New Releases:
By Surendra Malik and ...
Click on TITLE to choose available options.
By Surendra Malik and ...
Rs. 48,060.00 Rs. 38,448.00
By Surendra Malik and ...
Click on TITLE to choose available options.
By Surendra Malik and ...
Rs. 37,075.00 Rs. 29,660.00
By Pratima Narayan
Click on TITLE to choose available options.
By Pratima Narayan
Click on TITLE to choose available options.
|
Product Details:
Format: Paperback / softback Publisher: Princeton University Press Language: English Dimensions: 23.00 X 0.79 X 15.00 Shipping Weight: 0.570(Kg) Publisher Code: 9780691144047 Date Added: 2018-08-09 Search Category: International Jurisdiction: International Publish Country: United States |
Overview:
The Judge as Political Theorist examines opinions by constitutional courts in liberal democracies to better understand the logic and nature of constitutional review. David Robertson argues that the constitutional judge's role is nothing like that of the legislator or chief executive, or even the ordinary judge. Rather, constitutional judges spell out to society the implications--on the ground--of the moral and practical commitments embodied in the nation's constitution. Constitutional review, in other words, is a form of applied political theory. Robertson takes an in-depth look at constitutional decision making in Germany, France, the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Canada, and South Africa, with comparisons throughout to the United States, where constitutional review originated. He also tackles perhaps the most vexing problem in constitutional law today--how and when to limit the rights of citizens in order to govern. As traditional institutions of moral authority have lost power, constitutional judges have stepped into the breach, radically altering traditional understandings of what courts can and should do.
Robertson demonstrates how constitutions are more than mere founding documents laying down the law of the land, but increasingly have become statements of the values and principles a society seeks to embody. Constitutional judges, in turn, see it as their mission to transform those values into political practice and push for state and society to live up to their ideals.
|
Table Of Contents:
Preface ix Chapter One: The Nature and Function of Judicial Review 1 Chapter Two: Germany: Dignity and Democracy 40 Chapter Three: Eastern Europe: (Re)Establishing the Rule of Law 83 Chapter Four: France: Purely Abstract Review 143 Chapter Five: Canada: Imposing Rights on the Common Law 187 Chapter Six: South Africa: Defining a New Society 226 Chapter Seven: Tests of Unconstitutionality and Discrimination 281 Chapter Eight: Conclusions: Constitutional Jurists as Political Theorists 347 Cases Cited 385 Bibliography 393 Index 407
|
|
|
|
YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE:
|
By Croce, Mariano
Rs.16799.00Rs.14279.00
|
|
By Cohen, Stanley
Rs.2759.00Rs.2345.00
|
|
By Waldron, Jeremy
Rs.5159.00Rs.4385.00
|
|
By Anthony De Jasay
Rs. 895.00
|
|
By Joost Pauwelyn (Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva)
Rs. 2399.00
|
|
By Stephen Cretney
Rs. 10900.00
|
|
MOST RECOMMENDED
|
By EBC
Click on TITLE to choose available options.
|
|
By C.K. Takwani
Click on TITLE to choose available options.
|
|
By Dr. Murlidhar Chatu
Rs. 495.00 Rs. 421.00
|
|
By Muthuswamy, Brinda,
Click on TITLE to choose available options.
|
|
By Suranjan Chakravart
Click on TITLE to choose available options.
|
|
By EBC
Click on TITLE to choose available options.
|
|
|