 2019.
Series:Comparative constitutional law and policy
Subjects:
Law
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Constitution-making as transnational legal ordering Tom Ginsburg, Terence C. Halliday and Gregory Shaffer; 2. Constitutional advice and transnational legal order Tom Ginsburg; 3. A transnational actor on a dramatic stage - Sir Ivor Jennings and the manipulation of Westminster style democracy: the case of Pakistan Harshan Kumarasingham; 4. Constitutions in world society: a new measure of human rights Colin Beck, John W. Meyer, Ralph I. Hosoki and Gili S. Drori; 5. Constitutional dialects and transnational legal orders David Law; 6. Transnational constitution-making: the contribution of the Venice Commission on law and democracy Paul Craig; 7. Worst practices and the transnational legal order (or how to build a constitutional 'democratorship' in plain sight) Kim Lane Scheppele; 8. Democratic erosion and constitution-making moments : the role of transnational legal norms David E. Landau; 9. The possibilities and limits of a constitution-making transnational legal order: the case of Chile Javier Couso.