Edited by Gary Jacobsohn, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin and Miguel Schor, Drake University Law School, US

Acclaim for the first edition:

• Contents1 Introduction: the comparative turn in constitutional theory and the crisis ofdemocratic erosion 1Gary Jacobsohn and Miguel SchorPART I CONSTITUTIONALISM AND DEMOCRATIC EROSION2 Illiberal constitutionalism: viable alternative or nemesis of the modernconstitutional ideal? 23Michel Rosenfeld3 Transitional justice, transitional constitutionalism and constitutionalculture 43Gábor Halmai4 Militant democracy and constitutional identity 64Jan -Werner Müller5 Race and American constitutional exceptionalism 84Mark A. GraberPART II CONSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE AND RIGHTS6 American constitutional exceptionalism and democratic erosion 114Miguel Schor7 What is judicial supremacy? 138Stephen Gardbaum8 Federalism and constitutional theory 164Stephen Tierney9 The constitutional significance of human dignity: what exactly? 184Jacob Weinrib10 Social rights in comparative constitutional theory 204Jeff King11 Text and democracy: theoretical approaches to religious liberty cases in theUnited States Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights 229Howard Schweber12 Consensus, conflict, and complementarity: a global perspective on thefreedom of expression 255Ronald J. Krotoszynski Jr.PART IIICONSTITUTIONAL INTERPRETATION13 Legal pragmatism and comparative constitutional law 290David Landau14 Beyond the principle of proportionality 313Victor Ferreres Comella15 The unwritten constitution 332Janet McLeanPART IVCONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE16 Constitutional theory in a comparative context 352Adrienne Stone and Lael K. Weis17 ‘We the people’, ‘oui, the people’ and the collective body: perceptions ofconstituent power 369Yaniv Roznai18 Amendment theory and constituent power 393Mark Tushnet19 Theorising about formal constitutional change: the case of Latin America 410Joel I. Colón-Ríos20 Anchoring and sailing: contrasting imperatives of constitutional revolution 433Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn21 Reception, context, and identity: a theory of cross-national jurisprudence 455Heinz Klug

Edited by Gary Jacobsohn, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin and Miguel Schor, Drake University Law School, US

Acclaim for the first edition:

• Contents1 Introduction: the comparative turn in constitutional theory and the crisis ofdemocratic erosion 1Gary Jacobsohn and Miguel SchorPART I CONSTITUTIONALISM AND DEMOCRATIC EROSION2 Illiberal constitutionalism: viable alternative or nemesis of the modernconstitutional ideal? 23Michel Rosenfeld3 Transitional justice, transitional constitutionalism and constitutionalculture 43Gábor Halmai4 Militant democracy and constitutional identity 64Jan -Werner Müller5 Race and American constitutional exceptionalism 84Mark A. GraberPART II CONSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE AND RIGHTS6 American constitutional exceptionalism and democratic erosion 114Miguel Schor7 What is judicial supremacy? 138Stephen Gardbaum8 Federalism and constitutional theory 164Stephen Tierney9 The constitutional significance of human dignity: what exactly? 184Jacob Weinrib10 Social rights in comparative constitutional theory 204Jeff King11 Text and democracy: theoretical approaches to religious liberty cases in theUnited States Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights 229Howard Schweber12 Consensus, conflict, and complementarity: a global perspective on thefreedom of expression 255Ronald J. Krotoszynski Jr.PART IIICONSTITUTIONAL INTERPRETATION13 Legal pragmatism and comparative constitutional law 290David Landau14 Beyond the principle of proportionality 313Victor Ferreres Comella15 The unwritten constitution 332Janet McLeanPART IVCONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE16 Constitutional theory in a comparative context 352Adrienne Stone and Lael K. Weis17 ‘We the people’, ‘oui, the people’ and the collective body: perceptions ofconstituent power 369Yaniv Roznai18 Amendment theory and constituent power 393Mark Tushnet19 Theorising about formal constitutional change: the case of Latin America 410Joel I. Colón-Ríos20 Anchoring and sailing: contrasting imperatives of constitutional revolution 433Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn21 Reception, context, and identity: a theory of cross-national jurisprudence 455Heinz Klug

Edited by Gary Jacobsohn, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin and Miguel Schor, Drake University Law School, US

Acclaim for the first edition:

• Contents1 Introduction: the comparative turn in constitutional theory and the crisis ofdemocratic erosion 1Gary Jacobsohn and Miguel SchorPART I CONSTITUTIONALISM AND DEMOCRATIC EROSION2 Illiberal constitutionalism: viable alternative or nemesis of the modernconstitutional ideal? 23Michel Rosenfeld3 Transitional justice, transitional constitutionalism and constitutionalculture 43Gábor Halmai4 Militant democracy and constitutional identity 64Jan -Werner Müller5 Race and American constitutional exceptionalism 84Mark A. GraberPART II CONSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE AND RIGHTS6 American constitutional exceptionalism and democratic erosion 114Miguel Schor7 What is judicial supremacy? 138Stephen Gardbaum8 Federalism and constitutional theory 164Stephen Tierney9 The constitutional significance of human dignity: what exactly? 184Jacob Weinrib10 Social rights in comparative constitutional theory 204Jeff King11 Text and democracy: theoretical approaches to religious liberty cases in theUnited States Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights 229Howard Schweber12 Consensus, conflict, and complementarity: a global perspective on thefreedom of expression 255Ronald J. Krotoszynski Jr.PART IIICONSTITUTIONAL INTERPRETATION13 Legal pragmatism and comparative constitutional law 290David Landau14 Beyond the principle of proportionality 313Victor Ferreres Comella15 The unwritten constitution 332Janet McLeanPART IVCONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE16 Constitutional theory in a comparative context 352Adrienne Stone and Lael K. Weis17 ‘We the people’, ‘oui, the people’ and the collective body: perceptions ofconstituent power 369Yaniv Roznai18 Amendment theory and constituent power 393Mark Tushnet19 Theorising about formal constitutional change: the case of Latin America 410Joel I. Colón-Ríos20 Anchoring and sailing: contrasting imperatives of constitutional revolution 433Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn21 Reception, context, and identity: a theory of cross-national jurisprudence 455Heinz Klug