Contents

Contributors

Table of cases

Introduction

Mark Tushnet

PART I General issues

1 Constitutions

Yasuo Hasebe and Cesare Pinelli

2 Constitutions embedded in different legal systems

Thomas Fleiner and Cheryl Saunders

3 International relations and international law

Anne Peters and Ulrich K Preuss

4 Constitutions and legitimacy over time

Catherine Dupré and Jiunn-rong Yeh

5 Constitution-writing processes

Jennifer Widner and Xenophon Contiades

PART II Structures

6 Systems of government

Denis Baranger and Christina Murray

7 Emergency powers

Victor V Ramraj and Menaka Guruswamy

8 The judiciary and constitutional review

Albert HY Chen and Miguel Poiares Maduro

9 Justiciability

Mark Tushnet and Juan F González-Bertomeu

10 Administrative bureaucracy

Janet McLean with Mark Tushnet

11 Elections and electoral systems in constitutional regimes

Mahendra Pal Singh

12 Federalism and autonomy

Lidija R Basta Fleiner and Jean-François Gaudreault-DesBiens

13 Minority rights

Solomon Dersso and Francesco Palermo

14 Horizontal effect/state action

Colm O’Cinneide and Manfred Stelzer

PART III Rights

1. Integrity

15 ‘Human dignity’ as a constitutional doctrine

Margit Cohn and Dieter Grimm

16 The limits of punishment

Martin Scheinin and Denise Meyerson

2. Communication rights

17 Ancient and modern: access to information and constitutional governance

Thomas Bull and Hugh Corder

18 Freedom of expression and association

Iain Currie

19 Freedom of religion and religion–state relations

W Cole Durham, Jr and Carolyn Evans

3. Due process

20 Procedural fairness generally

Sophie Boyron and Wendy Lacey

21 Rights in the criminal process: a case study of convergence and disclosure rights

Máximo Langer and Kent Roach

4. Non-discrimination

22 General provisions dealing with equality

Brun-Otto Bryde and Michael Ashley Stein

23 Sites of constitutional struggle for women’s equality

Ruth Rubio-Marín and Wen-Chen Chang

24 Race and ethnicity discrimination

Patrick Macklem and Adrien K Wing

25 Affirmative action

Robert J Cottrol and Megan Davis

26 Minorities and group rights

Michael M Karayanni and Roberto Gargarella

5. Rights and society

27 Rights of non-citizens

Atsushi Kondo and Dragoljub Popović

28 Proprietary constitutionalism

Jeremy Webber and Kirsty Gover

29 Fundamental social rights

George Katrougalos and Paul O’Connell

30 Linguistic and cultural rights

Bipin Adhikari and Carlos Viver Pi-Sunyer

31 Environmental rights and future generations

Hong Sik Cho and Ole W Pedersen

PART IV New challenges

32 Asylum and refugees

Michelle Foster and Jonathan Klaaren

33 The competing effect of national uniqueness and comparative influences on constitutional practice

Zaid Al-Ali and Arun K Thiruvengadam

34 Multicultural societies and migration

Pierre Bosset, Anna Gamper and Theo Öhlinger

35 Constitutions, populations and demographic change

Brian Opeskin and Enyinna Nwauche

36 Supranational organizations and their impact on national constitutions

Markus Böckenförde and Daniel Sabsay

37 New technologies and constitutional law

Thomas Fetzer and Christopher S Yoo

Index