Order from Transfer: Comparative Constitutional Design and Legal Culture (Studies in Comparative Law and Legal Culture series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1781952108 ISBN 13: 9781781952108

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

Constitutional orders and legal regimes are established and changed through the importing and exporting of ideas and ideologies, norms, institutions and arguments. The contributions in this book discuss this assumption and address theoretical questions, methodological problems and political projects connected with the transfer of constitutions and law.

Some of the chapters focus on the pathways, risks and side-effects of legal-constitutional transfers in specific situations, such as postcolonial societies and occupied territories. Others follow law beyond the official arenas into systems of legal pluralism, while others analyze how experimentalism generates hybrid constitutional orders.

This interdisciplinary, multi-jurisdictional study will appeal to researchers, academics and advanced students in the fields of comparative constitutional law, comparative law and legal theory.

Contributors: H. Alviar García, U. Baxi, P. Dann, J. Eckert, G. Frankenberg, R. Gargarella, F. Hanschmann, J. Hendry, S. Kadelbach, N. Markard, R. Michaels, H.K. Prempeh, R. Rubio Marín, M. Seckelmann, T. Tohidipur

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Edited by Günter Frankenberg, Emeritus Professor of Public Law, Philosophy of Law and Comparative Law, Institute for Public Law, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1781952108
• ISBN 13: 9781781952108
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Frankenberg Günter