Comparative Matters

The Renaissance of Comparative Constitutional Law

AvRan Hirschl

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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Comparative study has emerged as the new frontier of constitutional law scholarship as well as an important aspect of constitutional adjudication. Increasingly, jurists, scholars, and constitution drafters worldwide are accepting that 'we are all comparativists now'. And yet, despite this tremendous renaissance, the 'comparative' aspect of the enterprise, as a method and a project, remains under-theorized and blurry. Fundamental questions concerning the very meaning and purpose of comparative constitutional inquiry, and how it is to be undertaken, are seldom asked, let alone answered. In this path-breaking book, Ran Hirschl addresses this gap by charting the intellectual history and analytical underpinnings of comparative constitutional inquiry, probing the various types, aims, and methodologies of engagement with the constitutive laws of others through the ages, and exploring how and why comparative constitutional inquiry has been and ought to be pursued by academics and jurists worldwide. Through an extensive exploration of comparative constitutional endeavours past and present, near and far, Hirschl shows how attitudes towards engagement with the constitutive laws of others reflect tensions between particularism and universalism as well as competing visions of who 'we' are as a political community. Drawing on insights from social theory, religion, history, political science, and public law, Hirschl argues for an interdisciplinary approach to comparative constitutionalism that is methodologically and substantively preferable to merely doctrinal accounts. The future of comparative constitutional studies, he contends, lies in relaxing the sharp divide between constitutional law and the social sciences.Comparative Matters makes a unique and welcome contribution to the comparative study of constitutions and constitutionalism, sharpening our understanding of the historical development, political parameters, epistemology, and methodologies of one of the most intellectually vibrant areas in contemporary legal scholarship.

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Utgivningsdatum:2014-08-14
Mått:163 x 241 x 22 mm
Vikt:632 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:318
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780198714514

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Ran Hirschl (PhD, Yale) is Professor of Political Science and Law, and holder of the Canada Research Chair in Constitutionalism, Democracy and Development at the University of Toronto. He is the author of three books: 'Towards Juristocracy: The Origins and Consequences of the New Constitutionalism' (Harvard University Press, 2004 and 2007), 'Constitutional Theocracy' (Harvard University Press, 2010) (which won the Mahoney Prize in Legal Theory), and 'Comparative Matters' (Oxford University Press, 2014), as well as over 75 articles and book chapters on comparative constitutional law, constitutional law and religion, and the intellectual history of comparative public law. Hirschl is a founding executive committee member of the International Society of Public Law, an editorial board member of the Journal of Law & Courts and the International Journal of Constitutional Law (I-CON), and the co-editor of a book series on comparative constitutional law and policy published by Cambridge UP.

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He - as elegant in his writings as convincing in his argumentation - invites the comparative lawyer to proceed methodologically beyond legal doctrine stricto sensu. Knowing that an age of legal pluralism requires a diverse and interdisciplinary, rather than rigorous but disciplinarily limited, methodology, one should follow this stimulating invitation with an open mind... Hirschls book sets an inspiring agenda for further research and gives proof that a roadmap can also be a masterpiece.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: The C Word ; 1. The View from the Bench: Where the Comparative Judicial Imagination Travels ; 2. Early Engagements with the Constitutive Laws of Others: Lessons from Pre-Modern Religion Law ; 3. Engaging the Constitutive Laws of Others: Necessities, Ideas, Interests ; 4. From Comparative Constitutional Law to Comparative Constitutional Studies ; 5. How Universal is Comparative Constitutional Law? ; 6. Case Selection and Research Design in Comparative Constitutional Studies ; Epilogue: Comparative Constitutional Law: Quo Vadis?