Constitutionalism Under Extreme Conditions

Richard Albert, the William Stamps Farish Professor in Law and Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin, has published over 85 scholarly works on constitutionalism, including his most recent book “Constitutional Amendments: Making, Breaking, and Changing Constitutions” (OUP 2019). He has held visiting faculty appointments at Yale University, the University of Toronto, FGV Direito SP in Brazil, the Externado University of Colombia, and the Interdisciplinary Center in Israel. A graduate of Yale, Oxford and Harvard, he is a former law clerk to the Chief Justice of Canada, a founding Co-Editor of I-CONnect, and the founding Director of the International Forum on the Future of Constitutionalism.  Yaniv Roznai, Associate Professor at the Harry Radzyner Law School, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, is the leading authority on the theory and doctrine of unconstitutional constitutional amendment. He is a graduate of IDC and the London School of Economics, where he obtained his PhD that was awarded the European Group of Public Law’s Thesis Prize. He has held fellowships at Princeton University, New York University and the University of Haifa. His books include “Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments - The Limits of Amendment Powers” (OUP, 2017), which was awarded the Inaugural International Society for Public Law (ICONS) Book Prize, and "Constitutional Revolution" (Yale University Press, 2020) (with Gary Jacobsohn).

• Introduction.- Part I: Emergency, Exception and Normalcy.- Chapter 1. From Institutional Sovereignty to Constitutional Mindset: Rethinking the Domestication of the State of Exception in the Age of Normalization.- Chapter 2.Judicial Review and Emergencies in Post-Marcos Philippines.- Chapter 3. Constitution and Law as Instruments for Normalising Abnormalcy: The Sri Lankan and Indian Experience.- Chapter 4. Political Emergencies as Challenges to the Impartiality of Public Law.- Part II: Terrorism and Warfare.- Chapter 5. Human Rights in Times of Terror – A Judicial Point of View.- Chapter 6. Detaining Unlawful Combatants in Israel: A Matter of Misiniterpretation?.- Chapter 7. The Law Governing the Rights of Enemy Aliens’ Access to Courts.- Chapter 8. Emergencies and Constitutional Rights in a Time of Terror Threat in the Czech Republic: Do We Need a New Dimension of Emergency?.- Part III: Constitution-Making and Constitutional Change.- Chapter 9. Authoritative Constitution-Making in theName of Democracy?.- Chapter 10. Again: From 1867 to Today, Making a Constitution Under an Elite Umbrella in Turkey.- Chapter 11. Constitution-Making, Political Transition and Reconciliation in Tunisia and Egypt: A Comparative Perspective.- Chapter 12. Security Sector Reform in Timor-Leste After the Constitutional Exception.- Part IV: Constitutionalism for Divided Societies.- Chapter 13. The Constitutionalism of Emergency: Multinationalism Behind Asymmetrical Constitutional Arrangements.- Chapter 14. The Paradox of Territorial Autonomy: How Subnational Representation Leads to Secessionist Preferences.- Chapter 15. Entrenching Hegemony in Cyprus: The Doctrine of Necessity and the Principle of Bicommunality.- Part V: Public Health, Financial and Economic Crises.- Chapter 16. The ‘Judicialization’ of Emergency: The Case of the Eurozone Crisis.- Chapter 17. Financial Crisis as a New Genus of Constitutional Emergency?.- Chapter 18. Public Health Emergencies and Constitutionalism Between the National and the International.- Chapter 19. Conclusion.