Assessing Constitutional Performance (Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1316608352 ISBN 13: 9781316608357

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2016

Synopsis

This volume challenges the concept of constitutional success, a bedrock assumption of comparative constitutional scholarship.

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About the Authors

Tom Ginsburg is Leo Spitz Professor of International Law at the University of Chicago, where he also holds an appointment in the Political Science Department. He currently co-directs the Comparative Constitutions Project, an NSF-funded data set cataloging the world's constitutions since 1789. His books include Judicial Reputation: A Comparative Theory (2015) (with Nuno Garoupa), The Endurance of National Constitutions (2009) (with Zachary Elkins and James Melton), and Judicial Review in New Democracies (2003). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Aziz Z. Huq is the Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. His scholarship on constitutional law, criminal procedure, and policing is widely published in leading law reviews and peer-reviewed journals.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1316608352
• ISBN 13: 9781316608357
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 446
• Editor: Ginsburg Tom