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Title

The foundations and traditions of constitutional amendment / edited by Richard Albert, Xenophon Contiades and Alkmene Fotiadou.

Publication

Oxford ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2019.

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Additional Authors

• Albert, Richard (Law professor)
• Kontiadēs, Xenophōn I.
• Phōtiadou, Alkmēnē

Description

xvi, 399 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

"This volume is designed to guide the emergence of comparative constitutional amendment as a distinct field of study in public law. Much of the recent scholarship in the field has been written by the scholars assembled in this volume. This book, like the field it hopes to shape, if not comparative alone; it is also doctrinal, historical and theoretical, and therefore offers a multiplicity of perspectives on a subject about which remains to be written. This book aspires to be the first to address comprehensively the new dimensions of the study of constitutional amendment, and will become a reference point for all acholars working on the subject. The volume covers all the topics where innovative work is being done, such as the notion of the people, the trend of empirical quantitative approaches to constitutional change, unamendability, sunrise clauses, constitutional referenda, the conventional divide bewteen constituent and constituted powers, among other important subjects. It creates a dialogue that cuts through these innovative conceptualisations and highlights scholarly disagreement and, in so doing, puts ideas to the test. The volume therefore captures the fierce ongoing debates on the relevant topics, it reveals the current trends and contested issues, and it offers a variety of arguments elaborated by prominent experts in the field. It will open the way for further dialogue"--

Series Statement

Hart studies in comparative public law ; volume 17

Uniform Title

Hart studies in comparative public law ; v. 17.

Subject

• Constitutional amendments
• Constitutional law
• Law reform
• 86.51 constitution
• Verfassungsreform
• Reform
• Amendments
• Comparative law
• Droit d'amendement (droit constitutionnel)
• Révision constitutionnelle

Genre/Form

Constitutional amendments.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction. The state of the art in constitutional amendment / Richard Albert -- Amendment power, constituent power, and popular sovereignty : linking unamendability and amendment procedures / Yaniv Roznai -- Constitutional theory and cognitive estrangement : beyond revolutions, amendments and constitutional moments / Zoran Oklopcic -- Constraints on constitutional amendment powers / Oran Doyle -- Comment on Doyle's Constraints on constitutional amendment powers / Mark Tushnet -- Constituting the amendment power : a framework for comparative amendment law / Thomaz Pereira -- Sieyès : the spirit of constitutional democracy? / Luisa Fernanda García López -- Revolutionary reform in Venezuela : electoral rules and historical narratives in the creation of the 1999 Constitution / Joshua Braver -- 'Revolutionary reform' and the seduction of constitutionalism / Juliano Zaiden Benvindo -- Constitutional sunrise / Sofia Ranchordás -- Constitutional change and interest group politics : Ireland's children's rights referendum / Oran Doyle and David Kenny -- Amendment-metrics : the good, the bad and the frequently amended constitution / Xenophon Contiades and Alkmene Fotiadou -- Comment on Amendment-metrics : the good, the bad and the frequently amended constitution / James E. Fleming -- Constituting 'the people' : the paradoxical place of the formal amendment procedure in Australian constitutionalism / Lael K. Weis -- Hard amendment cases in Canada / Kate Glover -- Formal amendment rules and constitutional endurance : the strange case of the Commonwealth Caribbean / Derek O'Brien -- The French people's role in amending the constitution : a French constitutional analysis from a pure legal perspective / Jean-Philippe Derosier -- The implication of conflation of normal and 'constitutional politics' on constitutional change in Africa / Duncan Okubasu -- Direct democracy and constitutional change in the US : institutional learning from state laboratories / Jurgen Goossens -- Conclusion. The emergence of comparative constitutional amendment as a new discipline : towards a paradigm shift / Xenophon Contiades and Alkmene Fotiadou.

ISBN

• 9781509908257
• 1509908250
• 9781509934638
• 1509934634
• 9781509908271 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781509908264 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• ocn959885813
• SCSB-9732792

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library